Brexit Has Been The Greatest Undoing of The Conservative Party and The United Kingdom

And the decimation of the Tories at the next elections is inevitable.

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The Conservative and Unionist party is the most successful political organization in the history of western democracy.

You think of some of the titanic figures in British political history —William Pitt Sr and Jr, Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Salisbury, Palmerston, Austen Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and not forgetting the hugely divisive and revolutionary Margaret Thatcher were all Conservatives.

Pragmatism is the organizing principle and the main political philosophy of the Tories.

This thinking meant that it knew exactly when to drop unpopular causes and when to embrace popular ones and it was rewarded by the electorate for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

But so much has changed in the United Kingdom.

In the last 13 years, we have seen the radical realignment of British politics; some will say the most extraordinary for well over 200 years.

First was the reinstatement of the Tories to power after thirteen years in the wilderness by way of a coalition government with the Liberals in 2010 and subsequently by the defenestration of labour by the…