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is that UKIP's EU gravy train will be derailed.
For all the fulminating about the "anti-democratic" EU, UKIP and its politicians have done very well indeed out of proportional representation and the funding that's flowed into their coffers over the years, not to mention the links it's given them to far-right factions within the European Parliament, and without it, I doubt any of us would even know who Farage is.
They and their hangers-on, family members they've employed etc., have made a lot of money out of doing fuck all for their constituents except being disruptive, obstructive and completely unproductive.
One fun spectacle in the aftermath of the vote, predictably, came from David Coburn, Scotland's sole UKIP MEP, an example of what would happen if P.G. Wodehouse and Armando Armanucci collaborated to concoct a right-wing buffoon with delusions of competency.
BuzzFeed's Jamie Ross, whose beat includes hobnobbing with Coburn and cataloguing regular idiocy, interviewed him in the aftermath of the result.
Ross commented, "It looks like the value of the pound has plummeted in the last few hours ...".
Coburn replied: "Well one good thing about that is that I'm paid in euros."
