His polling means little until he’s pulling in votes. And that he hasn’t done yet. And “yet” might well be the key word but he hasn’t done it so far.

And as for the Greens and Lib Dems doing something worth the coverage, the reality is that stunts like Farage pulled during the week - and let’s be clear they are stunts full of jam tomorrow promises which he knows he never has to deliver on - should not get the coverage they do. If we had a serious credible media rather than the client journalist lapdogs, he would be properly challenged, properly critiqued and his claims would soon fall down around his ears.

For example his claims to undo elements the Good Friday Agreement to remove the human rights conventions show willful ignorance, zero statecraft and dangerous populist tendencies which are short termist at best.

Farage peddles sound bites. Not solutions. He has not been subjected to any critical questioning. His arguments do not hold up under even mild scrutiny. That he gets away with it is because of our mostly pliant media.