'No-one represents betrayed Brexiteers' Ukip attacked for accepting transition period

Matthew Goodwin, who teaches at the University of
Kent, hit out at Ukip's new leader for suggesting a
transition deal with the EU was needed to avoid a "car
crash".
Speaking to Niall Paterson on Sky News, the politics
professor said this policy shift would relegate Ukip to
the books of history.
He told Paterson there was a massive proportion of
the British population who have felt left behind by the
"betrayal of Brexit" led by the British political class.
Goodwin, who teaches at the University of Kent, hit
out at Ukip's new leader
Henry Bolton was elected Ukip leader in a shock result
Henry Bolton, who was elected Ukip leader yesterday
in a shock result, earlier told Sky News that a Brexit
transition deal was necessary to "avoid a car crash at
the border".
Both Labour and Conservatives have recently diluted
their Brexit plans by accepting the inevitability of a
transition period of around two years after 2019.
Mr Goodwin said this middle-ground mainstream policy
went against the radical, populist wave that triggered
the rise of Nigel Farage .
He said: "Ukip have been unable to come up with a
defining, uniting message for a post-Brexit Britain.
"One in three of their voters did not turn out at the
election in June, they effectively stayed at home.
"If they accept a transition period, that will be the end
of them. Small amateur radical political parties need
to be populist."
The politics professor said this policy shift would
relegate Ukip to the books of history
The professor hit out at the "mixed messages" of the
Ukip conference
The
professor explained: "There is space for a party that
wants to leave the EU immediately, that wants much
lower migration, and wants to stop freedom of
movement.
"A good 15 per cent or so of the electorate want that,
and no-one represents those positions at the moment.
"Ukip could sweep up those voters and became the
Brexit betrayal party, and put forward a
Brexit that Theresa May has ignored."
Mr Goodwin also urged the right-wing party to imitate
Jeremy Corbyn's success from speaking to "Britons
who are left behind by globalisation".

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