I don't know if it's necessarily the case that they're going to rule us one day, but it's not that difficult to imagine - and I'd say looking at his operation Farage is imagining exactly this - a general election result that sees the Brexit party with 10 or so MPs holding the balance of power in a hung parliament. And as Salvini has shown in Italy, being a junior partner in a coalition doesn't have to mean oblivion next time they go to the polls - it can be the ideal place to build support.