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  I'd imagine that if Waters (or even perhaps Whittle, although he's a little too old) were to win then UKIP would seek to follow the German model and become a kind of Alternative für Großbritannien. In this guise they could tap in to the marrow-deep racism of a good number of the UK electorate and do quite well in terms of votes but, in the absence of some form of PR, they’ll have virtually no chance of parliamentary representation any time soon.
  
  Some of the disaffected UKIPers could in that case follow Farago into a Will the Real Tories Please Stand Up Party which will begin its assault on parliament by means of the acquisition of a couple of backbench Tory chancers, but will have about as much impact in terms of national representation as UKIP did.
  
  Should Bolton, or any of the other contenders, win then it'll plod on with steadily decreasing importance and Farago, narcissist that he is, will probably start his own party anyway just to keep his beery mug on the telly.

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