As has been highlighted numerous times in this thread, Europe is increasingly exasperated by Britain. If we decided to toss May on the scrap heap and ride Corbyn in on his white horse, I suspect there would be collective face palms across Brussels. We have shown incompetence on a mass scale for the last three years, and suggesting that after all of that we have an election to go back to the start again is unlikely to be met with a warm reception in Brussels. There is a strong impression that both parties are playing silly buggers to appease their own parties more than the wider public, and at such a time we really do deserve better.
The awful immigration bill is a good example. The Tories try and push through something that's a complete shambles, and Labour can't even seem to muster a collective response. First they say to MPs to abstain, then they change their mind, but 70 or so had already seemed to have made other plans and didn't vote. What an absolute shambles. I'll tell you, when this all started, Brussels was incredibly sad that a valued member was leaving the club, but as this has dragged on that sense of value has eroded at a rapid pace, and this is all down to the idiots we have in Westminster.
I don't disagree with any of this, but there is a logic to it all the same.
The parties are divided because the people themselves are divided. Perhaps astonishingly, MPs are, even now, still by and large representing what they think their constituents want. And in that sense, the system is functioning as intended.
At least with Leave/Remain constrained within Labour and the Conservative Party, the two sides still have to talk to each other.
Whereas a more coherent partisan reflection of the Brexit divide would mean permanent civil Cold War, like in America, where neither Party even attempts to represent the enemy traitors. We should think very carefully before we deciding that's the answer to the current impasse.
In any case, Labour has made clear that although they might not deliver the Brexit that you or anybody else wants - because who could? - it will undoubtedly be a softer Brexit than what the Tories can agree upon.
And, more importantly to me if not to you, Corbyn is also the only national politician with any longer-term ideas on how to resolve the underlying cultural and political crisis, by prioritising the deeper causes of Brexit - namely austerity (centrist liberals' original 'sick of experts' sin) - rather than keeping everything else the same and patching up the effects.
