Just musing about what might happen. May has few options now, all of which she hates. If she kowtows to the tory headbangers and tries to crash out she’ll probably face a vote of no confidence from her own party, so risks defenestration; she won’t go to a second referendum because, for whatever reason, she’s so heavily invested in refusing it that the climb down would be unacceptable; the GE option terrifies her because she knows she’d wipe out her own party probably for a generation, and in any case risking Corbyn getting in is existentially abhorrent.
As for Labour, Corbyn’s godawfulness both in general and specifically on Brexit means he might win a GE if there is one, but on a historically low turnout as a huge swathe of the country would feel politically homeless and would stay at home.
So what about the breakaway group that’s just formed a political party (Change UK)? Perhaps if they could run candidates in every constituency specifically on a people’s vote ticket they would offer a home for the groundswell of disaffected voters who want nothing to do with Brexit, so would have a place to register that.
Pretty far-fetched right, except traditional politics is now so fundamentally broken that the realignment has to happen somehow, and essentially Macron did just that in France when he came from nowhere to overthrow the long-established order.
Or am I losing it here?
