ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks factors that are subverting the status quo that it is legitimate to ask whether British politics, in common with other European polities, is undergoing a state of flux. The membership of the Scottish National Party(SNP) leapt to over 100,000 at the end of 2014 and membership of the UK Independence Party(UKIP) doubled from 2013 to over 40,000, and Green Party membership actually exceeded that of UKIP in early 2015. An authoritative academic study on UKIP's membership revealed that UKIP disproportionately attracts voters who are older, poorly educated and paid, white and angry. The level of cooperation and cordiality between the Lib Dems and the Conservatives varied over time, especially concerns the reform of the voting system, House of Lords reform as well as the redrawing of constituency boundaries. John Redwood insisted on 'English votes for English laws' (EVEL), which had a powerful political motive of rendering Scottish Labour MPs powerless to rule the UK as a whole.
