Eventually Deepa Kaur puts two and two together (that it takes her 100 days is a damning indictment of the education system) and denounces Nige’s gang on national TV.  The philosophy behind this plot is grim. Aside from presenting all white working-class people as being a right-racist-cockney-barrel-of-monkeys, we are also meant to conclude that a) ethnic minorities who vote conservatively are betraying their race and that b) centre-right populism is nascent fascism. The first proposition is too absurd to waste time on. The second deserves some debunking.  If Nigel Farage is a fascist then so, too, are Ed Miliband and David Cameron. The difference between their immigration policies is now wafer thin and their rhetoric eerily similar. The only significant distinction between them is that at the heart of Ukip’s policy is ending uncontrolled legal immigration from Europe and replacing it with a global points system – an approach that is substantially less racist than the one currently mandated by the EU (it would mean saying “no” to an unskilled German but “yes” to a skilled Pakistani).  The First Hundred Days makes a great deal about military-style round-ups of illegal immigrants but a) this has already happened in France (where, obscenely, the gipsy population was deported en masse) and b) it’s not dissimilar to Labour’s policy of targeting employers of illegal labour. It would also be unnecessary if the government bothered to patrol the borders properly. The documentary showed the police targeting black and Asian employees, which is odd because the actual target of Ukip’s policy is, again, white unskilled labour from the EU. This discrepancy betrays the programme maker’s rather old fashioned take on racial politics: they think they’re talking about the 1970s National Front.  Priyanga Burford starred as Deepa Kaur in Ukip: the First 100 Days Photo: Channel 4  Finally, The First Hundred Days shows Britain descending into mass unemployment and riots as a result of Ukip’s policies. Well, mass unemployment we’d had already – and riots we have known before, too. Which implies that any social discord isn’t down to Right-wing policies that have never properly been enforced or even seriously entertained, but some wider unhappiness that parts of the Left are too dense to notice. Oh yes, there’s something wrong about modern Britain. But Farage didn’t start the fire.  Indeed, isn’t it odd that at a time of rising anti-Semitism and urban terrorism, the Left is far more worried about the rise of Ukip? Particularly odd considering that Ukip barely attracts a fifth of the vote and really won’t get more than half a dozen seats in May. Indeed, the whole premise of The First Hundred Days – that Nigel Farage might be invited to form a government – was so far-fetched that it spoke to the febrile imaginings of so many on Britain’s bedroom-dwelling Left. They exist in a world of recession, caliphates, cyberterrorism and grotesque political corruption. Yet what do they think is the greatest threat to Western liberty? The Women’s Institute.  The makers of this programme are hysterical and ahistorical. To conflate Ukip with fascism is to reduce the genuine threat that real fascism poses to European stability. You see, Ukip’s eccentric patriotism is a very British kind of patriotism – its goal is actually to cut the UK off from European politics and thus inoculate it against the continent’s extremism. If you want to see what real fascism looks like, go to France or Greece and observe the return of racism that the blessed EU has fostered. A programme about the first hundred days of a Le Pen government could be genuinely sobering. The constant media drumbeat against Ukip is, by contrast, a strange distraction.
The Ukip that this daft mockumentary imagined is fascism dressed up as   populism. Which distracts from the genuine fascism on the continent &ndash; much   of it caused by the EU