eg https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221319244
" they've lost all their patience for government" may not be far off the mark - you'll also find articles on the web along the lines of "is the UK ungovernable?" We really don't have much money. GDP per capita, in constant US $, only exceeded the 2007 level in 2024: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=GB
And that means that any government that would like to spend more on something (health, or, now, defence), or cut taxes, basically can't. So it's hard to see anyone becoming generally popular in government. Though Starmer has made several bad moves. The best chance for the UK is large scale tactical voting to elect "anyone but the Tories or Reform" (and if we're lucky, the even further right "Restore" party will take some of the Reform vote, without getting popular enough anywhere, give or take Rupert Lowe's current constituency, to win any seats). Unfortunately, a significant part of the UK electorate hates formal pre-election pacts, so it's very rare for parties to form them. That leaves it up to individual voters, or unofficial organisations, to work out how to get the "basically an OK person" parties efficiently competing in the seats they could win if united.
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