From what I understand the UKIP Party is akin to the Tea Party.
UKIP started as anti-EU but has become a party opposing the forces of all the major parties who along with the business and media elite, support the UK being in the EU.
At first UKIP took voters away from the Conservatives.
One of the worst aspects of EU membership is lack of control over the UK borders leading to a massive unstoppable influx of immigrants.
This has lowered wages and UKIP is now tapping into Left leaning Labour voters who know their party leaders are shafting them by staying in the EU that forces the UK to accept the flood of lower wage immmigrants.
UKIP got 30 percent of the vote in Rotheram in northern England in the EU Parliament elections, a Labour stronghold.
Many Labour voters are now shocked to learn that the sexual abuse of 14-hundred or more children was covered up by the Labour party officials at local and national level in Rotheram. Labour was afraid to prosecute because the perps were Pakistani immigrants. They were afraid of the racism charge being leveled.
UKIP is blasting away at this corruption and saying it demonstrates the failure of political correctness and multiculturalism.