Strange thought you may say, but imagine if those 4 million or so who voted UKIP 15 months ago had then got a few dozen M.P’s. What would have happened? On the face of it not a lot. You’d have a Tory/UKIP coalition. But over the following 15 months those UKIP reps would be subject to parliamentary discussion and scrutiny and media debate. Their lack of any coherent policies and programmes to follow Brexit, their internal squabbles and disagreements would have revealed the vacuum at their centre. And perhaps the British people might have had a better idea of what they were voting for 2 weeks ago.