I can't recall the person who said it, but the quote was: 'When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing. They believe in everything.'
I can't remember a time when so many people were so fucking gullible. There's no excuse. You don't even have to go to the library and read books. There are vast reams of data on the internet you can access without getting off your arse.
But the average person seems no better educated than a credulous medieval peasant. They believe every rumour, however bizarre. The likes of Yaxley-Lennon and Farage are the equivalent of the old friars and hedge priests who went around telling lies about the King and his advisers, putting people in fear they were all about to be massacred, or reduced to slavery, or whatever shit was current.