Why Ukip will descend into sectarian chaos

Yes, yes, I know it’s supposed to be ‘unfair’ that Ukip ended up with only one MP while securing 13 per cent of the popular vote. But that’s first-past-the-post for you. You have to win a seat to get into Parliament. The British electorate was offered the chance to to ditch FPTP back in 2011 and said, nope, we’ll keep the unfair system.

As for Ukip coming second and third in all those Labour seats, it’s impressive but I suspect not terribly significant. White northern working-class voters were protesting against the fact that none of the major parties gave a toss about the destruction of their communities by the merciless progress of modernisation. Many of them blamed this on immigrants; how many of them were racists is difficult to say, because ‘racism’ can mean almost anything these days. They were also angered by the growth of self-policing Muslim ghettoes some of whose ‘community leaders’ ignored the atrocious rape of non-Muslim girls.