Having watched the UK Independence Party’s Nigel Farage deliver his brand of anti-immigration populism on the BBC’s Question Time last night, I keep coming back to these remarkable maps, below.
Voter support for UKIP appears to be almost perfectly correlated with parts of England that contain the lowest proportions of immigrants.
All those shops in UKIP areas of the country that sell flags of St. George should also sell life-size cardboard foreigners so that people have someone to hurl abuse at.
In fact, that is a very good idea for my next business…
Tags: British politics, immigration, Nigel Farage, UKIP