" Were they supposed to have consulted their crystal balls and pre-empted the election results?
This is what elections are for. It's not hard."
You may say so.
The electorate, in its present mood of cynicism and disenchantment with the main political parties, just sees patronising, posturing politicians who they feel don't care about the voters and who first of all ignored UKIP, then laughed them off and only at the last minute deemed them worthy of any kind of respect.
The UKIP phenomenon is as much about an attitude towards mainstream politics as about Europe or immigration.
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