Sadly, the derision and bias does not escape this academic.

Very, very few people are 'anti minority'. They are more often simply happy with their own heritage, and see no reason to have millions of people coming in, 'globalizing' the nature of their community.

The 'big lie' of the left is to paint people who want to live in their relatively normal villages, with relatively normal rates of cultural change as 'racist'.

UKIP are no more 'racist' than the ethnic Chinese or Italians, who, when arriving in Toronto chose to live in their own groups. There's nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly reasonable for a new immigrant to want to live among other like-minded people.

Only in the context of self-hating Westerners, doe they label this 'anti minority'.

Second - of course is the existential issue of Islam. There wasn't any strong national voice until this group came along.

If there were normal rates of immigration, and reasonable integration - there would be no FN or UKIP.