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The UK Conservatives suffer a collapse in support.

As a Labour man, I see this as a good thing in some ways and a bad thing in others. Ever since May signed off on the Brexit delay, the Tories hard-right Brexit base is furious on what they see as a sell-out. Most Councillors now want their leader to go and there are reports of local activists refusing to campaign for their party. This is a crisis for them.

The bad news is that most of their support has gone to Nigel Farage's Brexit party. Whilst divisions on the right benefit labour from a strategic point of view, it will inevitable force the Tory Party further rightwards. The next party leader will certainly be a hard Brexiteer because of where their members are at and also because they have no other place to go electorally.

This further complicates Brexit because there is no way the Conservatives will agree to an election in their current state and it also makes a deal with Labour less likely because their supporters are giving them a big incentive not to compromise.
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Northwest · M
This was to be expected, right? The hard core Brexiters are not moved by economic reasoning, or sound reason/logic, but by nationalism and anti-somethings. The emperor really has no clothes, this time around.

I compare May to our own Mitt Romney, and some in the GOP leadership. Sooner or later, they will also have to decide to either be in the GOP, or the Party of Trump.

In the UK's case, I believe this is good news for Labour.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@Northwest The Romney analysis works and as I say, this is good for Labour electability but bad for the country long term.

The Conservatives typically represent financial capital (City of London and Confederation of British industry) and a lower middle class nationalist base. These camps used to operate together, particularly under Thatcher but they are now massively opposed because of Brexit.

We are seeing a political re alignment but it's potentially a lot worse than Trump. The American mainstream right and the American state seem to have absorbed trumpism into something which supports their own agenda. That can't happen with Brexit, for obvious reasons so the ruptures on the right will continue.