And now the thing we weren't supposed to be in

In little over a week in Britain we go to the polls in an election few wanted nor expected to take place at all since the referendum to leave in 2016 and had the timetable to leave been kept to simply would never had happened.
But it certain doesn't feel like an election is taking place with posters, meetings featuring local party leaders with candidates and leaflets of any sort coming through the door to the point only on Monday May 13 did we have the first Party Political Broadcast for it shown on public tv.
The two main parties were trounced soundly in the English local government elections with the ruling Conservatives losing over 1,300 seats more than they had in a quarter century and the opposition Labour party failing to capitalize on the sheer chaos over Brexit to the point they too lost seats.
In my region three council areas are in No Overall Control, two more than last time that cover the North Staffordshire Region ditto much of the Cheshire area.
Part of the reason why things nationally as the way they is the European Union doesn't divide the parties themselves into different groups it divides each individual party more so with such a sharply polarized take that even last minute attempts between senior Labour and Conservatives to find a withdraw look likely to fail because each parties regular Mp's and members are hostile to it and each other.
This would explain the so low key you wouldn't know it was happening lack of campaigning by both parties they don't have their heart in something each party is hopelessly split over to the point labour were even struggling to cobble together a manifesto that wasn't being condemned by its own members.
To me there is strange thing haunting the political scene and it appears to be the effective demise as single coherent parties of Labour and the Conservatives who cannot 'fudge' this issue of our time and the emergence of newer groupings with clear cut positions such as The Change UK party  (The Independant Group) who are pro-remaining in the EU and the Brexit Party who are for leaving as the majority of people voted for with no special relationship or agreement with the EU.
As it is independent opinion polls suggest the Brexit party would gain a lot of votes which with the proportional representation system would produce a lot of European Members of Parliament who would be very embarrassing for the current government and add fuel for changing the way the EU works as not everyone on Continental Europe agrees with it even if they don't wish to leave unlike us.