Labour Has To Be Better...Don't They?

Hard to believe that the same Conservative Party which returned an 80 seat majority in 2019 are facing being wiped out at the next general election, an 80 seat majority should take 2 or 3 general elections to overturn but Labour seemed to have managed to do it in under 1 which leads me to ask are the Conservatives just that bad or are Labour that good?
The answer to the first question is they are bad, really bad and they have been since David Cameron in 2010 and his austerity policies which saw the NHS underfunded and the loss of 5,870 NHS nurses, 7,968 hospital beds, a third of ambulance stations, 5,362 firefighters, 6,800 police officers, 350 youth centers, 2,000 youth workers, 200,000 civil servants, 4 prisons, 57 hospitals, 66 Accident & Emergency wards, 500 libraries, 100 swimming pools and 5,000 teachers.
A record breaking number of food banks sprung up and the £0.76 trillion debt the polices was meant to reduce hit £1.36 trillion when Theresa May took over and was then ditched by Boris Johnson before the laughably awful Liz Truss took over and made things so much worse and now Rishi with his right wing dog whistle immigration policies.
Johnson's constant lies and Truss's window shakingly bad economic policies must take the most blame for the Conservatives shocking fall from favour but it is hard to think of anything which is better now than it was in 2010 but to answer the second question, is Labour that good to actually deserve to be heading in to the next General Election with a 30% lead?
Kier Starmer is not what you would call exciting but maybe that is exactly what we need after the helter skelter rides of the last few years but where he seems to be about much fun as a chinese burn, he does seem competent and he has some great people around him in the Shadow Cabinet.
I have a lot of time for Angela Raynor, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting and Johnathan Ashworth who have talked a good game especially around abandoning the non-dom status, reducing the cost of living and inequality, supporting the NHS and increasing the number of teachers, nurses, doctors and police that the Conservatives so foolishly culled.
I don't know if Labour will be that good, i was a major backer of Tony Blair at the start of his tenure and look how that ended up, but they HAVE to be better than what we currently have which is a very low bar but we have to hope they will be because if not, our politics really is in a bad way.