h/t Instapundit
[MailOnline] - There is a troubling new divide running through our country, but it is not the one that people like to imagine. It is best shown by the Election result in affluent Putney, West London, where, in a rare victory, the Labour party gained a seat from the Conservatives.
Putney, like Kensington and Chelsea, is filled with rows of over-priced £1 million homes where residents would have faced huge tax hikes if Labour got into power. Yet the constituency still decided to vote for the socialist experiment that Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were promising ‐ and in so doing, upended a whole set of presumptions.
On the other hand, a seat like Bolsover, in Derbyshire, did something unheard of. Dennis Skinner had been the sitting Labour MP for nearly half a century, and made it a byword for the hardcore Labour heartlands.
In Bolsover you can buy a nice semi-detached house for about £100,000 ‐ one tenth of Putney’s prices. But it was Putney that went Left and Bolsover Right.
Not that Left and Right are the correct way to describe the extraordinary upheaval of this last week.
The real chasm which has arisen is between a Conservative party that committed itself to fulfilling the will of the people, and two Left-wing parties which had devoted the past three-and-a-half years to subverting it. 
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