HOW entertaining the European and local election results have been. UKIP steamrollered the established parties, leaving them gibbering in their wake. And don’t they just deserve it? They’ve all but ignored the issues UKIP has focused on and it’s no wonder the disgruntled have deserted the two main parties, whose politics now meet in the middle so you can’t distinguish one from the other, and the lacklustre Lib Dems, who are tearing themselves apart.

They just don’t seem to get the fact that a lot of people are unsettled and worried about the huge influx of people into Britain. And the more the politically correct brand anyone who objects to it as racist, the more they steer them towards UKIP. The irony.

There’s an issue here – and it is a big one – about how mass immigration triggers territorial feelings among local populations and, importantly, feelings that this country is changing beyond recognition. They feel as if they have had no say in the open-door policy and that their feelings have been ignored and dismissed as “racist”.

So they are having their say now, with their vote. And unless the three main parties get their act together, they’ll be voting UKIP en masse next year too.