N.B. In the event you are someone I fear and/or revere, I apologise for the foolhardy tone of this post and seek your hallowed forgiveness. For everyone else, I hope you’re both entertained and informed — in that order.

My prediction for 2015: UKIP has not made a blip on the House of Commons. Honestly, dear reader, it’s just good old-fashioned British common sense.

Before we get onto why UKIP cannot, under the current voting and political systems, get anywhere significant domestically or continentally; I feel it is only right to assume the British public would act somewhat rationally and would, as a whole in the general election, vote for a party that stands by favourable policies. Certainly UKIP has adopted various populist policies surrounding the EU and on immigration however their other policies — which (rather wisely) they tend to not highlight with any particular voracity — should strike the British public with a feeling of disdain and, I suspect in some cases, disgust. I’ve outlined two particularly disfavourable aspects of their agenda.