The less said about the Leave campaign, the better. Never has a victory been more Pyrrhic, including those at Heraclea and Asculum.
What matters now is that, "The referendum result sent a clear message from parts of Britain that have been left behind by globalisation."
The key figure is the man who said that. He is most certainly not to the right of Theresa May.
Just as there are people to the left of Jeremy Corbyn and of the ghost of Tony Benn, so there are people to the right of May and of the political ghosts of David Cameron and Tony Blair.
But not, in either case, so as to make any electoral difference.
Of course we are in the throes of a realignment.
That realignment is the complete transformation, not least through the exponential enlargement, of Corbyn's Labour Party.
A few Labour MPs, and perhaps one or two Conservatives (although almost certainly not), might try a new party, but it would sink without trace.
But no, of course those Labour MPs would not join the Conservative Party! Why on earth would they do that?
Merely because of philosophical or policy agreement? That level of naivety is positively touching.
The man who said that is just as globalist as the Tories since he campaigned to stay in the European Union.
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Incubated in the rightwing Leave and leftwing Remain campaigns were the parties of the future.
Labour and Tory MPs by all accounts realised what Peter Hitchens had said all along during that referendum campaign and discovered they had far more in common with each other.
The referendum brought the two leftwing parties together and they rather liked each other.
Only the colour of the rosettes is different.
Naive beyond words.
DeleteOf course we are in the throes of a realignment. That realignment is the complete transformation, not least through the exponential enlargement, of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.
UKIP, meanwhile, is about to go bust.
I wish they'd let Leadsom go out to the tiny, aged Tory Party in the country. Comparing her rallies with Corbyn's would have been hysterical. Same for May's, too. The candidate who won the Tory leadership election would have got about a quarter as many votes as the candidate who lost the Labour one, if that. It would have been a hoot. And Arron Bans yesterday, mentioning that Ukip had picked up a thousand members. A thousand! There are individual CLPs that have picked up two or three times that, sometimes more. So much for a party more right wing than the Tories and waiting to be sprung into life by the referendum result. A thousand people!
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