re: #195 Feline Fearless Leader

That might actually be what the Tories and Labor need. A 3rd party to siphon off the fanatics and allow them to have a reasonable majority left in their own party.

I dunno: two-party systems may have their drawbacks, but at least they introduce a certain level of stability into a country’s political system. In Britain, though, the problem with a Farage-led “Brexit Party” (aside from Nigel Farage himself) is that it might “siphon off” just enough support to form a spoiler bloc in Parliament - and one of single-issue fanatics, at that - which would make them indispensable power-brokers: as it’s a wild guess as to whether either Tories or Labour would be able to keep a working Majority if the Brexiteers flounce off to a Party of their own.

My analysis of British politics my be faulty (always a possibility), but I’ve always thought Farage and UKIP were a fringe party mainly because their xenophobic anti-immigrant, anti-Europe obsessions weren’t “mainstream” enough: but in the Brexit Era, that’s not so true anymore.