Au contaire.

The right wing of British politics has come to the fore in the past few years. The "success" of the likes of Farage and the ERG has mirrored the rise of far right groups across Europe.

Whilst the Labour party has always had a minority of far left wingers they are nothing like as powerful as far right wing groups in the Conservative party.

Stanron is quite correct though when he suggests that all politics in the US is quite a distance to the right of what we consider to be "centrist"