Yet it has already done enough to seriously disrupt all three of its mainstream rivals, the Conservatives, the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, vindicating his longstanding promise to stir up British politics.Most revealingly for the party's long-term prospects, UKIP's triumph in local elections is proof of its growing knack for campaigning on-the-ground and on domestic political issues.
It was a firm that was never considered truly white-shoe, an outsider that defied its mainstream rivals.
If its mainstream rivals are wise, its insurgency will also inspire a more profound democratic overhaul.In this section Winding down Pressed suits Metroland spreads out Nothing sticks Great Scots!
Perhaps he consoled himself with the thought that a Yes vote would be good for UKIP, as a shattering blow to its mainstream rivals and a spur to the English nationalist cause of which he is the nearest thing to a leader.
While Waitrose has set out to make itself radically different from discounters, installing service counters and an array of ways to taste-test or dine in stores, its mainstream rivals will have a laser-like focus on ways to save cash.
And on Wednesday, Hamas is expected to sign a preliminary reconciliation deal in Cairo with its secularist, mainstream rival Fatah, which is now based in the West Bank.
At the centre of the scrap between Daily Ireland and its more mainstream rival will be a battle for the hearts and minds of a nationalist community in flux.
But a succession of setbacks and the possibility of another mainstream rival joining the race has, to some degree, checked the presumptive-ness of the presumptive candidate.
Polls continue to suggest, however, that the higher turnout in a nationwide election would see Ms Le Pen comfortably defeated by any mainstream rival in the two-candidate, second-round run-off for the Élysée Palace.
Soon after the bombing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades militia in Gaza, which is loosely affiliated with Fatah, the mainstream rival of Hamas, claimed responsibility for the attack in conjunction with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a third, unknown group.
