His is the party of the “none of the above” as he derides his opponents as part of a set-up he despises and this total disdain for politics both sides of the channel has rocketed him to prominence.
Farage is the ultimate outsider and just look at what it has earned his party.
On June 7 Ukip won the European Parliament elections which was a seismic shock in Westminster as it was the first time in a century a national election had not been won by the Conservatives or Labour.
He also recruited two MPs who both won by-elections in the face of heavy bombardment.
Significantly there was also an election he did not quite win, in Heywood and Middleton in Lancashire, which Labour held but by a wafer-thin majority of 600 votes.
This proved Farage and his outriders could rightly claim they had tanks parked on Labour’s lawns.
What has undoubtedly helped the Ukippers is how the opinion polls have changed.
It was as recently as this summer that immigration outranked the economy consistently as the number one concern of the electorate.
A gain this played to the outsider appeal of Farage, as Ed Miliband was flat-footed in his response and is permanently scarred by his party’s appalling record on the issue.
David Cameron made a pledge to limit immigration to a number that all and sundry could see was impossible to attain and Nick Clegg’s passionate love affair for all things European, including the insane open doors policy, means he cannot appear to do much more than posture.
As the currency of the main leaders has been devalued week in, week out, so the fortunes of all the mavericks have increased.
