The good news about the UKIP victory in last week’s Euro elections was that it made ‘spin’ by the other parties virtually impossible.

There was but a brief flurry of “ We may have come third, but our vote share held up very well” (Tories), “We beat the Tories and this is good news for our hopes of Government “ (Labour, despite one of the worst results for the main opposition in decades), and “Well, we may have been wiped out in both local and Euro elections; but never mind, at least we advanced our Euro-enthusiast arguments.” Er, yes, Nick.

The refreshing thing is that most of the parties seem ready to accept what a disaster it was for us, and what a very powerful message the electorate delivered. I promised to give you my interpretation straight. So here is what I think people were saying to us. It’s a bit about Europe. No-one has much of an idea what the European Parliament does – what it’s actually for. No-one has a clue who our MEPs are, at least partly because of the absurd PR voting system.

It’s all a mystery shrouded in an enigma, which is why only a third of us voted at all, most of them voting to get rid of the whole thing. The EU should be a trading mechanism amongst independent nation states. And that is ALL.

So I want David Cameron to go into battle with the EU. I want a fundamental renegotiation of the whole architecture and structure of the EU. I want a better deal for Britain. If he can’t deliver that, then I will be actively campaigning to ‘leave’ in the 2017 referendum.

It was about immigration – especially the right to move around the EU. Well I support that: 5.6 million Brits live and work abroad, mainly in other EU counties. I welcome people from overseas here when they come here to work; and large parts of our economy would seize up without them. But they must not replace British workers; and they must most certainly not be a drain on our welfare state.

But the UKIP vote was about something wider than that. The British public have had enough of wet liberalism; they can’t stand the ‘moderniser’ politically correct tendency; they don’t like some of the things we have had to do in coalition; and regret some of the things that we have not been able to do. Some of those who voted UKIP actually want a proper Conservative government.

They want to see us get a grip on the EU; they want to end foreigners scrounging our benefits system; they want decisions to be taken not in Brussels but instead clear, powerful decision-making in Westminster.