HARD RIGHT FLOPS : An extensive survey of the local elections results from last Thursday has nailed down why the party of government, and also the official opposition, UKIP, saw its voteshare collapse.
“They’re not pro-Brexit enough,” Professor Paid Piper says, “traditional Brexit supporting voters in the shires and counties have seen through it.”
And voters have good reason to be furious with UKIP. In spite of being the party of government, and also the official opposition since 24th June 2016, they’ve failed to deliver on their promise to turn the U.K. into a total burning pit of despair.
”They’ve made strides at making the U.K. an international pariah,” Professor Paid Piper notes, “pretty much everyone internationally is now finding ways to shaft us, from small countries to the large ones. Delivering a so called WTO Brexit would be the coup de grace. But so far they haven’t done it.”
So voters turned to the Liberal Democrats and the Greens to punish the party of government and official opposition for not delivering Brexit yet?
”Yes. That’s what the results tell us. The Libdems and Greens boxed very clever in the lead up to the locals. Neither party mentioned Brexit at all. This left millions of furious voters free to decide what their Brexit policy was and vote for it. OUT and out now seemed to be the perception.”
Well at least with Nigel Farage standing as a limited company with secret offshore donors, and no actual policies, in the EU elections, Brexit backers will be able to vote for a party that traditionally promotes Brexit, as opposed to UKIP.
”We will have to wait and see. It’s going to be an almighty struggle between Fuhrage, Libdems and Greens to get that pro-Brexit protest vote so evident in last week’s locals.”
As Vince Cable and Caroline Lucas repeatedly say, a vote for either of their parties is a vote to just get on and Brexit.