Most of all UKIP's share of the vote proves that there are a large number of people who dislike the way our sovereinty has been sold for a stake in globalisation

Let's not get carried away. Fewer than one in ten eligible voters turned out for Ukip, in an election with a very low turnout held mostly in the Shire Counties. We've seen the Liberals/LibDems do this mid-term on countless occasions (and, unlike Ukip, they often managed to win an outrageous seat or two), but they have yet to take the nation by storm (they may be "in power" now, but their performance in the last election was worse than in the one before, lest we forget). Farage has a long way to go. His cheeky-chappie beer (and lots of it) 'n' fags reputation is going to come under some very heavy scrutiny, and I'm confident that he will once more emerge as the racist, xenophobic, fruitcake, plane-crash clown he always was.