U.K. Conservative Revolt?

Interesting news from across the Atlantic ocean following gains by the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) in recent local elections.

UKIP's leader had stated the party will "oppose every single wind farm application".

Picture from U.K. "Commons speaker in turbine protest"

Westminster aides rattled by Ukip gains in local elections | Financial Times

Westminster officials returned to the Commons on Friday rattled by the strong showing by Ukip in Thursday’s local election and debating whether, in the words of one adviser, “this is the birth of four-party politics”.
If Ukip does want to be a permanent fixture on the British political landscape, however, it might find its biggest hurdle is Nigel Farage, the party’s leader.

Mr Farage on Friday said Ukip’s gains would “fundamentally change British politics”. But intriguingly, he went on to compare his party to the shortlived Social Democratic Party, whose popularity in the 1980s forced Labour to move to the right.

There was reference elsewhere to the possibility that UKIP might be more like Canada's Reform party than the UK's Social Democratic Party.
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