Now that the dust has settled on the European and local election results in May, it is worth reflecting a little more on UKIP's dramatic success. Much has been said about the party's appeal to older voters, who are seduced by its nostalgic recollections of former times untrammelled by European bureaucracy and authoritarianism, and waves of immigration. Much criticism has been levelled at the unwillingness of past and present governments to get to grips with the "immigration question", thereby leaving the space open for UKIP's leader Nigel Farage to introduce his mythical but mischievous "evidence" about the risk of becoming overrun by Bulgarians and Romanians, and others from the rest of the European Union.
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