Things are going pretty well in other parts of the western world so I dunno if the UK's government should be absolved of their agency so quickly. From my POV s

Things are going pretty well in other parts of the western world so I dunno if the UK's government should be absolved of their agency so quickly. From my POV seems like the UK's government is tanking the country by pursuing an idiological agenda that obviously isn't working, and is obviously lowering the standard of living in the country, and yet despite all evidence they continue to double down. The sad thing we're seeing with Labour is that they're doing the classic thing that happens when parties stay in the wilderness of opposition too long, they start to doubt themselves and instead align with what the government of the day is doing. Labour under their new leadership is clearly now hoping that if they're timid enough and don't rock the boat at all when the Conservatives inevitably implode they'll be thrust into power because they're sitting there as the next default alternative. It's sadly terribly uninspiring.