sucking up to Australian/American billionaire Rupert Murdoch

You do realise News International tried to bankrupt Farage. Right? It was Michael Gove of all people who was still political editor of The Times that persuaded them to step down and agree to pay damages out of court,

They stood down because Farage was willing to remortgage his family's home to take on the Murdoch legal team.

as they hate on poor immigrants doing necessary low-skilled jobs

Nope. No hate for the immigrants. Hate for the levels of immigration, and hate for the politicians bringing them in when we have youth unemployment.

bashing the EU while riding the gravy-train as much as any other party;

They get paid the same as any other MEP. They voted against increasing MEP expenses (which admittedly so did Labour and the Conservatives, but not the Greens, Lib Dems, or BNP when they had them).

claiming to be outside the establishment despite being backed by former Tory millionaires;

And? Money doesn't make you bad, or even part of the establishment.

What makes them anti-establishment is that they literally want to leave an entire establishment that is the EU parliament, and then to begin slashing at Whitehall, promoting localism and electoral reform to make representatives more accountable.

presenting themselves as ordinary blokes when their leader is an ex-public schoolboy and a former commodity broker from the City.

And? Why does it matter where Mrs Farage sent little Nigel for his schooling. And lots of people from all sorts of backgrounds work in financials.

Plus, a lot of their candidates seem to be loudly, obviously bonkers. Or racist. Or both.

No more than other parties, but find a racist candidate in UKIP and they'll boot him out. No other party can say as much. They circle their wagons about them and brush over it.

Multiculturalism is bad (in some unspecified way - most respondents seem unwilling to cite details or facts);

Page 61 of the manifesto.

Australian lecturer Mike Poulsen went a little further when addressing the Royal Geographical Society. The reports went on to say, "[C]ommunities living in several UK cities face social isolation as severe as that experienced in the black ghettoes of divided American cities like Miami and Chicago, research has found." And that was only using census data up to 2001. We've had an explosion of immigration and lack of integration since then. The very policy of multiculturalism argues you don't have to integrate, and so we effectively have enclaves of communities which don't interact with each other, or concentrated migration to certain parts of the country pushing local government resources and social services to breaking point.

The alternative, as Farage has argued in the media, is inter-culturalism.

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The answer to your question of why the support, is the manifesto. Read it. It is by far the most thorough of all of them, and it is fully costed.

It is the only party to have a section dedicated to Small Business.

It is the only party that has a means to significantly reduce both food shopping and energy bills whilst keeping the lights on and the factories running. To tackle the cost of living head on. The only party to do this, and the only party that can do it because it requires leaving the EU.

The only party to actually have a UK agricultural policy that isn't over a barrel with the CAP, or an alternative fishing policy which isn't anchored to the CFP.

It is the only party to have a costed ten year plan to build a million new homes on brownfield land without going into greenbelt AND to be praised by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

When blind tested with the public UKIP policy came out top for healthcare and second on education.

UKIP's chair of the healthcare policy committee worked for over two decades as an NHS radiologist before going on to consult for the NHS on healthcare management. The head of the education policy committee is a former university lecturer. They put people with hands on knowledge who care about their professions to manage the policy committees, because then it means they care about the policy. This trend continues.

The disability spokesperson is a lawyer who is now confined to a wheelchair, so when she says let's scrap ATOS, make it easier and quicker to go through assessment, and put NHS GPs on the side of their patients and disability claimants she knows something about the errors of the current system. The Defence spokesperson was in the marines and the policy itself written by somebody who had studied the economics of Western militaries at the Royal Military College Shrivenham. The agricultural spokesperson and author of agricultural policy? Yep, a professional farmer, former waterways manager, and a former farmer's union rep.

All that aside, what is mentioned on page 57 of the manifesto is all the justification required to vote for this party. The section on 'Political Reform'. Everything else follows on from that. That alone, if enacted are the tools and building blocks to bring about real future changes and to make elected representatives answerable to their electorate again. It would change the face of politics.

That and if it weren't for UKIP applying pressure we almost certainly wouldn't have the 2011 European Union Act referendum lock, and we wouldn't be discussing future referendums. A vote for UKIP keeps the pressure on both that and electoral reform.