The UK has not left the European Union. It has (narrowly) voted to do so, and it has issued the EU with formal notification of its intention to leave, and the obvious assumption is that it will in fact leave, but right now the UK is still in the EU and it’s probably not impossible for it to stay in if its politicians thought they would improve their chances of reelection by making that happen.
I agree that UKIP seems to have had a lot of influence despite being a small party. I do wonder whether a group with similar goals that wasn’t an actual political party could have had comparable influence, but on the whole I think probably not.
The UK has not left the European Union. It has (narrowly) voted to do so, and it has issued the EU with formal notification of its intention to leave, and the obvious assumption is that it will in fact leave, but right now the UK is still in the EU and it’s probably not impossible for it to stay in if its politicians thought they would improve their chances of reelection by making that happen.
I agree that UKIP seems to have had a lot of influence despite being a small party. I do wonder whether a group with similar goals that wasn’t an actual political party could have had comparable influence, but on the whole I think probably not.