I think Farage comes across as sincere right now but he is a politician. They all promise the world before they get into power but at the end of the day are all feathering their own nests in the long term. While I agreed with some of the pledges UKIP made concerning immigration, I couldn't vote for them because the more important policies would royally screw people like me if they got the vote. I agree with Jon that they got the protest vote in Europe mainly because they pushed immigration as their buzz word. All the other policies that would affect the lower middle classes with higher income tax, scrapping maternity/paternity pay, and scrapping the entitlement for annual holiday to name but a few, these may have been lost on the honest working individual IMO. I was driving through Merthyr Tydfil yesterday and UKIP posters are everywhere. I really don't know what people think they will offer them that may make them better off? Surely it is area's like this that will lose out? They may come down hard with certain aspects of immigration, but when then we have to live with the consequences of living with an even more tax hungry government who are dead against rewarding hard work. It all seems massively contradictory to me.