"It was expected to do well. But the success of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the local elections held across Britain on May 2nd was nonetheless startling. An upstart right-wing party, of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”, according to Prime Minister David Cameron, UKIP won almost a quarter of the vote in the council wards it contested. By one reckoning, it was the biggest surge by a fourth party since the second world war.
Read : http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/05/britain-s-local-elections.
The umpthiest protest party which explodes in Europa (sorry, the UK is not in Europe ... ) as a direct result to the incompetence of Europa, the Commission, the EU and its armies of pen pushers ?
What if today or tomorrow a clown stands up with lots of charisma and a very dark and dangerous populist program ?
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