A very good analysis of UKIP's five tribes from the Conservative Home website, and the recent phenomenal rise of the People's Army tribe. Really all of the tribes are part of one and the same thing apart from the politically correct Douglas Carswell type of tribe which the Establishment probably hopes will one day destroy the People's Army.
Louise Bours, former Labour councillor, is definitely one of our champions. She slipped up once when she politically correctly suggested that looking at minimum alcohol pricing might be worth doing, but we forgive her, we know she came from Labour and has not yet got rid of bad habits.
"Even Farage, whom they hero-worship, could get himself into trouble if he put himself at odds with them [the People's Army]." 
Absolutely, but if the establishment ever get to Farage and twist his arm behind his back and force him to say that he believes in man-made global warming, then it's all over. The People's Army will then switch from Farage to Louise Bours as long as she doesn't go all establishment politically correct.
I am surprised that Conservative Home actually understands it. They are usually so politically correct and modernising that they usually don't have a clue.
'People’s Army UKIP
Bedecked in camouflaged uniforms, the People’s Army, we are told, is on the march. It hates the “LibLabCon” and “the Establishment”, and it has a penchant for clambering on tanks.
This is perhaps Nigel Farage’s most potent line of attack: that the liberal, metropolitan elites who hate ordinary Brits and employ foreign nannies have stitched up the political system, rigged the economy in their favour, ripped off their parliamentary expenses and are laughing at us all behind our backs. The elite in Westminster are allied with the fat quangocrats, the multi-national corporations and the smug “comedians” on Radio 4 whose idea of a joke is to say “Daily Mail” a lot in relation to things of which they disapprove. If you don’t have time for that exposition, just look at a politician who drinks pints and smokes fags - what could be less Islington?
It is a powerful pitch both because it is, to some extent, true and because it speaks to the gut instincts of a lot of people – particularly the ‘left behind’, living outside the capital, lacking a university education and still suffering disproportionately from the financial crisis.
It has given UKIP their first nickname, their best headlines and – crucially – a vast surge in membership.
Proudly anti-intellectual, the People’s Army knows what it is against (banks, bankers, toffs, Brussels, immigration, human rights, political correctness, busybodies, jobsworths and Little Hitlers) but its weakness is that it is not necessarily for anything (except the abolition of the things it is against). Like Red UKIP, it began as an electoral and rhetorical tool – but now it makes up vast tracts of the party’s grassroots.
It’s worth remembering that the majority of the party’s footsoldiers have joined within the last 18 months, the People’s Army phase. They know little of the previous two decades of history, development and technical debate on the EU issue, and care rather less. Their experience and enthusiasm is for the party as it is presented now – red tints where once there was Thatcher and libertarianism; “Westminster” used as a dirty word rather than the home of democracy.
The trend is perhaps best embodied by Louise Bours MEP, the party’s health spokesman, whose approach to politics tends more towards shouting than contemplation. It is effective within its target market – though, as those at the top of the party know, that could prove to be a difficult tiger to ride over time. Even Farage, whom they hero-worship, could get himself into trouble if he put himself at odds with them."
www.conservativehome.com/highlights/2014/12/the-five-tribes-of-ukip.html