(This is just a smug anecdote because I rarely get the opportunity to do so in Hellworld-on-Sea)
People were talking about the Starmer government seeming to be following the Trump one 'a bit too closely on some things' in the pub this weekend and I pointed out it was much more than that. It's on almost everything.
On slashing government, on foreign policy, on welfare demonisation, on AI boondoggles, on deportation & immigration, on the prosecution of protesters and anti-genocide activists, begging for tarrif excemptions in exchange for cutting all tax on American tech companies instead of arguing against them, and on and on.
Even the still active Labour people (including an assistant to an MP) were basically like, 'yeah, that's depressingly true but what else are we gonna do' (faux, there is no alternative self-pitying bullshit naturally) instead of even trying to fight the point or do the party line.
I was kind of surprised how fucking deep in the toilet even their morale is apparently.
In fact, they only got a little bit indignant when I concluded by pointing out that the major difference between the Starmer admin and Trump's is that Trump is still popular with his base and Starmer's got exactly fuck all.
Even then they didn't have much will to push back beyond some harrumphing and 'come on now'.
I enjoyed it tremendously.