An archaic electoral system and level polling between Labour and the Conservatives suggests a messy outcome in tomorrow’s United Kingdom general election.

Center-left and center-right pundits are buzzing about the dangers posed by this unprecedented instability. The cracks in the Westminster system are deepening as the contradictions of Britain’s hyper-marketized society fizzle.

Electorally, there seems to be little room for the Left. As has been the case since the 1970s, it’s the Right that is marking political territory. Calling for disengagement from the rest of the world, greater austerity, and traditionalism in social policy — and with more than one in ten voters outside of Scotland poised to back them — it’s the “Poundland Powellism” of United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) that’s making gains.