UKip success a response to federal Europe threat

In response to Mary Murphy, of the European Studies specialist group, the threat of UKip is a democratic reaction to a federal Europe.

Ms Murphy answers her question by stating that British votes are not in favour of closer economic and political integration.

While this may be surprising to academics, it is no surprise to politicians, as the EU has been sold to British and Irish voters as a common market since its inception, with more recent, broad, opaque statements, such as ‘pooling sovereignty’.