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>>robthe+(OP)
This is how you govern from a position of unpopularity.

The government knows they’re on the wrong side of many issues, to the point they know they can’t win an open debate.

So media control, regulation by enforcement, and institutional control becomes the focus of effort.

>>spaceb+ab
This has been ongoing for a long time, its not at all specific to this government.

>>justin+Kb
Huh? Starmer is the least popular Prime Minister, I believe, ever.

>>ericho+vd
He wins or draws on every measure of unpopularity, other than YouGov net satisfaction where Liz Truss still beats him.

>>spaceb+Jd
It's a problem with pretty much anyone. Things are bad from a fundamental structural failings for decades, elect new person, don't see immediate turn-around, they're massively unpopular.

The only way out of this is if you successfully blame $marginalised_group for the peoples problems. Or spend decades undoing the damage, but nobody ever gets decades in power.

>>iso163+if
Some of it is deliberately attempting to appeal to Reform voters, in ways which have infuriated Labour supporters while not winning any Reform support.