Agreed. In the UK, "U-turn" is nearly always used as a pejorative in the media and a cause of shame for the party doing the "U-turn": https://www.bbc.co.uk/sear

Agreed. In the UK, "U-turn" is nearly always used as a pejorative in the media and a cause of shame for the party doing the "U-turn": https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=government+u-turn https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=government+u-turn I believe this is one of the reasons why it seems so particularly hard to get a measure reverted here. Why go back on anything if you're guaranteed to get extra flak? Might as well just weather the storm of whatever bad idea you came up with originally.