I won't lie, the kicking that the Tories are going to get β most of it
self-inflicted β makes me smile.
However, I'd smile even more if the likely Labour government were aiming
higher than Slightly Less Awful.
I don't know if I can ever trust the Liberal Democrats again at the
national level. At local government level, they've been... well,
competent in making the best of a bad situation. (But seemingly can't
stop fighting Labour instead of the actual party responsible for this
mess. Hint: they run the county council and central government.)
In an ideal world I'd vote Green. Sadly, the First Past The Post
electoral system means this is emphatically not an ideal world.
What really turns my stomach, when I briefly check the news, is that the
real winner will be Nigel Farage and his latest political vehicle β not
in seats, but in moving the policies of the other parties ever further
rightward.
July 4th won't be the end of the battle β it'll only be the start. The
real battle remains the Β excising of the cancerous tumour that has
infected UK politics for decades, of which Brexit is but the most
visible manifestation. Doing that, though, may require a revolution.