The government is for maintaining power for the ruling class - in our case, the British and International capitalist class. Its job as the administrator of mass civic life is almost ancillary to that first goal. If worst comes to worst, a government will act to ensure the first at the detriment of the second. But once that happens it’s almost too late, the destabilising impact of ignoring the second ancillary goal almost ensures the failure of the the first goal.