Nigel Farage has been celebrating Ukip's European election success [PA]I am very proud of everyone who worked so hard for UKIP and held their nerve under fire.
There were dark mutterings that this was not the way to handle expectations management and that if Ukip greatly increased its share of the vote and its number of MEPs and yet was pipped to the winning post it would be written up as a failure.
Well, I always think that if you don’t set yourself ambitious goals in life you will never find out what you can really achieve.
And what do you know, we did what no other party has done for more than a century – we came above both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party in a nationwide set of elections as well as pulverising Nick Clegg and his poor Lib Dems (by the way thanks again for those TV debates, Nick and do keep your chin up in tough times, I would hate to see you go).
We faced a mighty onslaught from these establishment parties and their media allies and we came through it.
I am very proud of everyone who worked so hard for Ukip and held their nerve under fire.
All over Europe, other Eurosceptic parties also had a big leap forward (though none so stunning as ours).
But you wouldn’t have known it in Brussels this week.
The big cheeses of the European political elite chose to react as if it was business as usual.
And because there is still a federalist majority in the European Parliament, it is even possible that they will try and accelerate the drive towards political union because they can see the writing on the wall and know they are running out of time.
David Cameron paid a flying visit, during which he achieved nothing but was fleeced for another £500million of UK taxpayers’ money by the European Commission.
I have challenged Mr Cameron to live up to his new Eurosceptic rhetoric by keeping Britain out of the European Arrest Warrant and a host of other home affairs and justice measures that are being advanced by the power-grabbers in Brussels.
But with a track record like Dave’s it is usually best to expect the worst.
Roger Helmer is the Ukip candidate for Newark [GETTY]Yes Theresa, we must. But how do you propose to actually do that?
If you want to play a senior role in the Better Off Out movement then please say so.
Otherwise we will be forgiven for thinking this is just more hot air. Because everyone knows you cannot control the volume of migration from the EU while you are a member of the EU.
The week ahead sees the Newark by-election take place and our candidate Roger Helmer is playing a blinder. The polls show that only Ukip can beat the Tories in Newark and that we are closing fast.
We are coming from an awful long way back but were we to take the seat it would probably count as the most spectacular Ukip electoral achievement of all.
Between now and polling day volunteers from our People’s Army will be pouring into Newark to help the campaign.
I shall be going myself to make sure we build even more momentum, but security considerations mean I am not able to name the day in advance.
The Tory establishment has saturated Newark for several weeks now, although given the limited interpersonal skills of some of its leading lights I am not sure that has always been to the advantage of the Conservative candidate.
We are still the underdogs in Newark, but that is our preferred status.
I must say I found being the bookies favourite to win the European elections for the entire last month of the campaign rather a bind.
We brought it home in the end because the British people were with us and enough of you were impervious to or saw through the smear campaigns run against us.
Thank you for doing something extraordinary. Thank you for helping us to make history.
Now the people of Newark have the chance to write another chapter.
The pace never slackens but we in Ukip are loving every minute of our people’s uprising.
Watch out Ed, watch out Dave – we are only getting started.
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