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To be fair - a lot of people ironically follow Joey Barton's nuggets of wisdom on Twitter and considering how alienated the vast majority of the population is from the politics of the UK I can only imagine that trying to draw people in with controversial media figures is the best way to get people to tune in. I think UKIP getting any kind of traction in the UK is simply because the current state of play of politics is dismal and people are fed up and are taking their frustrations out by voting for a radical extremist party. I don't think people are any more inherently racist than they have been in the past, it's just that there's nothing worth voting for in this country so they're getting behind the only party with bold views on anything.