Farage is a VE hero and achieved the greatest political triumph of my lifetime in forcing the referendum on EU membership.
The betrayal of the result is another matter.
As for UKIP and its current leader Farage has gone mainstream stupid. Batten is right and Farage, like all politicians and many right thinking people such as julia Hartley-Brewer, is wrong about Islam. Normal people, understandably, but totally uninformed think Islam is a religion in the same sense as we understand religion: be nice to people, don't steal, rob, murder or rape. Vicar of Dibley, cuddly imam - no difference. But Islam is not a religion in our sense, it's firstly a political movement with the agenda of all political movements - the attainment of power. And under certain circumstances it will sanction many of the things which we excoriate, sexual slavery being one of the most egregious example .
Unfortunately the Robinson connection tarnishes Batten. And therefore UKIP.
As it happens Robinson and Batten are right about Islam and Farage and just about everybody else is wrong. And there's obviously nothing which will convince most people otherwise.