'Ukip: The First 100 Days' Trailer Sees Riots And Job Cuts In Channel 4 Documentary

Ukip Election Win Sees Mass Unemployment And Riots In The Streets In C4 Drama
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Something horrific will play out on our screens tonight as Channel 4 imagines a world in which Ukip win the 2015 general election.

Thankfully the nightmare vision of a purple and yellow future is confined to the realms of fiction - for now at least.

So what happens in 'Ukip: The First 100 Days'? Well, we've only been given a sneak-peek in the trailer above but needless to say it doesn't look good.

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Oh lordy...

"You ain't seen nothing yet," says Nigel Farage and we fear he's right.

After rolling up to Downing Street puffing on a cigarette, Farage sets about withdrawing from the EU and closing the borders in scenes reminiscent of 'Children of Men'.

Then the riots start. Oh, and millions of people lose their jobs. Thanks Ukip.

The only predictable thing is that Nick Clegg looks pretty darn miserable.

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 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%".
(credit:ADRIAN DENNIS via Getty Images)
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)