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iso1631yesterday at 2:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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throwaway85825yesterday at 2:28 PM

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

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pjc50yesterday at 2:18 PM

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