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A large group don't vote at all (turnout in 2024 was 59.7%) because they're disillusioned with the system and think that there's no point in engaging electorally. Looking at their choices then (Kid Starver vs Tory Ghoul) it's not hard to imagine why. Actually popular candidates with grassroots support either aren't in the two-party duopoly and so are largely irrelevant due to how FPTP works, or are, like Corbyn, sidelined and purged. This is because the primary goal of the bourgeois parties is to funnel money and power to the bourgeoisie, and they'd much rather lose than accidentally do good things due to someone engaging in successful entryism.
The reactionaries are the way they are because essentially all media is constantly telling them to be more racist/transphobic etc. The left can't beat the right's multibillion pound propaganda network.