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One of their elected members of the European Parliament, Godfrey Bloom, took the particulars of this branding quite literally. Mr Sked, it must be noted, left the party he had founded. Ukip now has nine out of 73 members in the European Parliament, and all of them are dedicated to taking the UK out of it. He is seen as a non-politician politician, photographed unself-consciously with a pint of beer in his hand and a broad smile.Since the 2010 election another distinct anti-coalition party has entered the fray and has been making some electoral headway. His audience took it as he meant it and laughed. “We’ve got a roomful of sluts then,” said Mr Bloom.

Mr Bloom was precipitately expelled as Ukip’s European man and has left one section of the nation wondering if it wants to vote for or join a party which speaks its mind in this particular way and another, tinier section determined to vote for people like Mr Bloom rather than Ed Miliband, David Cameron or anyone who is careful about how they address women, immigrants and, indeed, reality. That would depend upon Ukip being able to attract some support from people who are for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU but not necessarily for the other wishful policies that the party espouses, such as reducing all taxes, lifting the ban on smoking in public, scrapping welfare and erecting a statue of Adolf Hitler in Hyde Park — please note I made that last one up. Let me present the psephological maths: The 2010 election resulted in a hung Parliament with neither Labour nor Conservative having a clear majority and the Liberal-Democrats led by Nick Clegg having 50 seats and holding the balance of power. The United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) was founded in 1993 by Alan Sked, a London School of Economics lecturer who gathered a following on the single policy of unconditionally and precipitately quitting the European Union. The remark was widely reported and decent opinion from all colours of the political spectrum reacted with shock and horror. The image that they have sought to project is that they are non-politician politicians and can therefore speak their minds and truly represent the common man. Gay doesn’t mean merry, “to google” is a respectable verb and tweet has passed from being comic birdsong to being idiots’ activity. Addressing a meeting of Ukip members in the course of their annual conference, he began to talk about housework Recycled Fabrics suppliers and asked the women in the audience how many of them bothered to “clean behind the fridge”.Slut as in slattern“Isn’t it strange Isn’t it rich That Panini The Grammarian of SanskritIs now an Italian sandwich ”From Hai Doonya! by BachchooThe meanings of words slide. In the local elections of 2013, Ukip won some startling victories, taking their support from dissident Tories and, the pollsters calculated, from the working class supporters of Labour who respond to Ukip’s anti-EU and ban-all-immigration policies.

Very few members, or perhaps none responded. Their left-wing voters have gone over to Labour or to resentful abstention of “plague-on-all-three-houses” nature. Until last week, this trend seemed to add up, in the boasts of Mr Farage and the fears of some Tories to a haemorrhage of Tory right-wing support to Ukip, putting the next general election into the pocket of the Labour Party. It has three members in the House of Lords and in the 2013 local elections it surprised the nation by polling more votes than the Lib-Dems, pushing them into fourth place. If the Labour Party gets even 35 per cent of the popular vote they will have a marginal majority in the House of Commons. Mr Clegg and the leadership of Lib-Dems have attempted throughout their term in coalition to persuade the country and their members that they are the rubber tyres on the Tory metal wheels — without them the ride would be rougher. Nevertheless, it was the biggest news to come out of poor Ukip’s conference, displacing any policy announcements that Mr Farage may have come up with and eclipsing the names of any other worthies of the party who, as far as the British public are concerned, may all be called Mr or Ms Anony Mouse. With a few percentage points over or under this figure they may have to consider a coalition with the Liberal-Democrats who will, because they are not Ukip or the other parties, retain some support in the country and seats in the House. Single syllables, within the space of months, acquire new values. Ukip’s present leader, Nigel Farage, denies that the party is covertly racist. None of them it seemed bothered to clean behind the fridge.Now a word whose meaning in the UK may or may not have shifted into dodgy territory — depending on whether you are an Islingtonian protector of public sentiment or a suburban golf-club bore — may impact the British general election result two years hence.

The horse trading resulted in the present Tory and Lib-Dem coalition. The Ukip only gained attention and political momentum after 2010 when this policy of leaving the EU began to appeal to a majority of its members as a convenient hijab for xenophobia, anti-immigration and outright racism..Nevertheless, going along with the Tories has, according to several opinion polls, lost the Lib-Dems more than half their support in the country. Mr Clegg and the governing clique of his party entered this arrangement with a “coalition agreement” which contended that the most important policy to follow was a reduction of the national debt which the previous Labour government of Gordon Brown had run up. Judging from the context, Mr Bloom meant the word “slut” in the sense of “slattern” and not with the connotation of sexual promiscuity or licentiousness that the word has acquired. That was the calculation with which Ukip went into its annual conference in London last week, confident and even bragging that they may replace the Lib-Dems as the third party and hold the balance of power in the next Parliament