Talking of headaches for Dave, last night’s ICM/Guardian poll has UKIP on 18%, their highest ever rating and double their ICM rating for a month ago. Labour, the Tories and the LibDems all lost four points each, with Labour falling below Ed’s fabled 35% target. UKIP are up nine points. What was that about a referendum?

Record highs in the polls, surpassing expectations in the local elections and never seeing your face off the TV are all well and good, but you haven’t truly made it until you star in a Portuguese rock band’s music video. Apparently Joe x Ppl’s latest offering was inspired by the idea that politicians think the public are less than individuals. All money made from downloads goes to Portuguese charities helping those who have suffered from recent EU-related events…

Guido revealed the guest list at the unlikeliest dinner party of the year in yesterday’s Sun column. At a soiree hosted by Russian billionaire’s son Evgeny Lebedev, Nigel Farage broke bread with celebrity luvvies such as Goldsmith heiress Jemima Khan, Labour’s former prince of darkness Peter Mandelson plus TV personalities Stephen Fry and Janet Street-Porter. “Bonkers” was Nigel’s verdict. Well he wouldn’t want to damage his anti-establishment credentials, would he…

Celebrity endorsement of the day: Des Lynam has come out for UKIP. Casting his vote for Team Farage in Sussex obviously wasn’t enough for Des, who has of course rewritten the lyrics of Send in the Clowns to mark the occasion:

We used to be rich
Now we are not
But here at last there’s a chance
To stop the all rot
Send in the Clowns.

Isn’t it bliss
Don’t you approve
They just kept tearing around
But they wouldn’t move
We need the clowns
Send in the clowns.

They’d never stopped
Opening our doors
 Now you are learning
The vote that we wanted was yours
We’ll make our entrance again
With unusual flair
Sure of our lines
Well be right there.

We’ve had the farce
Their fault I fear
We know that you want what we want
No need to fear
They call us the clowns.

So send in the clowns
And give us a cheer.

What a surprise
Who could have thought
You’d come to feel about things
We felt you ought
Only now will they see
You’ve drifted our way
No surprise now
It’s no cliché

Isn’t it strange
Now they have fear
They’ve lost their timing this late
In their careers
And where are the clowns
Quick, send in the clowns.

Don’t bother were here.

To be sung at UKIP conference. Obviously…

UKIP at their highest ever poll rating for YouGov, Tories at their lowest this parliament. 25% of Tory 2010 voters are now backing UKIP. It isn’t as simple as 27+17 beats 38, but food for thought nonetheless…

Last week they were clowns, fruitcakes and racists, now here’s Dave’s new position:

“It’s no good insulting a political party that people have chosen to vote for. It’s right that we show respect for people who supported them. We are going to work hard to win them back.”

What a difference an election makes…

Taxi for the other three leaders…

Our colleagues over at The Sun put 18-year-old politics student Bradley Monk, standing for UKIP to get on the Hampshire County Council seat Winchester Eastgate tomorrow, on page 2 after he put pictures of himself wearing a creepy Jimmy Savile mask on his Facebook page. Further examination of his Facebook reveals him dressed in a bikini having a drunken snog with Eric Cunha, another UKIP activist. Guido thinks we can safely say this is one UKIP candidate who is neither racist or homophobic…

It takes something pretty special to unite the Tories and the Guardian, and then have UKIP and the New Statesman team up against them. UKIP candidate Dick Delingpole’s photoshop of himself with Hitler and subsequent Telegraph blog “confessing” to a non-existent Nazi past were so obviously a joke surely no one could fall for it. Step forward Simon Geraghty, Delingpole’s Tory opponent in Worcester, to bore us all with a cringeworthy sense of humour bypass:

“I find it absolutely sickening and abhorrent. I think the vast majority of British people will find this shocking – it’s not funny at all, it’s dreadful and I can’t believe he’s done it.”

The Guardian‘s Nick Watt even managed to bring himself to write the non-story up in full high-minded glory, apparently using the headline “Ukip in fresh Nazi row after candidate Photoshops Hitler image” without irony. You knew the whole thing had reached farcical proportions when the Staggers came out in defence of Delingpole this afternoon. CCHQ, a Tory candidate and the Guardian versus UKIP, the Staggers and a Delingpole – roll on Friday.

If you took Guido’s advice yesterday morning you could have got evens on UKIP getting  50 seats. Guido got a bit greedy after lunch:

Just been round various bookies in the West End putting £50 bets on UKIP to do well so as not to move the market.—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) April 30, 2013

After last night’s poll those odds are now 10/1 on…