These west indies failed because the lack of local popular support, competing insular nationalism, the weakness of the federal government, prohibitions on federal taxation and freedom of movement, inadequacies in the Federal constitution, fundamental changes made to the constitution very early in its existence, political feuds between.
Explanation:
The reason why the west indies federation collapsed was because internal political conflicts.
their intention was to make a political unit that would be independent from Britain as a single party system. but before that, internal political conflicts caused the federation to collapse.
