The Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is done:
Labour was engulfed in a brutal civil war this morning as moderates warned of ’20 years of Tory rule’ unless Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters were removed from positions of power.
The bitter recrimination between Mr Corbyn’s hard-Left supporters and more moderate factions began as soon as the exit polls last night accurately predicted the party’s brutal pummelling at the hands of voters.
As Mr Corbyn revealed he would not fight another general election as opposition leader his closest confidants were quick to blame Brexit, the weather and his opponents to deflect from his failings in his four years in charge.
And so is the Liberal Democrat Party leader Jo Swinson:
The Liberal Democrats turned on their leader Jo Swinson today after she was ousted from her own seat in Scotland following a disastrous General Election campaign.
The party’s former deputy leader Simon Hughes launched a scathing attack on her as he said ‘every strategic decision’ taken since she took over had been wrong.
It came after Miss Swinson, 39, lost East Dunbartonshire to the SNP’s Amy Callaghan by just 149 votes – and when the result came in First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was caught on camera in nearby Glasgow celebrating like a football fan.
Today, Mr Hughes told Sky News: ‘Every single decision taken since Jo became the leader and Ed became the deputy leader has been the wrong decision. Every strategic decision. They decided to go for revoking Article 50, having ignored the referendum. They decided that they could argue that that was because we might be a majority government. Incredible, incredible – nobody believed it.’
The nationalist trend is in full effect now. Whether the politicians embrace it or not is irrelevant. People want to live among their own kind according to their own traditions, not in artificial multiracial, multicultural empires where they are forced to endure foreign rule, foreign traditions, and foreign religions.
Ms Swinson, 39, blamed a ‘wave of nationalism’ both north and south of the Scottish border for her party’s woes as the Tories and SNP gained seats.
It’s not the first wave and it won’t be the last one. And yes, Boris Johnson may well be a gatekeeper who has been anointed in order to manage the wave. But it doesn’t matter and it won’t work. The gates are going to shatter under the pressure of the multigenerational socionomic trend.