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.
