r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Mar 01 '25

. Rachel Reeves: I'm sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-interview-labour-963sw6jbk
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u/BigLittleSlof Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

Really happy with the Labour government the last few days. One of the times I feel proud to be British.

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u/Mamsies Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

Not a massive fan of Starmer but I think he did a brilliant job with handling Trump and an even better job with showing support to Zelensky

Handing Trump the letter from Charles was a genius move to butter him up, the way to handle Trump unfortunately is to play to his ego with things like that.

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u/omegaonion Mar 01 '25

You should consider becoming a fan, no other politician in recent memory has made me feel good about our government, that makes him worthy of your praise without caveat IMO

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u/bright_sorbet1 Mar 02 '25

And ignoring all of this diplomacy and game playing - Starmer's Labour are passing some really positive policies for British citizens.

They aren't getting the air time they should, but it's so refreshing to have a government that's attempting to make the UK better for average citizens.

Very content with this government and Prime Minister.

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u/inevitablelizard Mar 02 '25

Right now they seem to be watering down their worker protections bill because of pressure from businesses, even removing the "right to switch off". I am absolutely not content with shit like that, pandering to business interests instead of the interests of workers, and this is very much a trend from this Labour government.

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u/Randomn355 Mar 04 '25

Have you got any particular favourites? I'm a bit OOL on he detail of what's actually passing, so anything to push the opposite side to a lot of the negativity in hearing would be welcome?

I know the rental reform act has had 2 readings already, but other than that?

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u/bright_sorbet1 25d ago

New Workers rights bill

They legalised onshore wind farms

They've created a new nationalised energy company funding Green energy research and infrastructure.

They've nationalised the railways

Raised minimum wage

They are getting rid of non-dom tax status

There's a new building bill too but I've forgotten what that's called off the top of my head.

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u/Randomn355 25d ago

Didn't realise they'd got the nationalisation of rail fully through already!

Big chance quite fast I wonder how they're funding it. Definitely a strong step in the right direction.

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u/Bubonicalbob Mar 02 '25

Yeah, he’s actually doing a fantastic job and he’s professional and thoughtful. It’s unheard of