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The Gallant Old Republic wrote:

Why such a hatred for Tories? At any rate it is usually not good for any major party to unravel anywhere as this means extreme instability and close to autocratic rule by the remaining major party, since it has no effective opposition.

Honestly, British politics isn't quite as split by party as American politics is. Largely the biggest split is Remain/Leave, with Remain-favouring Labour supporters and Remain-favouring Tories having more in common than Leave-favouring politicians.

The crazy thing is that before the referendum, MPs across all parties were almost unanimous in saying that Brexit was a bad idea. What you have now amongst MPs is an ideological divide between those who don't like Brexit but who believe in the referendum's democratic mandate, and those who don't like Brexit and want to see it stopped or mitigated as much as possible. Meanwhile the small number of MPs who actually believe in Brexit represent a vocal minority.

The mainstream parties are haemorrhaging support - it's like if everyone in the US declared that they don't like Republican OR Democrat.

TBH, after the next general election will probably be the best time ever for proportional representation to be pushed through, as we're almost certainly going to end up with a coalition government of 3 or more parties anyway.