Polls in Britain are indicating that in the upcoming election for EU representatives, the rather new Brexit Party, headed by Nigel Farage, is poised to do very very well:

That vote is set for May 23. Had Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservatives honored the Brexit referendum of 2016, Britain wouldn’t have to participate in the blasted EU election. Voters decided, after all, to leave the EU, and a departure date of March 29 was all set. Mrs. May, though, betrayed the referendum. And now Britain has to elect a delegation to sit in the EU “Parliament.”

In that election, the party polling at the head of the field is the Brexit Party. It was founded at the last minute by Nigel Farage. He’s the former head of the United Kingdom Independence Party who led the campaign for Britain to return to being a sovereign country…

The latest poll quoted by the Guardian suggests that 34% of voters will vote for Mr. Farage’s party. Polls suggest support for the Conservatives, as the Tories are also called, has “collapsed,” amid the “Brexit uncertainty,” to just 11%. Labor, bedeviled by charges of anti-Semitism, is polling at 21%. The best showing of any “openly anti-Brexit” party, the Liberal Democrats, is 12%, the Guardian says.

The article goes on to speculate that Farage might even end up parlaying his support into a Prime Minister position some day. At the same time, it cautions that polls can be pretty meaningless.

So what does that leave us with? The usual uncertainty about elections these days.

Although I don’t exactly have my finger on the pulse of British politics (apparently I’m hardly alone in that), I do have a theory, which is that not only its Brexit stance but also the extreme and increasing leftism of the Labour Party has turned a lot of people off who might otherwise have supported them. Although political parties in Britain generally lean more to the left than their supposed American counterparts, what’s happening to Labour in Britain may be a similar phenomenon to what appears to be going on with Democrats in the US. The candidates have been so busy getting to the left of each other that they forgot that pleasing their leftist base isn’t quite enough to win more general elections.

Here’s an article about the British version:

During an interview by LBC’s Theo Usherwood to Nigel Farage, members of a crowd gathered around the Brexit Party leader voiced their discontent with Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to deliver a clear message on its Brexit stance. After admitting to the LBC presenter they would now rather vote for Nigel Farage than Jeremy Corbyn’s Party at the upcoming European elections despite having been Labour supporters for a long time, Mr Usherwood pointed out the former Ukip leader was the “antithesis” of Mr Corbyn’s policies.

But one woman in the crowd responded: “That’s beside the point.

“I know what I think, I’ve got my own feelings, my own thoughts.

“I voted to leave and I want to leave. Full stop.”

Another passionate Brexiteer in the crowd explained: “In this room, it’s all about trust and honesty.

“It’s filled with the people that all around the country are attending these Brexit rallies.

“And that’s because when Nigel is asked a question on mainstream TV or any interviews he answers it.

Interesting. So for a lot of people there are at least two things going on. One is that they wanted Brexit and they voted for it (even though these particular people were previously on the left), and they are completely turned off by what they see as the betrayal of their wishes by the superior, condescending “elites” of government.

Sound familiar?

The other is that they are also tired of the beat-around-the-bush, jargon-filled, obfuscating answers from said superior, condescending “elites” of government. They prefer straight talk.

I have no idea what will happen in these upcoming elections. But the build-up has certainly been interesting.