'Ukip: The First 100 Days' Imagines Nigel Farage As Prime Minister And It's Terrifying

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A Ukip government would lead to riots in the streets and the loss of millions of jobs after the UK leaves the EU, according to Channel 4 docudrama screening tomorrow.

Ukip: The First 100 Days mixes archive footage with scripted scenes featuring actress Priyanga Burford playing the part of the party's only Asian woman MP.

Her character, elected for Romford in an imagined landslide that puts Nigel Farage in Number 10, is left grappling with her conscience as the new government brings in tough anti-immigration raids and withdraws from Brussels.

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Priyanga Burford

The show predicts riots in the streets between protesters for and against the raids and features a factory closing after EU withdrawal.

Burford, who said she is not a Ukip supporter, said her own politics were "irrelevant".

She said: "I didn't meet anyone from Ukip but I watched most of the conference speeches from the conference in Doncaster or generally I watched a lot of politicians speaking and a lot of politicians get in sticky situations."

Channel 4's head of documentaries Nick Mirsky said "a lot of research" went into the film and Mr Farage had been invited to watch it before broadcast.

He said: "We did invite Farage to come and do an interview after the programme in which case he would have seen it before it went out but he declined.

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A scene from the docudrama UKIP: The First 100 Days as a UKIP government would lead to riots in the streets and the loss of millions of jobs after the UK leaves the EU, according to the programme

"We do reflect that they say they're going to put more money in the NHS, we do reflect that they've got thoughtful, considered MPs, we do reflect various things about them but we suggest the ride over those first 100 days might be quite bumpy".

Richard Bond from RAW productions, which made the film, said the party's policies were a "bit of an unknown" so the show concentrated on its most widely-publicised wishes which he said were "leaving the EU and having a robust immigration policy".

He said: "When we conceived of it Ukip were the big political story and had a quite extraordinary result in the European elections and I guess for us at that point we just thought 'What if?' What if that kind of trajectory was projected into the future.

"One of the toughest things at the script stage was trying to write something plausible whilst what was happening in the real world was sometimes implausible. The day Mike Read released the Ukip calypso we all looked at each other and thought we certainly wouldn't have written that and had we people would have said this is completely mad and insane."

Ukip: The First 100 Days will screen Monday on Channel 4 at 9pm.

6 Times Ukip Showed It's Had A Very Chaotic Start To 2015

6 times that show Ukip's had a chaotic start to 2015
Panic in Portsmouth..(01 of06)
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The local parliamentary candidate, chairman and councillor quit the party after after Paul Lovegrove, who has convictions for wounding with intent, drug possession and actual bodily harm, was installed as party organiser.
In response, Nigel Farage insisted he is "totally reformed and we are standing by him 100%".
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Suspensions in Southend...(02 of06)
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Four Ukip councillors have been suspended after disowning local parliamentary candidate Floyd Waterworth in a selection row. Prior to taking action, group council leader James Moyies also leaked internal selection documents and lodged an internal complaint against Waterworth. Party chairman Steve Crowther has insisted that Waterworth is still backed as Ukip's candidate in Southend. (credit:Carl Court via Getty Images)
Hostility in Herefordshire...(03 of06)
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The local Ukip branch voted to dissolve itself following an outbreak of infighting concerning the selection of Nigel Ely as UKIP’s parliamentary candidate. Ukip MEP James Carver said this had been prompted by "negative influences from within’".
Fighting in Folkestone...(04 of06)
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Turmoil engulfed UKIP in Kent after a UKIP county councillor refused to back the parliamentary candidate for the Folkestone and Hythe seat, Janice Atkinson.Atkinson appeared to confirm the rift, saying: "This is a straightforward fight between UKIP and the Conservatives and infighting doesn’t help."
Chaos in Croydon...(05 of06)
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Ukip suspended Winston McKenzie, famous for calling Croydon a "dump", as their chairman of its Lambeth and Croydon branch after he received a letter of no confidence.The entire committee were also suspended and the branch was disbanded, after months of bickering over a claim that McKenzie and secretary Marianne Bowness misappropriated a £1,000 donation. McKenzie, who remained Ukip's parliamentary candidate for Croydon North, later admitted to the infighting, saying: "There were so many technical problems over the last 18 months and, to be honest, it all got a bit much. I’ll put my hands up."
War in Wales...(06 of06)
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Ukip Wales saw the resignation of its deputy chairman James Cole, who posted a vicious attack on his party on Facebook, writing that the party was "no longer a party of democracy". (credit:Matthew Horwood via Getty Images)