I agree! You echo a point I made a while back, I can't figure out why this piss poor management keeps occurring. Is it lack of experience of government, arrogance, incompetence by those in the party machinery, Starmer's technocratic tendencies etc. or a combination of all of these?

Its a shame because there is much good stuff that this government has done, but that's been poorly communicated and presentation is very poor. The arrogance and attempted strong arming of backbench MP's has backfired, they are finding their feet and have given a strong message that their views do matter whatever those in the ivory towers may think. Whatever the reason they need to get a handle on things very quickly.

I agree with you re Reeves, though my sympathy is a little tempered by my encounters with her when I worked in Leeds where she was/is the local MP and found her to be a bit of slippery and arrogant character. But then maybe one needs a bit of that to be a politician these days.