"There has been a familiar feeling in the air for a while, but not one I could identify until last week, when it finally settled. It is a sense that this Labour government is just as terminally dysfunctional and directionless as its predecessor. I am beginning to feel the same sense of frustration, confusion, anger and depletion that I carried through all those years of Conservative government."
"The result is that government has been reduced to the same intrusive and meaningless background noise: Keir Starmer droning on about phase two or delivery, delivery, delivery. There is a sense that it's pointless to insist that Labour can do better, be better because it is structurally incapable of doing so. The overwhelming feeling under this government is sometimes that of drift, at other times of heading at speed towards a crash."
A pervasive sense of dysfunction and directionlessness pervades the Labour government, mirroring failures of the previous Conservative administration. Persistent pettiness, authoritarian instincts, performative cruelty on immigration, flag posturing, empty slogans, and constant reshuffles create a reboot cycle that fails to deliver. Government has become intrusive background noise, with emphasis on 'phase two' and relentless promises of delivery without substantive progress. Structural incapacity fosters feelings of drift and the risk of sudden collapse, squandering a large majority and a weakened opposition. The political system appears to be imploding, increasing the prospect of Reform UK gaining disproportionate power.
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