Do anti-establishment voters know what they are doing?

Well thank you very much, America, for giving the world President Donald J. Trump.

Maybe the financial markets haven’t crashed yet, but there’s still time.

We can only hope that Trump isn’t as bad as some (most?) of us think and that he simply realised that appealing to the lowest common denominator – fear of foreigners – was a vote winner. Let us pray that this mantra isn’t successful in other countries.

For at the moment it appears there is an undercurrent of inward-looking, pull-up-the draw-bridge politics across Europe and leaders of right wing parties are licking their lips in anticipation.

Political commentators have said that the Brexit result and the Trumpit victory were shots across the bows of the establishment by disenfranchised people.

But remember that you can only do that in a democracy so people thinking about a radical protest vote need to consider the consequences of their actions. Very, very carefully.