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I am attempting to reconcile how the recent ground-breaking results of the UK local elections have failed to be recognised here in Malta in any significant manner. The UK electorate clearly sent out a message to the incumbent coalition government that its policies are not working (as the electorate did here in the recent general election) and will not be tolerated.

Crucially, an even bigger message was sent out with the vote for UKIP’s policies, rather than a mere protest vote being registered. UKIP, headed by Nigel Farage (pictured) was the biggest gainer.

So why should this be of interest to Malta? Because this party is vehemently anti-EU and wants – nay demands – a referendum for the people to decide if the UK should remain part of this undemocratic, technocratic, tyrannical and financially wasteful cabal cavalierly sucking the lifeblood out of the taxpayers.

Should we take note and be afraid – not of the UK leaving the EU but of the possible domino effect such a potential (read highly likely) departure may have on other disenfranchised and disaffected countries? These are fed up to the back teeth of the EU’s tax-free, unaccountable elite hierarchy treating their members, and in particular the eurozone, as their own personal fiefdom and bottomless money bucket. They issue diktats and edicts to suit their own personal ambitions and needs and most certainly not to help the people they purport to represent – with Cyprus being a classical example, to name but one.

A clear, defining message has been sent out by the people of the UK: they want their own governemnt to determine their own destiny, laws and currency and not some drain-on-resources buffoons in Brussels.

Are we heeding their message?