Yes the government's approach is going swimmingly, hence why they're polling at 18%.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

The merits of the (abhorrent) policy aside, "If you don't like this you won't like what follows me" is just an insane way for a government to be talking with three years and nine months left until an election.

Well, if we are being 'objective' it is objective fact that the British electorate hate Keir Starmer, whether me, you, or anyone considers it fair or not irrelevant.

Yeah - my theory is that a) there is this feeling that his failure is the death of all hope: people really hoped the Tory defeat would bring about an end to misery and grimness and it hasn’t b) he reminds them of their manager c) the visible lack of a plan or a vision.

Yes. I also think the fact that he so visibly doesn't enjoy doing the job of Prime Minister hasn't helped his image either.

It isn't at all. Starmer is genuinely reviled, and anyone who claims that he isn't is, respectfully, somewhat detached from reality.

Starmer is disliked by ~75% of the electorate. Newsflash: that includes quite a lot of Labour voters- and, crucially, those who may have voted for other parties or stayed at home but were comfortable with Labour winning.

The Starmer re-elect is dead. The souffle does not rise twice, the prime minister does not come back from that kind of approval rating, or indeed the level of hatred he inspires in the country now.