Send in the clowns

"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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