As predicted and noted yesterday, The Change UK Party aka ‘Chuka’s Cuckers’ have split. Six of the party’s current MP’s, none of whom were elected on a Change UK ticket but who defected from Labour and the Tories, have left the party.

Change UK is now, to borrow a phrase or two from Monty Python, an ex-party which has gone to join the political choir invisible along with other attempts to ‘break the mould’ of British politics such as the Social Democratic Party, the British Union of Fascists and Lord Taverne’s Democratic Labour vehicle. The departure of Heidi Allen, Chuka Umunna, Sarah Wollaston, Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Gavin Shuker has severely wounded, maybe fatally, the Change UK Party.

The resignations from Change UK of these MP’s has left Change UK with five MP’s and is now led by Anna Soubry. Ms Soubry now leads a party that is all but doomed. This I find somewhat fitting bearing in mind how she defied the views of her own constituents and campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union. She’s leading a party that has a remarkable resemblance to the Judean Popular Peoples Front in the Life of Brian movie. It’s a party that is not quite a one man band but has the potential to end up as one. It is a political grouping with no members elected under their banner, no support among the population and no policies that may get widespread support.

Change UK is a political vehicle mostly for those whose hubris and arrogance apparently knows no bounds. With a few exceptions, such as for the case of Ms Luciana Berger who joined the Cuckers because Labour had become a Jew hating Islam party, a lot of those in the Change UK group were those who in various ways looked down on the ordinary man or woman on the British street. Anna Soubry for example disliked the fact that we the people chose to leave the EU and chose to try to annul the course of action that the electorate had decided should be taken. Chuka, another leading light of the Cuckers, has been caught out calling ordinary people ‘trash’ and is the epitome of the term ‘champagne socialist’.

I very much doubt that Change UK will exist after November 2019. If Britain leaves the EU at the end of October then there will be little reason for Change UK to even exist as an entity. They will have lost the argument and will, in the post Brexit world, have nothing of value to say or contribute.