This is by a university academic about the rise of UKIP. Full of (to me) uninteresting graphs, but the basic narrative was quite interesting.
UKIP’s origins are not ‘right wing’ and the party has had an uneasy and sometimes competitive relationship with the BNP. It’s origins were anti-Maastricht (which imposes laws on a trading union) rather than anti-EEC, which my father was always very pro (but one of the prime drivers for the EEC was agriculture: Jim Prior who was Thatcher’s minister of agriculture and who my father must have known died this week).
A lot of UKIP support comes from the disenfranchised northern working class, very like Trump. So I learned a few things.
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