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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
It's because he was elected with a historically low % of the vote. Few wanted him at the election, few want him now.

>>throwa+Xi
Most don't want any of the options presented to them. Almost all the parties don't really serve the electorate, so a large number of people are abstaining.

I appreciate this in an anecdotal but I've spoken to quite a few people I know in my family, that saw it as their civil duty to vote and they told all told me some variation of "there is nobody worth voting for", "I don't think it matters who I vote for".

>>9Jolly+et
The UK is FPTP. Reform split the previously unified conservative vote so labour won with a historically low %.

>>throwa+3I
Total Reform + Conservative vote was at historical lows as a percentage of the electorate.

>>ericho+ST
That might be true, but the votes (not seats, first past the post, almost guarantees people aren't represented): Labour: 9.7M Conservatives 6.8M Reform: 4.1M Liberal Democrats 3.5M

The point clearly stands that had Reform not been a thing, 2024 would have been a conservative landslide.

What we got was a Labour landslide, what we should have got was some coalition.