It wasn’t so long ago that we would laugh at the utterances and actions of many of Nigel Farage’s disciples. Who can forget UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom saying we shouldn’t send aid to “Bongo Bongo Land” or UKIP councillor David Silvester saying Britain’s floods were down to God taking revenge on us legalising gay marriage. David Cameron, for once spot-on, dismissed UKIP as a shower of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists,” which prompted Farage to leap on to a high horse and say: “Fruit cakes and