I think that Ukip's success here is just a flash in the pan - a protest at the incompetence of the Condems. I have no worries about their long-term viability. If their performance in local government is anything like that in the European Parliament, where they don't even bother to turn up half the time, people will soon see that they are just a bunch of incompetent buffoons, wasters and spoilers who, despite their predelection for its products, couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. It won't be long until, like their stable-mates the BNP, they crash and burn in total disarray.