The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.