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How brutal is the life of politics. Survey that government frontbench: each person is facing near impossible portfolios lacking the resources to do what they know is needed.

What they were handed was even more ruinous than feared: they were handed explosive situations, dishonest traps and gaping holes. Brexit is showing itself as even more economically crippling than predicted, now losing the exchequer £80bn a year.

The Difficulties Accumulating

They are blighted by poor fortune: the Trump administration landed on their watch. What greater disaster than a prison officer freeing a refused asylum-seeker individual convicted of sexual crimes? Small boat arrivals feel incessant.

A poorly timed deputy leadership election currently was bound to give the Prime Minister a bruising. The 11% vote share at the Welsh parliament by-election might not even be their lowest point.

They prepare for hostility, but they are human. As often, the Labour MP dares say what everyone observes: that exists "deep disillusionment in this country at the moment" and "a growing sense of despair about whether anyone is capable of turning this country round".

Voter Perception Baffles

However, despite this, the current vitriolic state of popular sentiment is perplexing and alarming. The Labour leader is the most disliked prime minister ever. Truly?

He embodies a decent, serious man of noble purposes, without undue arrogance or self-importance. Measure this against the former Prime Minister, the brief Conservative leader, or the relaxed confidence of David Cameron, none having substantial to justify conceited self-confidence.

Governing Difficulties

Yet, the public argues, the current PM is poorer. In his leadership role, he lacks personal magnetism, they say: more seriously, he lacks governing flexibility, creative thinking or sense of where the wind blows.

Labour blundered over cuts for elderly citizens and those with disabilities, unbalanced by generosity elsewhere. Unsure which demographic to target, the party has left positive initiatives unheralded, including employment protections to green investment, new towns and employment assurances for young people.

Political Strategy

Numerous close advisers persist in thinking the Daily Mail-inflected right needs wooing, when almost twice as many voters have shifted progressive since Labour took office. Survey specialist John Curtice warns them to cease pursuing Farage supporters: they've gone.

Labour's leader is failing; this cannot be disputed when pollsters suggest no leader could bounce back from these unplumbed depths.

But in the uncharted waters of such extreme volatility, history may be no guide. Starmer pulled Labour from a post-Jeremy Corbyn state of despair that history said couldn't be reversed in four years.

Potential Scenarios

Would anyone else achieve superior results, or are we experiencing a near-ungovernable, never-content citizenry? Any government may be dismissed equally quickly after taking office, however great its landslide victory, only if it appears in a gilded chariot bearing untold bounty for underfunded government departments and empty private purses.

Expectedly, panic on the back benches will make discussion about replacing the leader widespread if the upcoming votes go according to negative projections – or, certain observers propose, earlier.

The Way Forward

Officials face a contradiction: The party's sole opportunity emerges from difficulty. Accept they might be defeated regardless, so use this massive majority for the remainder of the term to follow their natural left-leaning values: introduce significant fiscal adjustments, increasing government income.

Prepare for opposition subsequent votes, so implement all policies immediately. Ignore survey results and focus groups; enable the public to witness sincerity in their purpose. The exclusive approach to rebuild credibility is to implement openly what they consider most right and fair.

• That respect has become vital to protect the country from calamity
• The clear signal from the recent election showed the strong "stop Reform" movement
• A substantial majority of unusually high engagement mobilizing to block populist advances
• That requires strategic electoral support for the likeliest anti-Farage candidate

Rachel Reeves appropriately labels Reform "the most significant danger" to our way of life. While Conservatives virtually merge with Reform, an electoral pact of some kind threatens.

Labour's duty is to implement required actions to prevent it. Plan for partnerships, be acceptable to allied groups when political labels becomes secondary to the essential limit against a political danger unseen in contemporary politics.

This represents a mission to overcome hopelessness.