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UKIP has had far less success appealing to better-off voters, graduates and those under This becomes clear when we ask people to pinpoint the three biggest issues facing Britain.

They are far more concerned about immigration and the economy. It has also been given the tremendous boost since of cornering the market in protest votes generally. In past parliaments, the Liberal Democrats would triumph in by-elections and local elections because they were unsullied by the compromises and disappointments of government.

Now they are part of the coalition, the world of protest votes is closed to them. Could UKIP build on its recent success, and probable first place in the European Parliament elections, to break through at Westminster next year? This looks far less likely. Its evenly-distributed vote crucifies it under our first-past-the-post voting system for electing MPs. One of them collided with a spot of bother for floating the idea of mandatory armbands for foreigners to make it easier for police to identify them.

The Danish People's party: more ghastlies. Frank Vanhecke is there too. He's the former leader of Belgium's Vlaams Blok, the far-right party disbanded after a court said it broke anti-racist laws.

None of them are as obviously clubbable as Nige and he may want shot of them after the election. But they have been his Euro-mates for a while.

Domestically Ukip talks a good game. We only want respectable types, it says. But as Jeremy Hunt has pointed out , it does seem effortlessly able to attract — among the decent — a proportion of rum characters.

When they say racist, Islamophobic or plain offensive things, Farage wields the stick. But even he must wonder why they pitch up on his party's doorstep in the first place. Andre Lampitt, we know. Having starred in the latest Ukip TV ad, he was outed for dismissing Ed Miliband as "a Pole", asserting that Enoch Powell was right, Islam was Satanic and that Africans should be left to "kill themselves".

He has since been suspended. And then there was David Silvester , the councillor who attributed the winter floods to gay marriage. William Henwood popped up this week, calling for Lenny Henry, who seeks equality in the creative arts, to emigrate to "a black country". These were outriders, perhaps. But what about fellow MEP Gerard Batten , who called for British Muslims to sign a special code of conduct promising not to engage in violent jihad.

Farage said that wasn't party policy. And would any other party have welcomed to a senior post Neil Hamilton, the disgraced poster boy of the cash for questions scandal? His election role has reportedly been downgraded , but he's still deputy chair. At the weekend, he was on the BBC wearing his party hat and preaching the Faragian gospel. A strange choice to hoist on to the Ukip soapbox, but not the strangest. Is it worth mentioning that two of Ukip's intake ended up in jail for EU expenses fraud?

The party that isn't like the other parties seems to be like the other parties after all. Recently the party has taken the stick to those who might tarnish its journey into the electoral mainstream. Perhaps that is because with favourable polls comes harsher scrutiny. But hitherto, it seemed to have little problem with those who caused outrage or offence. Poor Godfrey Bloom had to biff Michael Crick of Channel 4 News with a party brochure to get himself disciplined, but prior to that, the nonstop misogyny and references to aid being sent to Bongo Bongo Land were viewed benignly.

In we encountered Paul Wiffen. He was London chairman of Ukip when he thought to hold forth on Community Care website, addressing those whose views were different. It is my entitlement, he says. I use EU money to hasten its demise. His take on the allowances, as revealed in the Guardian , is clear and may be instructive. Is this above board, he was asked. Everywhere contradictions. Having been elected and having pledged to topple the EU from within, one might think the Ukipians would be assiduous attenders, the better to disparage and critique it.