As a mixture of satire and political dystopian fiction, Ukip: the First 100 Days often worked. Atkins playfully sent up the banality of politicians’ imploring rhetoric. “If you looked into my heart, you would see it was red, white and blue,” declaimed Kaur with rather too little conviction at a conference in Romford. The state of panic induced by Airbus pulling out of the UK and the mollifying effect of a new “Festival of Britain” were funny and, alarmingly, not too far from the realm of reality.