Odd isn't it? The Labour Party has now turned into the Nasty Party - antisemitism being the most glaring example - while the Tories have become the Loony Right, with Brexit headbangers doing their best to drag us over the no-deal cliff edge.
The Tories used to have the reputation of fiscal responsibility. But Mrs May has blown that one. Poor Mr Hammond has tried to hold the line, only to be screamed at by those headbangers.
The Conservative Party is being controlled from the back benches, the Labour Party by Momentum, while the Lib-Dems and UKIP have faded into irrelevance.
It is unlikely that there will be a leadership challenge mounted against Mrs May - who on earth would want her job? She has no control and yet she has all the responsibility. She will be blamed for the car-crash when we leave the EU, though it is her divided party that is destroying our negotiating strategy.
When we go into the next general election the Tories will have been (barely) in power for three terms, the economy will be failing, wages falling, prices increasing. No matter what Labour offer they will win. The only reason a challenger would step forward now would be so they could say they did have a crack at being PM. No wonder Mr Johnson is the leading contender. In some ways he would be the perfect mascot as we confidently trip over our own ego into a vat of economic custard.
The concern is that when Labour win they will win heavily. Their current policies are radical and our economy will not be ready for more punishment. Attempting to transition instantly from Brextremist hard Right low regulation policies to a hard Left high regulation statist economy will be a disaster.
Ironically, Mrs May's socialist leanings combined with her preference for consensus means that she would be perfect as leader of a new party formed from the many MPs (Labour and Conservative) who fundamentally disagree with their own party's direction.
I might even vote for her myself.
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