"What I love about tonight is the possibility that people will get elected who didn't want to be" 

He's not, he's a good performer and knows how to utilize basic psychology to gain and radicalize a following

@@sempressfi and by doing that he's been able to exert enormous influence on the policy direction of the conservative party, and thus British politics. The power to influence is the second most valuable power that a politician can have (only second to the power to change) and he has had more influence than almost any other politician this century; that he's managed this whilst exclusively operating from outside the mainstream political parties is, to me, an incredible achievement - especially in a FPTP system. Is the accumulation and exertion of power not what the art of politics is all about? I think there have been few that've rivalled Farage as a politician in recent times, and most of them come from Scotland.