Finally, Ukip has simply not had a fair election. Indeed, the scale of opposition to it is so vast that its supporters could be forgiven for seeing a conspiracy. Both Tories and Labour have tried to win back its voters, via a mix of stealing its best ideas and occasionally calling them racist for having had said ideas in the first place. That’s okay: all’s fair in love and politics. But what isn’t fair is that public television has been dominated by specials either parodying or exposing Ukip’s alleged bigotry. It's not fair, either, that Ukip correctly predicted that huge numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians would migrate to the UK – and yet it was mocked for its accurate prophesy and ignored when it tried to claim credit for it. Unfair, also, that the IFS hasn't bothered to review Ukip's spending plans. And it's surely not right that disproportionate attention has been paid to morons in Ukip’s ranks while similar Tory or Labour offenders are so often overlooked. Much of the mainstream media has a narrative about Ukip that it has stuck to and retold so often that it has started to sound like gospel truth. Don’t get me wrong: Ukip has often confirmed the worst suspicions with the behaviour of individual members. But at a time of MiliFandom, the lack of comparable generosity towards Ukip is striking.