Intellectually, I do agree with you. However, I consider their policy to be a poor one, a very poor one indeed. I say policy as they seemingly want 1 thing, to cut the uk off from its single largest economic partner.

I will sneer at those who voted ukip for local elections given that they have no local policy. Even reading their pamphlet it doesn't reveal any policies, a bunch of generic statements which reveal a view point buy nothing to state how they would counter it.

In terms of their success in local elections recently, if one looks back in history, one sees a very common theme, those defecting to another party maintain their seat..up until the next election where it tends to revert to the party.