Ukip, is anti-Europe useful?

He drinks and smokes too much, as his wife has admitted. Nonethless, Ukip leader Nigel Farage, the right-wing party that intends to bring Great Britain outside the EU, is a source of everyone’s concern: starting from Premier David Cameron to opposition leader Ed Miliband. Not to mention the Liberal-democrat Nick Clegg. In power, but in serious crisis. Favourable surveys. Recent surveys show that Ukip (United Kingdom Independence Party), markedly anti-European, has a 19% consensus, a 4% increase since Brussels’ latest unpopular requests to Great Britain to regularize the contribution to the European budget with a contribution of 2.1 billion euro by the first week of December. Elected for the first time in Westminster’s seat past September, thanks to an MP who left the Conservatives to join Farage, the party has almost defeated also the Labor party for the first time in the polling station of Heywood and Middleton. Today all eyes are set on Rochester and Strood, where November 20 another conservative, Mark Reckless, could inflict the umpteenth to Cameron. Those who remain behind. For Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics at Nottingham university – author of the volume “Revolt on the right”, a detailed study on the political formation of Farage – Ukip is so successful because it attracts those who were “left behind”, namely the working classes worried about migration and no longer represented by the largest parties. “UKIP voters”, Goodwin pointed out, “are not rich and have a right-wing approach in the economy. They are nationalists, supporters of traditional moral values, against migration. UKIP is a radical right party, like other parties in Europe, but its greatest support is given by former Communist and Socialists”. The Leader figure. A large part of UKIP’s success is due to its leader Nigel Farage. Professor Goodwin describes him as a “very efficient and fortunate politician who arrived at the right moment. Farage is charismatic, he is a good speaker and is very good at keeping the party united. The risk of these anti-system movements is that they tend to break up since this form of opposition can easily turn into internal position, even against the same party’s leader. Farage works on the trenches, with the basis of the party, which is extremely important”. However, the author of “Revolt on the right” believes there is no risk that UKIP will bring Great Britain outside the European Union. “Even if it were successful” in the next political elections, “Farage’s party will have no more than 6-12 seats, owing to the way in which our electoral system functions”, Goodwin said. “The risk that Great Britain may leave the EU is not linked to Ukip’s victory but to the possible victory of the Conservatives, since David Cameron is the one who has promoted a referendum on Britain’s presence in the EU”. The EU is growing more popular… The political expert added: “Latest surveys show that the public opinion is precisely on the opposite side. Support to the European Union is increasing, paradoxically, because many voters in Great Britain are against Ukip. And the more they associate the vote for the pro-independence party with the vote to leave the EU, the more they are yearning to stay with Brussels”. Indeed, according to Professor Goodwin, “there isn’t a risk of EU breaking up under the blow of right-wing movements’ growth across Europe, since the latter remain minority parties under 20-25%. Moreover, in each Country it is increasingly difficult to create governments with a stable majority”. “Brussels is the one that must change”. The best formula to resist right-wing parties, according to Goodwin, is a greater flexibility of EU institutions. “It is of no help”, the Professor said “as Barroso did, to constantly complain for the British presence and to respond to all of Cameron’s proposals with cold showers. The result is the infuriation of English voters to no avail”. “A small group of large Countries – such as France and Germany – telling others which pace of the music they have to dance to is no good. The European Union must change if it wants Great Britain to continue being a part of it”, Goodwin concluded.