Nigel Farage has hailed the emergence of UKIP as the “third force” in British politics, after they won the most seats in the European elections.
UKIP has won around 25% of the vote around the UK, but only managed to gain around 7% of the vote in London because of the “cultural, educated, and young” population in the capital, according to a party spokesperson.
It is clear from the local election results that there are some interesting and fairly nuanced things happening.
UKIP may have thought they would be riding a wave of support from the public when they launched the Twitter hashtag #WhyImVotingUKIP, but the ever sarcastic British Twitterati were quick to mock the campaign.
Imagine Fawlty Towers without the ironic bits. Switch the jokes from Germans to Romanians or homosexuals and what you get is UKIP.