Political Earthquake in Britain.

Party Symbol of UKIP.

The European Parliament went to polls and the results are shocking when we look at Britain. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is leading all the way.

UKIP has changed the face of politics in Britain with its historic victory at home in the European elections. But it's so much bigger than that. All across the democratic world a revolution is underway.

UKIP's incredible victory in Britain, against all the odds and in the face of a mainstream smear campaign that would have shamed Goebbels will cheer its own supporters. It will frighten the Conservatives and Labour, and it will send shock waves across Europe.

It is over 100 years since a national election has been won by a party other than the Conservatives and Labour. 




What's more the UKIP did it by winning seats not just in every region of England but in Wales and Scotland too. 

This revolution is like tectonic plates which have moved. And that thing, that gigantic wave that you see on the horizon is not a bad weather event, whatever the establishment may have persuaded it to believe. It is a historic shift which the politics is witnessing world-wide.  It's got momentum. And there's nothing you can do to stop it.

All over the democratic world in what we used to call The West we are witnessing nothing less than a revolution. From the United States, through Britain, through Western Europe and central and eastern Europe, to the democracies from India to South Africa, the people have had enough of being patronised. They want to take power back into their own hands. The kind of "dominated democracy" we have become used to will no longer do.

In terms of the European elections, Europe has reverted to type. In Britain, with UKIP, the breakout from the old establishment has moved in a democratic direction. UKIP isn't perfect; it's rough round the edges; it requires, and will get, required skills. But it is fundamentally democratic: it is of the people and for the people, and it is quintessentially and classically liberal.

And by all this I mean a revolution that is changing everything. We need to think about the "low trust society". We need to think about the "digital revolution". We need to rip up the old assumptions. 

The time is changing. Are we changing too? If we think of ourselves as being serious, it’s a question we’d better be able to answer.