The crushing Conservative win is bad enough, but I predicted it a long time ago, and one can at least hope that Boris will be less of a thug with a comfortable majority. The real tragedy, however, is that the Lib Dems did so poorly. Labour is still, even with Corbyn as its leader, the predominant party of the left.
The UK needs a responsible center-left party, just as the US needs a decent center-right party, and doesn’t have one. As long as Corbyn remains Labour’s leader, and he clearly doesn’t plan to step down anytime soon, that simply cannot happen. If left-leaning British voters won’t desert Labour even under these circumstances, what hope does the country have for a plausible opposition party in the future?