… has seemingly occured in the blink of an eye, and has given way to an emerging four party system.

There was one brief period during the early 2010s when it looked like the Lib Dems might finally break out as the third “party of power.” However, that uptick ended up as a damp squib after they ended up betraying their student supporters by voting with the Conservatives for university tuition fee increases.That did them in for the next few years.

But now they have catapulted themselves back into the limelight as the party of pro-Remain yuppie cosmopolitans – students, hipsters, Londoners; while the eponymous Brexit party is the party of the rooted folks of Deep Albion. Meanwhile, the two century long mainstays of British politics – the Conservatives and New Labour – are struggling to remain relevant, as with centrist parties most everywhere else in Europe.