There's a general absence in the mainstream parties of any personality, let alone soul.
Viewing this thread from the German perspective many items sound only too familiar.
I would say that for at least twenty years bland apparatchiks and psychos have taken over politics here.
The usual actors behind the curtains are drafting their minions early on in the political process.
Same here as well. Germans are not bred that way either. Concerning the lack of pushback I would suggest that only when people's illusions are dying they will find the resolve to act for their causes.And I don't think any real pushback will ever come, either. Brits are just not bred that way.
Way too many people are retaining their illusion that things will be improving at some point in time.
[..] the government is specifically now coming after the middle/upper middle classes.
They are coming after the middle classes because they have retained some liberty for themselves which does not fit in well with the goals of the EUSSR (and those of the British pathocracy as well). Small and medium-sized businesses are about to be fleeced so that governments do not run out of other people's money to spend.
But as they are successfully destroying the fabric of society they can only cause resentment and rage among ordinary citizens as they are attracting a future day of reckoning...