Nigel Farage correctly identified immigration as the number one issue that most concerned British voters, and the primary reason why UKIP won the Brexit referendum. But both sides of parliament in both Britain and Australia have colluded to ignore this issue in perpetuity.

Both sides of parliament are now in shock that their own heartland voters are changing their allegiances to parties which support either an end to immigration, or at least a reduction in immigraation, or a more discriminatory selection process.

it is almost incredible that the long established political parties of every European country are now under threat from newly minted parties who are implementing policies which they know their own people want, and which the established parties have always wished to ignore. The established parties would not do what the electorate wanted and now they are paying the price.

Both sides of parliament hav become the new aristocracy with political patronage now being inherited within families. Somewhere along the line, the parties completely lost touch with their own support base. Candidates were "parachuted" into electorates, often against the expressed wishes of the local party members. Resolutions from local parties to national conferences were routinely ignored. Politicians were more concerned with the predictions of laughably inaccurate pollsters than with actual voter concerns. And more concerned with the advice of political advisors who always advised their political paymasters to always ignore the any important issue which could become contentious.

This resulted in politicians who said whatever comforting and meaningless assurances to one group of people, while implying the opposite to people who may oppose the concerns of the first group. Is it any wonder that change is in the air?

It doesn't matter how the UK is governed, now that it is no longer a democracy - evidenced by the fact that it is still trapped in the EU despite a referendum requiring that they get out. The May creature and her cronies should be tried for treason.

Perhaps, maybe, who knows, who gives a flying french frankfurt?

If the indolent (leave it always, always to someone else) British youth had gotten up off of their bone lazy asses and actually bothered to go vote for what they wanted/want, then this issue would have been already decided along with a divisive disingenuous Boris Johnson's exit from UK politics!

Personally, I think the determinedly divided Uk stands to massively increase her exports. That is, of people, i.e., their best and brightest along with their better ideas!

And the impending withdrawal of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the union?
Who would likely vote for staying, in any new and now necessary referendum!?

! If Britain under the stewardship of idiotic idealogues, want to shoot themselves in their own economic foot, so be it?