We in the UK have a significant by-election looming later in November, in Medway - the renegade conservative Mark Reckless left the conservative party to join UKIP so triggering a by-election, and there is great concern that he may be re-elected as a UKIP MP.

For the benefit of the colonies, UKIP is a bit like the conservatives but further right and even less intelligent and more xenophobic. It is rabidly opposed to the European Union and immigrants. Its senior members want to accelerate the privatisation of the NHS, it supports flat taxation, and opposes the welfare state in all its forms. Its leader pretends to challenge the establishment, but is a public schoolboy (that's "privately educated") and a financier and banker.

In short UKIP has the brains of Sarah Palin without the looks.

He is and UKIP are backed by "Britain First" - paramilitary idiots, total grunts, knuckledraggers who wear an almost military uniform, drive armoured vehicles, and bully old and female Muslims on their own, but run a mile if offered real opposition.