Election reflections and the Farage factor

Britain is retreating into greater socialism. The political landscape will alter accordingly. But it is Nigel Farage who could go into the history books.

While the world appears to be shifting to the so-called right (Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, and potentially the US), Britain and France have veered into deepening socialism.

It is against this depressing background that Nigel Farage has been elected as a Member of the UK Parliament. As the son of a stockbroker and as a commodity trader he obviously has a free market background. But importantly for politics, he is an effective public speaker with a distinctive personality at a time of universal bureaucratic dullness. He has the potential to become considerably more important than a mere backbencher parroting official policies.