| ID | 149711 |
| Title Proper | Center that is melting away |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ananieva, E |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | THE EU REFERENDUM exposed a deep-cutting split in British society along the regional, age, social, educational, and, on the whole, class lines (the latter forgotten in the years of economic prosperity of postindustrial society).1 David Cameron organized the referendum in a hope to keep the Conservative Party united, to achieve reconciliation on the nationwide scale and bury the issue for at least another generation. The referendum, however, revealed the strengthening and so far latent trends of the last twenty years, which cropped up as the consistently mounting success of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) at the local, parliamentary and European parliamentary elections. In 2015, the "unfair" majority system left UKIP with one seat in the Commons (the system of proportional representation would have brought over 60 UKIP deputies to Westminster that corresponded to 12.6% of the gained votes).2 |
| `In' analytical Note | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 62, No.6; 2016: p.57-68 |
| Journal Source | International Affairs (Moscow) Vol: 62 No 6 |
| Key Words | EU ; Britain ; Referendum ; Parliamentary Election |