They are owned by people who want lower tax. Reeves and starmer have been given huge personal donations to achieve that. They work for those people, in Reeves case a US company that took here to see the NYSE, among others, not for you.
Corbyn wasn't a last chance for us because of his policies, I thought some of them utter crap, leaving NATO would cause unecessary friction when we need international trade more than ever, for instance.
But because the one thing he is, is incorruptible. You couldn't buy him, he actually wanted to do what he thought wwas best for the country. Disgaree with his ideas, and I did quite often, but at least he was trying to make things better.
Now we have this. And because the only people who can actually get elected to lead the country are all owned by the exact same groups of people, it cannot get better. As starmer shows, the rate it gets worse will continue to increase.