Big Changes in Britain

Dec. 19, 2019 (EIRNS)—While it’s too early to draw conclusions—and this is Britain, after all—extraordinary changes are going on there. One which bears some comparison to Russiagate and impeachment in the U.S., is that parliamentary opponents of Brexit from every political party, conducted every sort of sneaky parliamentary maneuver to stop Brexit during the entirety of Johnson’s seven-month government. The hatred and bile the British establishment poured out against Johnson, his top advisor Dominic Cummings and Brexit, was reminiscent of nothing more than “Trump Derangement Syndrome” in the U.S.

Their maneuvers succeeded—they prevented Brexit—but they were only digging their own graves, as Cummings said repeatedly. Now the “Tory rebels” against Johnson and Brexit have one and all been dumped by the British voters. None of their leaders is in government any longer.

Johnson’s Tory party swept to an electoral victory the like of which has not been seen for 30 years, by capturing the majority of the former base of the Labour Party. A clear majority of skilled workers in Britain voted Tory for the first time in memory.