To be fair (not words I ever thought I’d write re UKIP - and on second thoughts, no, fuck them) his rather abstruse point was that the plague in UK resulted in huge societal change, which UKIP (fuck them) might also try to claim they have triggered.
One example he gave later in the interview was that the plague meant serfs could tell their masters to fuck off, and they went to the cities or elsewhere to earn a living rather than subsist in serfdom. A shortage of labour had a very democratising (in the loosest, non-technical, sense of the word) effect.
Sadly UKIP (fuck them) was never about democratising, it was about lies, innuendo and dog-whistles to make people think there was a problem where there wasn’t really, and to the extent there was there were many other solutions than Brexit. They targetted their lies so that “the people” would come to see the EU as the root cause, when in fact for all its faults, the EU should have been part of the solution.
So, again, in case I was not clear, fuck UKIP. I hope their official death will be soon and permanent. As for their new home, the Tory/Nasty Party, I suppose that while I’m here I might as well say: fuck them, too.
(Edited to make sure every UKIP mention was followed by “fuck them”. It can’t be said often enough.)
