If Nigel Farage had died in that plane crash this genuinely wouldn't be happening. They have no beacon to organise around without Farage. There is nobody else with his ability to play the game.
You can all talk about great man theory this and that not being true sure but this shitbag has been forged through 45 years of experience as a successful crypto fascist and if he were gone there simply is no replacement but getting someone who has gone through that many years of experience as a crypto fascist again.
I am convinced that this movement would collapse without him. He is and always has been the lynchpin of the far right's access and influence in the mainstream.