I used to write quite a lot about the state of the Labour Party. There was plenty to write about and it was at least entertaining. That dropped off for me under Tory party’s transformation into a social democratic green party has made it as much of a threat as Labour. I need not worry about the dangers of letting Labour in when the actual difference is minimal. This is partly what prompted my association with Ukip.

There was a time when it was worth watching Labour to see how it would shape up under new management not least least because the country still needs an opposition party. To Starmer’s credit he as done what he can with the limited authority he has to decorbynise Labour, but he’s still left with the rump of momentum for a membership and is lumbered with a pack of deadbeats and crooks for MPs. A man twice his ability could not make Labour electable. The only thing that could project Labour into power is a total collapse of support for Boris Johnson.

But then is Labour any better off for decorbynising? It would appear not. The fabian progressives have reasserted their dominance, but that still makes it the party of middle class concerns, wedded to remoanerism, gender wokery, climate dogma and a propensity to treat the working class like pets. I have no love of Corbyn, but Starmer somehow managed to position the party even further out of touch.

Today the Labour Party tweets “The Tories have had 12 years to end the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels. They have failed. Labour would turbocharge the shift to cheap, clean, home-grown renewables and nuclear energy and secure our future”. The graphic says they will increase UK renewable and nuclear energy production, insulate 19m homes, double onshore wind energy capacity, increase offshore wind production, triple solar power, and cut imports and energy bills”.

In other words, an identical policy to the Tories. The establishment is closing ranks on Net Zero. I can and have written at length as to why all of this is bunkum (and will again). Fossil fuels are going to be with us for a long time to come and the transition to “clean energy” is not going to happen in my lifetime – though they’ll do an inordinate amount of damage attempting to do so.

But I’m left to wonder, why on earth do they think this is what people want? I wouldn’t say I belong in the financially vulnerable bracket by any means, but even I’m wondering if I can afford to have the heating on next winter. I’m already tightening the belt when out food shopping, and limiting car journeys (not seeing family and friends). But for those with young kids and commutes, this may not be an option. The public is not as preoccupied with carbon emissions as the Labour party is. Most are wondering if they can maintain their basic standard of living.

Neither the Tory party or Labour realises that we are amidst an energy emergency. They are both committed to the Net Zero ideology first and foremost – even if voters have to go cold and hungry. If there is a difference between the tory and Labour approach it is that Labour will make available more public funds to compensate the poorest for disastrous policies, but won’t actually change those policies thereby digging an even bigger hole in public finances.

A week or so ago, The Daily Express was shrieking about a secret Labour plot to re-join the EU, and I was going to write about it, but thought better of it – not least because they’ll publish pretty much the same story at least once a month. But I take the view that Brexit has already been defeated. On paper we have left the EU, but the Tory party is in lockstep with the EU on climate energy and foreign policy as though we never left, and it’s beginning to look like the suspension of freedom of movement is only temporary. The borders are still wide open and I do not anticipate Patel’s borders bill making the slightest difference.

It will, at best, remove some of the more egregious abusers, but unless we’re willing to withdraw from the refugee Convention, and the human rights apparatus that goes with it, will can expect the legislation to be gradually undermined through the courts in its first year. Back to square one – and all under the Tories. Brexit has served its purpose for the Tory party, but now it’s ancient history. Labour could take steps to re-attach us to the EU, which would be a step backwards for sure, but under the Tories, Brexit has gone as far as it will ever go.

And therein lies the essential problem with entrusting the delivery of Brexit to a party than never truly desired it, and has no idea what to do with it. When it comes down to it, the Tory party is just as bereft of reform ideas as Labour, and are equally out of touch. We are to be governed by slogans forevermore – be it “levelling up” or building back better. There has been no serious attempt to diagnose what ails Britain, and all we get from Johnson is more of the same generic redistributive policies under the guise of saving the planet (while China builds a new coal station every other week).

If anything, Brexit is something of a political setback for the “revolt on the right”. Our once influential movement is now broken into pieces and unable to bring to bear any real influence, and the Reform Party under Tice is playing establishment games by establishment rules. The absence of a post-Brexit agenda has allowed the Tories to bury it.

Ultimately nothing is going to get better until we give the establishment parties their marching orders. The corrupt and obsolete Wesminster model is not democracy, does not represent us, and is not working in the national interest. It is actively working against us.

I’m not even convinced that change can any longer be secured by the vote alone. We tried that but the establishment has rendered our votes worthless. The system is rigged for the favour of the incumbent parties, and following Brexit, they will gradually remove the online tools available for us to organise. We are headed towards a major constitutional crisis because the establishment is acting in open defiance of the people. We’re going to see massive disengagement from politics, while respect for the authority and legitimacy of the state collapses, leading to widespread civil disorder – especially when ordinary people are thinking twice about heating their homes and going short of food.

I don’t know for sure how this is going to play out, but the narrow obsessions of our self-indulgent political class are set to leave Britain in ruins. We couldn’t afford them at the best of times, but now we have to consider them as hostiles – and more of a danger to us than any external aggressor. All of us now face a bleaker, poorer future thanks to the virtue signalling stupidity of our political class, and they won’t go without a fight. But that fight is coming. In these times of uncertainty, it’s the only thing I’m certain of. That’s why it’s time to come back to Ukip.