British Politics Explained

I recognise that a lot of my readers are American so I'm going to attempt to explain British politics in an article I can reference in the future. Right now we're at a turning point, the current traditional two parties may occupy the opposition and the leaders of the government, but take up neither second or first in the polls as things stand so how did we get here? LabourLabour have a historic majority that has seemingly fallen into the lap of the least competent politicians I have ever seen. I do not say this with a desire to obfuscate any of the many horrific policy decisions as stupidity, a lot of that is a careful well considered evil, but rather to gawk at the sheer awfulness of their political communication. Labour currently sit below the Tories, Green and Reform in 5th in some national polling, which given their majority last year is an unprecedented collapse. More politically savvy people may have seen this coming however, as Labours majority basically fell into their lap…