A return to to party system will be a disaster for devolution.

Could it be that Theresa May has some how saved the Union by bringing the UK back to a two Party state ?

The Result of the 2017 General election saw Labour and the Tories sharing 82..% of the vote between them

Party		Leader	MPs				Votes
				Of total		±		Of total		±
Conservative Party		Theresa May	317	48.8%	317 / 650	13	13,632,914	42.3%		5.4
Labour Party		Jeremy Corbyn	262	40.3%	262 / 650	30	12,874,985	40.0%		9.5
Scottish National Party		Nicola Sturgeon	35	5.4%	35 / 650	21	977,569	3.0%		1.7
Liberal Democrats		Tim Farron	12	1.8%	12 / 650	4	2,371,772	7.4%		0.5
Democratic Unionist Party		Arlene Foster	10	1.5%	10 / 650	2	292,316	0.9%		0.3
Sinn Féin		Gerry Adams	7	1.1%	7 / 650	3	238,915	0.7%		0.2
Plaid Cymru		Leanne Wood	4	0.6%	4 / 650	1	164,466	0.5%		0.1
Green Party		Jonathan Bartley Caroline Lucas	1	0.2%	1 / 650		525,371	1.6%		2.1
Speaker		John Bercow	1	0.2%	1 / 650		34,299	0.1%
Independent Unionist		Sylvia Hermon	1	0.2%	1 / 650		16,148	0.1%
UK Independence Party		Paul Nuttall	0	0.0%	0 / 650	1	593,852	1.8%		10.8
Social Democratic & Labour Party		Colum Eastwood	0	0.0%	0 / 650	3	95,419	0.3%
Ulster Unionist Party		Robin Swann	0	0.0%	0 / 650	2	83,280	0.3%		0.1
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland		Naomi Long	0	0.0%	0 / 650		64,553	0.

The Previous 2015 contest had seen them take 74.4 of the vote.

Party		Leader	MPs			Votes
				Of total			Of total
Conservative Party		David Cameron	330	50.8%	330 / 650	11,299,609	36.8%
Labour Party		Ed Miliband	232	35.7%	232 / 650	8,473,894	27.6%
Scottish National Party		Nicola Sturgeon	56	8.6%	56 / 650	1,454,436	4.7%
Liberal Democrats		Nick Clegg	8	1.2%	8 / 650	2,415,916	7.9%
Democratic Unionist Party		Peter Robinson	8	1.2%	8 / 650	184,260	0.6%
Sinn Féin		Gerry Adams	4	0.6%	4 / 650	176,232	0.6%
Plaid Cymru		Leanne Wood	3	0.5%	3 / 650	181,704	0.6%
Social Democratic & Labour Party		Alasdair McDonnell	3	0.5%	3 / 650	99,809	0.3%
Ulster Unionist Party		Mike Nesbitt	2	0.3%	2 / 650	114,935	0.4%
UK Independence Party		Nigel Farage	1	0.2%	1 / 650	3,881,099	12.6%
Green Party		Natalie Bennett	1	0.2%	1 / 650	1,157,630	3.8%
Speaker		John Bercow	1	0.2%	1 / 650	34,617	0.1%[177]
Independent Unionist		Sylvia Hermon	1	0.2%	1 / 650	17,689	0.06%[178]

Even under the Blair land slide the two main Parties only received 73.9 % of the vote.

Candidates						Votes
Party		Leader	Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	Tony Blair	639	418	145	0	+145	63.4	43.2	13,518,167	+8.8
	Conservative	John Major	648	165	0	178	–178	25.0	30.7	9,600,943	–11.2
	Liberal Democrat	Paddy Ashdown	639	46	30	2	+28	7.0	16.8	5,242,947	–1.0
	Referendum	James Goldsmith	547	0	0	0	0		2.6	811,849	N/A
	SNP	Alex Salmond	72	6	3	0	+3	0.9	2.0	621,550	+0.1
	UUP	David Trimble	16	10	1	0	+1	1.5	0.8	258,349	0.0
	SDLP	John Hume	18	3	0	1	–1	0.5	0.6	190,814	+0.1
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Wigley	40	4	0	0	0	0.6	0.5	161,030	0.0
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Adams	17	2	2	0	+2	0.3	0.4	126,921	0.0
	DUP	Ian Paisley	9	2	0	1	–1	0.3	0.3	107,348	0.0
	UKIP	Alan Sked	193	0	0	0	0		0.3	105,722	N/A
	Independent	N/A	25	1	1	0	+1	0.2	0.1	64,482	0.0
	Green	Peg Alexander and David Taylor	89	0	0	0	0		0.3	61,731	–0.2
	Alliance	John Alderdice	17	0	0	0	0		0.2	62,972	0.0

Much of this is due to the demise of the LIB Dem who no longer seem a home for disgruntled Tory or Labour voters to go to.


With many of the SNP seats now marginals a two party presidential contest should be of concern as a continuation of the Corbyn rise in support would threaten both the SNP and Plaid Cymru.


For those who argue for a Progressive Alliance should be concerned . Neither Corbyn or his Parliamentary Party who are currently hypocritically praising him are progressives . when it comes to voting reform or devolution.

Indeed  Labour may well be considering closing down any further devolution as they once again turn to Westminster solutions for everything.

That will necessitate destroying the SNP in Scotland even to the extent in allowing  the Tories to be the temporally vanguard of Unionism as they did in June's poll.

If there is a election in the Autumn in Scotland and Wales we could  wake up on the Morning after the poll to find Corbyn as Prime Minister the  and the Nationalist Parties all but wiped out.

Despite years of experience It will see Corbyn taking a Westminster Centralist   approach , which will once again not solve our problems,