I am very worried indeed about the news we all woke up to this morning. The country seems to be falling for a con: it is being duped by a beer-drinking toff and a party of bigots, seeking to return us to the politics of the nineteen-fifties. We should all be appalled by everything UKIP stand for, from their blatantly xenophobic stance on Europe to their ultra-neoliberal stance on economics to their draconian stance on education and their ambition to restore the outdated unfair grammar and secondary-modern system. Yet people seem to be falling for such shallow selfishness in their droves, so that now we have one of them befouling the palace of Westminster. The question is, what do we, who value multiculturalism, who want to participate in something bigger than the state, we who see individualism and neoliberalism for the childish greed it is, we who see the value of every person in this country regardless of gender, skin colour or ability, we who cherish the NHS and welthfare state; what can we do to counter these unthinking heirs to Goebbels and their cheap, easy yet unthinking solutions? How do we stop this growing madness – what can we do other than watch the news in growing horror, hoping that everyone soon comes to their senses and sees UKIP for the xenophobic folly it is?