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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
There are good options I think for most people. I did not like labors party policy, so I voted for the Lib Dems in a large labour area, did it achieve anything for them? No, did I do my civil duty?

I am sure many green voters felt the same way for many years and now they stand a decent chance of getting many seats!

>>vablin+I02
Your best option in your area was a protest vote, but you still believe there are good options. To me that sounds like cognitive dissonance.

I don't vote. There are many reasons I don't vote. However the biggest reason I don't vote is that the whole premise or at least how it is presented to you is false. The way it is presented to you both in school, media etc. is that you are supposed to read the manifesto, consider the candidates arguments and history etc. etc.

People don't do that, they vote for their team. People have their political teams, much like Premiership Football it often comes down to the "Reds vs the Blues" (literally Man U vs Man City).