The reason I say shitshow - and believe me, no one's more aware of how the right wing media distort things than me - is because they've invited so much pressure on themselves with stuff that was totally avoidable.
I believe that at the heart of this government they lack political awareness in their press office/media relations team - they can't seem to anticipate how a policy or an action will pan out, and they keep walking into traps. Case in point the WFA. On what planet did they think that the Daily Mail and Express - which are essentially fanzines for Help The Aged - wouldn't give them an absolute hammering. They were completely naive, they walked into it and they've never had a convincing rebuttal ready for it.
Similar story on Freebiegate, the Sue Gray debacle and one or two other issues as well - just staggeringly ill-judged and naive.
I didn't mind the budget too much, it was ok (although to my mind it didn't go far enough on stuff like wealth taxes and taxes on unearned/passive income) but they really hadn't helped themselves before then.
That's where I am on it anyway. Other opinions available etc