Crossing the Styx

In the wake of UKIP's victory, one can't expect tabloids to be balanced because they don't respect their readers but at least The Times and The Telegraph give voice to pro-EU voices to give both sides of the story.  Oh, sorry, how remiss of me - both are run by EU-phobes, where the prevailing attitude is that (continental) Europe is a lovely place, shame about the (continental) Europeans.  Indeed, 'Europe' is configured as elsewhere.  Even Boris 'the Animal' Johnson knows this isn't true (asked by Mark Lamarr a decade ago about Europe-as-code-for-EU, Bojo replied, "Ha ha, trick question, of course we are in Europe." to which Lamarr changed the subject to his rhetorical flourish).
David Davis was given space in The Telegraph to demand an early referendum on EU membership.  Nigel Lawson in today's Times says he would vote for an exit in 2017 (the likely date if the Conservatives get their way).  The former chancellor of the exchequer seems not content with spreading anti-climate change lies by his Polish coal firm-funded institute (the financial backing is just a coincidence, I'm sure), but now wants to complete his selfish baby boomer image by floating Britain off into the Atlantic (no doubt begging to be formally admitted as the 51st state.  The Byzantine empire is the only polity in the last thousand years to be absorbed by a former surrogate - Venice).  What's the matter Lawson - have you not received your Bilderberg invite?  Is the memory of Alan Clark and his diaries increasingly filling you with bitterness?  Lawson thinks he can spout any old rubbish, just because he has a luscious daughter, a so-called domestic goddess (and that he was such an arse he effectively named her after him).  Bearing this in mind and that he was once compared by a film reviewer of Disney's 1997 Hercules to one of the evil demons (notably his ostrich neck, to which he shot back at Clive Anderson also mocking him, "At least, I've got a neck."), in fact he is no underling but Hades himself.
On a sidenote, a study done by Electoral Calculus said that UKIP would need to have at least 24% of the vote to get one Westminster MP (on 23%, they get nothing), though it rapidly improves thereafter and at 34% they could form a government.  They are never going to get 34% of the vote.  The research indicated broad but not deep support (which is why Edward Kennedy lost to sitting president Jimmy Carter when he challenged him in the Democratic primaries in 1980), a lack of strong candidates, a lack of well-known candidates (apart from their leader) and tactical voting unlikely to occur as they are to the right of the two main parties.  For all those anti-EU right-wingers who voted against change in the AV referendum... hahahahahahahahahahahaha!