You certainly have a way with words!
I try. Can do the diplomatic phrasing and can do the fun words as well, this seems like a fitting case for the latter. Though more importantly am I wrong in my assessment of the situation there? Modern medicine (which is ostensibly cradle to grave for the whole population) is only getting more expensive beyond rates of inflation (even current inflation levels) by dint of fancier and fancier tools (medical scanning today in most county level hospitals was super high end scientific tools 20 years ago, maybe one in the country, with ranks more sub specialities now in each hospital and all that goes with that), not aided by people getting old* and fat (minimal effects before 50 as far as the NHS is concerned, rapidly rising after that owing to be a complicating and aggravating factor in basically everything, sadly not always being a massive heart attack the day after retirement/day before your expensive knee replacements at 62). About the only bonus is smoking rates seem to be down, though in terms of funds that might well mean less tax to fund it (since they started hiding it in shops I had no idea of the prices, had to get some for someone the other day... wow and most of that is tax) and those that would have died off earlier now lingering with whatever else (likely way more expensive) for 15 more years instead.
*generally expensive -- from 15 to 50 unless you break a bone most people probably just get some antibiotics from time to time (hope resistance does not kick off properly in the future either) or some painkillers when you throw your back out, the latter of which is probably a personal expense anyway, or in the case of women maybe a trip to the gynaecologist/obgyn however often you are supposed to do that plus a few more should they actually have a child (rarer hobby than previous decades these days, with it only set to get less common, and that posing a further funding issue even if prices stayed the same/went in line with inflation) and possibly cluttering up the GPs mentioned with a few frivolities here and there or indeed to be told there-there by someone in a white coat/owning a stethoscope. Beyond that is when the fun stuff happens, ramping up as age does and people or medics wanting to have said people being in a broadly functional state and spinning around the sun for as long as possible (modern medicine making that more and more possible). Sure you get some car crashes, industrial accidents, random cancers, unlucky types, genetic inferiors that would not traditionally have made it past childhood (never mind successfully breeding to pass it on, maybe it is a recessive or combination trait), tourist or import with something rare, psychological problems (not aided by modern living either) and drug addicts (possibly also a reflection of modern living) to keep it somewhat less boring.
That might have been a thing of the lead was in the single digits. This kind of digits that even long term voters would rather have someone else in charge. And you can't blame them: it's kind of hard to maintain an illusion of democracy if you're just swapping a petty crook with someone with an agenda that doesn't even pretend to care about the general public.
Oh, and unless I'm mistaken, your last sentence literally means nothing.
The conservatives came in with a similar lead (as long as they could get their party in line, and for the most part the whips did have control, indeed still is just about the case in terms of numbers, they could have passed anything up to and including things that might have needed a super majority) and instead twiddled their thumbs and got people calling them conservatives in name only. Generally see the same in reverse as well, plus the regional/devolved stuff (SNP, which is basically labour, has been in proper majority power in Scotland for years, nothing happened, or we can look in the US -- nobody is clamouring to get to New York, California, Washington state, Oregon despite most of those having serious majority rule and a lot of internal power and funds for some time, and most of those have serious serious problems looming as well).
Not sure how it means nothing. Inertia in politics is generally how it works -- in the unlikely event some firebrand does get in (does not matter what side) or their puppet masters are firebrands (more likely than the boring yes man centrist figurehead that most party leaders are/end up being so as to appeal to the broadest audience/swing voters, whether that be the Parliamentary Labour Party or 1922 committee, or something more back door/sinister depending upon your world view), something gets changed in parliament, no legal challenges issued or issuable (see the various things attempted to stop and stymie leaving the EU for an example, these need no majority as much as a clever lawyer, which is a serious chunk of both political parties with even more on the payroll), probably get kicked back from the house of lords to change some wording they tried to slip through, we will ignore the sign off of the king (last time anything happened there was hundreds of years ago, and even that was a quirk at behest of parliament), probably has a become effective date, then have to train either police to enforce it (good luck) or have it filter down the civil service (the not elected aspect and typically there for the long haul, usually referred to as whitehall gremlins, each party will complain about capture by the other party -- see again leaked text messages and such complaining about the party in charge) and then onto schools, healthcare, tax code... whatever as people get left to figure it out, and then again at local level as most things are regional, and probably do what they were originally doing unless they get called out on it, maybe give it lip service if there is a money barrel uncorked to get some of it. At this point quite some time has probably passed, likely years, and eh.
Sure there are emergency and quicker measures for when it matters but for the most part they are actually left for emergencies rather than frivolities.
Changing colours of ties of whatever dudes are sitting on the big bench ultimately mattering little, any particular elections possibly being a reflection of how brazen the politicos in question have been with their snouts in the trough (or dick in the snout of depending upon personal proclivities) and degree of "that's just not cricket" fallout of that.
