Because he surrounds himself with incompetent people that rely on him for their continued employment.
When he has his last burger, support collapses by quite a bit (although not nearly enough). That's why they'd quite like to not bother with elections in the future. Nobody is decorating their mobility scooters and mobile homes with Vance merch.
All that drop in ratings, for nothing. Absolute incompetence.
It wouldn't have prevented the dreaded boat people from working, because it's all under the table anyway. It would just have been annoying and intrusive.
Yet at the same time, a free to access, zero knowledge proof ID system could be useful to have. It just can't be mandatory.
I'm working my way through that one now. One of the first episodes they try to cut civil service staff but end up hiring a 5000 extra so they know which ones to cut. Reform recently spent £5m in Derbyshire on consultants to "find savings".
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I saw a Reform Hive on Facebook earlier, and they're all fuming that Farage let him in, although it seemed mostly about Covid vaccine tinfoil-hattedness.
I don't know why they're all so surprised. Reform will be mostly the same people who already ruined the country once, having changed the colour of their ties to keep their snouts in the trough. Only with an even bigger helping of blaming nebulous "others".
Only put a few tril in there bro. Don't go wild.