> The same Starmer who's cancelled local elections?

False: https://fullfact.org/online/council-elections-war-cancelled/

> Who's not looked at the polls and thought maybe it's time to go, because the demos clearly don't want me?

You seem to have missed the "did actually win power" and "this is how democracy works in the UK" parts.

I agree he should go, but I could say that about all of the UK politicians, they're all negative approval: https://www.pollcheck.co.uk/favourability-ratings

> The same Starmer who raised the threshold of votes required for an MP from within the Labour party to challenge his leadership?

From 10% of the MPs to 20% of the MPs. As challengers would have to, you know, get more MPs than him to win, the only thing going from 10% to 20% is to have less pointless drama.

> People are already talking about the rhetoric being used around war with Russia as laying the foundations for removing a 2029 general election.

First I've heard of that. Would be exceptionally dumb for a UK politician to do on purpose for the same reason that it would be correct to cancel elections in the event of such a war: the UK is not even remotely close to being ready to battle Russia. UK armed forces are just about big enough to keep the nuclear weapons safe, not much more besides that.