British politics collapsed its historic center into soft-left and hard-right poles

Evidence

Which brings us to the photograph analysed so well by Jonathan Jones in the Guardian. But, in addition to everything that Jones picks out, one of the most striking elements in the photograph is the empty centre. A clustering to the left, sulking Farage to the right, Cameron and Clegg — the current “centre” ground — absent. Here is one picture of a post-neoliberal UK: a soft left regaining its confidence on the one hand, a glowering far right on the other, nothing where the capitalist realist “middle” used to be. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1777

Categorization

• XREF: This is a concrete crystallization of Fisher’s own capitalist realism thesis in his book of the same name.