So be it. Would rather vote for something and someone that shares my values than a phoney conservative party just to keep out Labour.
This is, at the least, a very London/southern centric view of things. The fact is that in the northern and midland counties UKIP members are more likely to be disaffected Labourites or even liberals. In large stretches of the country UKIP is now effectively the main opposition to the ruling Labour councils, and certainly the only party that has any chance of kicking them out of office. Most of the socialist councillors are lazy and arrogant. They think they have some god given right to office in these places on the basis that they are "working-class", and therefore they have done nothing for them for years. They are going, I believe, to get a very big surprise over the next few election cycles in the UK.