[Nedusa]

Just caught up reading the posts on this thread, some good comments by Joeysteele who talks more sense than a lot of Politicians.

I think UKIP are the protest vote party for a variety of reasons not just a knee jerk reaction to percieved mass immigration.

More a general protest vote by voters of all main parties who are fed up with their party's leaders performance ie Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband and their Party's performance since the last election.

I still think the abscence of any referendum on Britains future in Europe is still the major factor for UKIP's success and I think given similar voting sentiments in other European Country's the leaders of the Govt's in these main European Countries may seek to open a debate on the future of the European Project.

Failure now to address this issue could cause some of these major political parties to lose huge numbers of votes to right and far right parties across Europe.