From Infidel753:
This is a political earthquake. Labour and the Conservatives are the two traditional major parties, like our Democrats and Republicans, and the Conservative party is in power in the actual British government right now. The Liberal Democrats are the long-standing third party, which usually gets a substantial share of the vote but much less than the big two. The Brexit party is a single-issue party formed just a few weeks ago, which has barely had time to get organized, yet it won far more votes than the big two combined. Add in the votes for UKIP (UK Independence Party, an older anti-EU party which I didn’t realize was still around), and about 35% of the vote went to single-issue pro-Brexit forces which the mainstream media in Britain have relentlessly tried to marginalize and ridicule. And the voters massively repudiated the political establishment, especially the party in power.
Perhaps the results aren’t surprising. It is almost three years since the original referendum in which the people voted to leave the EU (by a margin, please note, of four percentage points, twice as large in percentage terms as the margin by which Hillary won the popular vote here against Trump), and the country still does not have an agreed-upon plan or schedule for getting out.