# Tweet by [@keefmoon](http://twitter.com/keefmoon) on 2019-02-18 10:47:10 > [!INFO] Archived from [original tweet](http://twitter.com/keefmoon/status/1097447425105674241) The Labour split feel like this might be a seismic shift in UK politics. In the short term this might shift the center/left vote, but Labour has been such an ineffectual opposition for so long, that it doesn’t really matter. What emerges in the long term can hardly be worse.