UK Ignorance Party

So we all throw our hands up in the air and wail over the fact that yet another UKIP candidate turns out to have a social media history full of racist comments.  I really don't know why the media express horror and surprise over these incidents - surely they aren't naïve enough to believe that UKIP is really a proper political party devoted to the democratic process which just happens to attract the odd bigot and nutter. It's always been the BNP for the middle classes.  A home for Daily Mail reading bigots who'd be terribly offended if you called them racists - it's got nothing to do with ethnicity, they hate all foreigners.  The whole anti-EU schtick provides them with a pseudo-rationale for their xenophobia and blinkered Little Englander outlook.  The party also allows these privileged beige supremacists to cast themselves as political 'outsiders', oppressed and ignored by the mainstream parties, despite the fact that UKIP itself is led by a wealthy public-school educated former City-type.  How does that make them 'different' to, say, the Tories, or more representative of the interests of the under-privileged than, say, the Labour Party?

Ultimately, UKIP appeals to people's ignorance: ignorance of the facts about immigration, ignorance about any culture beyond that of their narrow circle of family, friends and acquaintances and ignorance of any issues which extend beyond getting the pot holes in their street filled and those off-white neighbours deported.  The worst thing about them is their contemptuous attitude toward actually doing their jobs: representing the electorate.  Let's not forget that the likes of Nigel Farage are happy to get themselves elected to the European Parliament and pocket every Euro they can possibly claim from the very organisation they profess to hate, yet fail to actually represent their constituents.  But it isn't just as MEPs that they have no respect for the democratic system - just look back at the last round of local elections, when many UKIP candidates couldn't be bothered to turn up for the counts, often having gone on holiday, even when they'd won.  What a bunch of bastards.  Yet, incredibly, there are apparently significant numbers of idiots out there still prepared to waste their votes on them.  Roll on the revolution, brothers and sisters, I can see that it's going to be only way to restore some measure of sanity to this country...