Its a catastrophe! (for the LibDems)
Its terrible!! (for the European Union)
Its awful!!! (for the conservatives and even worse for Labour)
And its the end of the world!!! (for Nick Clegg)

Europe has spoken!! And, with one voice, it has said: WE DON’T WANT ‘EUROPE’. Well, ‘Europe’ can be there but just as a collective term for the continent, not as some kind of homogenous unit of Euro-ness. Not as some brotherhood of nations, all equal under one currency, except for Germans who are touch more equal than everyone else. And not as some kind of open-bordered wonderland in which the unemployed peasant scum from the Eastern reaches are given a warm welcome in every country until they can find one that will fund their every need and desire without any requirement of ‘work’. Or ‘Britain’ as its known.

UKIP basically stormed the European parlaimentary elections here. Massively. Similarly, in France, the (fucking) National Front stormed to Euro victory. Right wing parties winning was the theme across all of the Euro-voting and yet… and yet…

Greece; the most nazied-up, almost-swastika wearing Golden Dawned bunch of uber-fascists, in fact voted en masse for a very left-wing but very ANTI-EUROPE party.

So the trend in fact was not one of swing to the right (praise The Lord for small mercies) but swinging away from the European Union.

What Nigel Farrage and UKIP have to be admired about is for thier fundamental understanding of ‘the common man’. In most cases, very common, almost and oik. Doesn’t matter what we think of him cos rightly or wrongly, he gets the same vote as Mr Eton and Oxbridge. But he doesn’t understand quite as much and he gets bored much more quickly so has a limited attention span.
So its all very well for Grant Schapps, Conservative party chairman, to bang on about how ‘the message has been received loud and clear from these elections’ (the ‘message’ to his party being, effectively: FUCK OFF!!) so the Tories just need to ratify this and realign that and strategise the fundamental algorithms of euro-memberness.
And its all very well for the Lib Dems to say that they had the right message (stay in Europe) but unfortunately it was just a message no-one wanted to listen to. Because the message was too long, way too intricate, too complicated, and too Cleggish.

What Farrage realised it that less is more. That simplicity is all. That feed a man enough and he’ll be satisfied. He doens’t need a Roman feast of information. Especially when he’s a bit dim to being with.

So UKIP’s message was this:

There’s zillions of Romanians and Bulgarians coming HERE. To rob us, rape our pets, steal our homes, fornicate publicly, drink our booze and get handouts from the government in millions.

We need to have control of our borders to stop this travesty.

But we can’t if we are in Europe because they make the rules.

Ergo we need to leave Europe, take control of our borders, control immigration, save our Labradors from Bulgarian rapists. (Ok, now sing the first 3 verses of Land of Hope and Glory).

Simple message, small bits, single theme. So easy. And that’s what mainstream politics needs to learn. If you can’t simplify something; don’t use it. Or else you are seen as overcomplicating or really fucking patronising.

British politics may indeed improve as a result of this seeminly awful result. Assuming it recovers at all.

Happy (Black) Monday

A xxxx