The British election results are in, and it’s a storming victory for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party. A 79-seat majority is their best performance since 1987 with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Labour Party seat tally is the worst since 1935. But the real winner here is Brexit — it’s almost certainly going to happen, and quickly.

English politics has, for decades, run on the standard left-right differentiations. Markets and capitalism on one side, and a more inclusive social democracy shading into actual socialism on the other. The usual social attitudes were attached, although perhaps with less vehemence than the American norm. The Right was apparently more in favor of families and such conservative issues, the Left talking more about race, gender, homosexuality, and the like.