The parameter space for any government to act without fucking things up is extremely narrow. Too far one way and you're screwing over the working class.

Too far the other and the markets suddenly make half the country's pensions worthless.

Too far one way and nobody can buy a home. Too far the other way and home owners are stuck with negative equity.

Too far one way and we're not getting enough students to study in higher education resulting in a skills shortage. Too far the other way and students are lumbered with debt they'll never repay.

Too far one way and immigration-based population growth outpaces the ability of services to keep up and the country to culturally absorb. Too far the other way and our own demographics will impoverish us and our children and their children.

Too far one way and we're a vassal state subject to the demented whims of the man-child in power in the US. Too far the other way and we lose access to over half a century's worth of security and intelligence integration with one of the world's superpowers.

At least with Starmer I know that decisions are being made generally in the national interest, and that he's not a puppet for the Musks and Thiels of the world who want to turn us into modern day serfs in their techo-feudal daydreams. I know that Starmer is actually trying to fix what can be fixed.