While probably won't happen before 2024, anybody see a similar re-alignment in UK to US? I am thinking Red Wall shifts permanently to Tories, but Labour is able to gain many shires, home counties in South long term in exchange so rather than divide by class, divide is more by education as is case in US.
Rachel Sylvester suggests something fairly interesting: that it is more surprising these places weren't already voting Tory. Places in the North with similar demographics, levels of home ownership etc. to places in the South were voting to the left of the South, due to atavistic hostility to the Conservative Party. Brexit and Corbyn have shattered this, and these people who 'want to get on in life' - which they perceive the Tories as letting them do - are now voting as you might have expected.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/labour-needs-to-embrace-aspiration-to-appeal-to-the-whole-country-not-just-the-red-wall
And Labour "home county" gains will be limited by who and what Labour *is*--that is, you'd really have to set up a "Lab Dem" unified entity to consolidate that kind of breakthrough, much like the grand coalitions behind the US Dems and the Libs in Canada...
