UKIP’s rise reflects absent progressive political outlets, not intrinsic racism

Evidence

In Scotland, the response to betrayal took a progressive form; in England, it assumed a reactionary mode. Partly, this is because there was no progressive outlet available in England. Working-class English voters alienated from Labour’s Oxbridge elite were left a choice between a UKIP that deliberately talked up its appeal to working families, and an array of small left-wing parties to whose message they were not exposed and which had no chance of being elected. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1852

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch87’s claim that Islamism rose because the left’s demise left no other outlet for Muslim rage — the identical structural argument.