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Pervasive resentment about attempts to overturn the Brexit result contributed to this outcome. Whatever lesson exists for the US, it's not about "going too far left," it's about perceptions of overturning a democratic election result. Impeachment advocates may want to take notice

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Don Valley constituency, Labour since 1922, votes Conservative. Brexit result: 69% Leave Great Grimsby constituency, Labour since 1945, votes Conservative. Brexit result: 72% Leave Remain hardliners have doomed the party, possibly for generations

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Remember in June when people began to draw Brexit-Trump comparisons, and pundits reflexively dismissed this as fundamentally un-Serious?

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Brexit was a historic revolt against establishment institutions but instead of harnessing that energy Labour squandered it by deferring to the interests of the party's upper-class power base. Cue denunciations of the mining towns that have been Labour since pre-WWII as "racist"

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6 weeks before Brexit: "Remain" led by around 4%, undecided at 14% 6 weeks before Nov. 8: HRC leads by around 4%, undecided/other at 13%

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Whatever you think of Brexit it was a historic exercise in UK democracy, and attempts to stall or overturn it failed because people don’t appreciate when their duly-expressed will is treated with contempt by myopic elites

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After two years toiling over the meaning of Trump and Brexit, elites are right back to chastising everyone for not sufficiently revering international trade organizations. They’ve definitely learned a lot

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Labour MP Ruth Smeeth just declared on Sky TV that she's lost because Labour is now "the racist party" and blamed Corbyn -- no mention of that her constituency voted overwhelmingly for Brexit

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Just a theory, but those historic Labour strongholds didn't vote Conservative for the first time ever because they were convinced by the Grand Mystic Rabbi of Great Britain or whatever that Corbyn is anti-semitic, lol. That narrative was a media-confabulated joke. Brexit was real

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2017 Labour manifesto declared that the Party "accepts the referendum result" and would deliver Brexit: they won seats, in defiance of polls. 2019 Labour manifesto promised another 6 months of Brexit agony and a second referendum: they are getting destroyed. No great mystery here

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Some guys at the Trump rally just started shouting BREXIT! BREXIT!

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I really like Corbyn (especially on foreign policy) and wanted him to win, but the Labour position on Brexit was an absolutely untenable disaster

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"It's gonna be a Brexit Plus Plus Plus" -- Trump on the election tomorrow

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Seemed pretty obvious two years ago that a Prime Minister who did not support Brexit was going to have a difficult time facilitating Brexit

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Nigel Farage founded a party around three months ago and virtually swept the Euro elections. Farage's win in 2014 put pressure on Cameron, which led to the inclusion of a referendum in the 2015 manifesto, which led to Brexit. So, would not understate the significance of this win

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If you suggested a year ago that the power vacuum brought on by Brexit would strengthen Corbyn, you were called a lunatic. Just sayin'

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Remember when Brexit was supposed to have been some sort of sinister Russian plot to weaken "The West"? If that was really Russia's goal, it doesn't seem to have worked out: today their top government officials condemn the UK for being even more virulently anti-Russia than the US

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Trump says Theresa May "has done a very good job" on Brexit. LOL

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Theresa May broke down and cried during her resignation speech. Maybe she should've tried crying during Brexit negotiations; can't have been worse than the strategy she's used up till now

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The anti-semitism smear campaign was a problem, but a surmountable problem. The incoherent Brexit position, driven by urban 'Remoaners' who never accepted the result after 3.5 years, was not surmountable

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