Also with @Hummingbird75.
I think that part of the problem is that people like Farage have, for far too long, been given far too big a platform in mainstream media in a bid to fill rolling news schedules. It's a shame that the newsmakers and audiences often don't realise that opposing views aren't necessarily equal and well-thought-though views... however the media dresses this up as 'balance'.
Also Westminster of whatever stripe just doesn't seem to understand the frustrations of many people in society. Which MPs live anywhere near run-down parades of shops, and are worried that their kids might be stabbed hanging around takeaways, and don't have a tidy street or a bit of green space to call their own? Have they seen some of the dirty, shitty, run-down, tired places where a lot of people live?
And how many MPs really understand that a lot of people perceive people from different ethnic backgrounds as 'untouchable' and 'favoured' in the eyes of the law and society more generally? The data may not bear that out but that is indeed what a lot of people perceive.
And regarding jobs... well there just aren't the hard-graft jobs-for-life for a lot of men (in particular) that there used to be. The camaraderie, the exhaustion, the social clubs/activities/support networks that went along with these have largely gone... (as have the industrial injuries and exclusion of the female workforce for get most part thankfully) to be replaced largely with service-sector jobs that have none of these attributes.
This may be sexist but what we have here is thousands of not-very-well educated, not-broadly-life-experienced men whose only bit of fun is often 'a spliff and a line'. Some go to guns if they can afford it. They wear branded clothing and have tattoos and unpleasant dogs as an outward display of wealth (that ironically they don't have). They often live in relatively insecure housing, have weak social networks, have complex/isolating family situations and live in the aforementioned shitty run-down areas.
Now, as compared in the past, they can find each other, and 'organise' more effectively than ever to an extent.
And this is what the government needs to get serious about. There are many millions of people who rightly or wrongly feel disenfranchised and badly-done-to. In a social media world they're more aware of this than ever. And in a world where the 'haves' (including MPs) are seen to live in nice houses, in leafy streets, with new cars, and with their kids having a choice of schools/activities/social opportunities, resentment builds.
Throw in any obvious 'target group', a catalytic event, and some warm weather, and it's a perfect storm.
Sadly for a lot of people, when they are upset about something, they make their point badly (e.g. violent disorder, destruction of local areas).
But MPs really do need to wake up to how a lot of people from all backgrounds feel. Go and drive around their streets at night. Walk their kids to school with them. Join with them in trying to make a healthy meal with whatever's available at that moment. Coach their kids on life opportunities and how to pursue them. Only THEN will they perhaps start to understand.