Whilst Corbyn has clearly made considerable effort to rally the votes of the incoming voting generation of already half-brainwashed University populations, he’s yet to appeal to those of us who want to actually see these “Eurosceptic” credentials.
Perhaps if Corbyn became an advocate of an even harder version of Labour Leave than the Right-wing version, he might find himself poaching the very votes of the Right he’ll need one day, if he’s ever to get past the 40% poll that still didn’t win it for him (for very similar reasons to Le Pen polling around the same, and not winning in France last year…)
There’s the Brexit Ball. It’s about ten feet in front of an empty goal, as the goalie hasn’t even turned up today.
…All anyone has to do is kick it in the net, and not miss from ten feet out. How ‘hard’ is that?
For all we know, last year’s election poll was not actually about an apparent shift of 3.5m ex-UKIP voters straight to Labour (which doesn’t make much sense, if you think about it…) but might have instead, represented 3.5m UKIP voters “not voting at all”, or “Voting for minor candidates” - whilst plenty of Tory voters went to the Libdems, whilst Libdem voters went to Corbyn.
The result is the same though. Labour - surge. Libdems - Treading water, if we can call gaining a measly 3 seats that, followed by Tim Nice-but-Farron resigning, having seen his majority crushed.
If it were not for the votes of migrating Tory protest voters - who’s to say that the Libdems would have even held on to the 9 seats they had going into that election?
As for the “Fire in the air” UKIP voters… Those 3.5m votes apparently disappearing in the 2017 election - might find themselves resurging the other minor parties, such as “Local Issue” independents in particular. We once saw Cameron “throw the kitchen sink” at making sure Farage could and would not win South Thanet.
So here’s a scenario set-up:
A few seats here and there, up and down the country with reasonable but not huge majorities for the incumbent… Let’s say seats like Uxbridge or Lonsdale that have high-profile incumbents, holding onto a 4-figure, but more importantly “sharply declining” majority…
Are those seats really going to either stay the same or flip to another mainstream party?
…Or can a concentrated effort be made there, by an independent candidate, hopefully with other indy candidates stepping side, thus not to split the vote?
This is nothing new. Martin Bell managed to unseat Neil Hamilton in 1997 in, of all Constituencies - Tatton, later to be won and held by none other than George Osbourne!
If a apparent “safe seat” can be turfed out in this manner, then I would predict that by the time of the next election - “Tactical Voting” might fall to the public as their last-ditch attempt (seeing as merely ‘Voting Leave’ has been ignored so far…) to push back at the political mainstream - in the form of well-coordinated voting for those by-then refined indy candidates, that might then go on to form perhaps the third largest group in the house of commons, albiet “not officially” a party as of yet?
The next election might well be very up-close and personal for the public, who all at once - decide to do everything they can to oust EVERY mainstream party seat warmer in the house of commons. Just think of the potential: A large group of “loose, non-affiliated” indy MPs who can either support or block the mainstream party that happens to be running the by-then common “minority government”… A predict a LOT more things being done for local issues, and to garn the favour of those indy MPs - and a LOT of old-hat “them and us” poltiics - being swept away, as “Obsolete” by that point.
I have a dream… 
More later.