They never will do electoral reform. For most of recent history they’ve been one of the two big parties and the two big parties under FPTP will never implement any proportional representation.

I slightly disagree about the competence because everyone seems to have forgotten the train wreck that was the conservatives post-brexit.

They’re moving ahead with sensible boring policies that don’t get talked about in the media because there’s nothing here to get the population angry about: planning law reforms, Great British Energy (a nationalised green energy producer), Great British Railways (renationalising the railways), and more Metro-mayors reforming local government into a much simpler three-tier system that devolves more powers to local authorities.

The issues are:

1. They keep fumbling the public relations and scoring own goals (see winter fuel payments and the wanking licence, both policies the conservatives set in motion that they could have stopped but didn’t have the spine to).

2. They keep bending over to try and appease Reform talking points instead of standing on their own principles. This won’t win over Reform voters who are already laying all of their financial woes at the feet of whatever enemy Farage and Robinson tell them to be angry about, and it keeps pissing off their left leaning supporters.

3. They’re not willing to tackle the biggest issue: wealth inequality. The party has clearly already bent the knee to billionaires and corporations that attend DAVOS even before Kier got elected.

That last one is the biggest fumble of them all because increasing wealth inequality is what is drives the growing dispair and frustration that Farage feeds off and tells them to direct their anger at immigrants/trans people/whatever minority target they chose.

This is why I hope Zack Polanski can continue to apply pressure from the left and I hope that the Greens are able to assemble their own set of prominent talking heads and potential MPs that get the media attention needed to push public conversation towards the left again, very difficult to do in a Murdoch captured media landscape.