Enjoy your tax rises.

[mickd1961]

Or alternatively, maybe public sector workers have been shafted by the previous government for 14 years and felt they've had no choice but to strike.

We criminally undervalue and underpay our nurses, teachers, doctors etc. I'm not against a pay increase for these people. I'm not sure why others are?

Considering the waste of the previous government, a pay rise for nurses should be a given.

The Tories deserve to be wiped out for a generation or more, and this idea that they're good with the economy be highlighted for the myth that it is. I'm so glad to see the back of them and some competent, responsible people now running things.

As for tax rises, its inevitable. You can't blow billions as the Tories have and not have a black hole at the end of it. I think you should look closer to home for the cause of them.

The only criticism of Labour is that they would have already known about this and they should have been more transparent with the public pre-election. But in reality, they have got little choice but to raise taxes. The Tories (as usual) have screwed the country into the ground.

I’d be interested to know how many extra thousands of £’s a year yourself or anyone else on here is happy to hand over to Labour each year?

[WBA123]

I’d be interested to know how many extra thousands of £’s a year yourself or anyone else on here is happy to hand over to Labour each year?

As someone who accused me on another post of swerving or not answering a question directly, here's my answer...

I don't mind paying more taxes, but I want value for money for it. I want good public services. Under the last Labour Government we got that, you could argue they left us in debt - but we had an excellent NHS, thousands more police officers, doctors, nurses, record low waiting times etc.

The value for money we have got from the Tories is poor. Look at the state of the country they left behind, its hard enough to get a GP appointment now. They've wasted billions of our money.

So, as you've conveniently not answered my original question. Do you prefer the alternative to this? Tories, Doctor strikes, train strikes etc.