If you go through a lot of my older posts you’ll find I’ve been a visceral critic of Ukip over the last ten years. Particularly Nigel Farage. For a time Ukip had considerable electoral power. You don’t need seats to have it. You don’t need to win to influence elections. But that power was squandered. There should have been a plan, not just for Brexit but beyond to ensure the objectives of the insurgent right were met.

Instead, Farage presided over a shambolic party with embarrassing policies, and no intellectual foundation. Every move was a short term reactive move, walking into every ambush, sacrificing steady growth for for unsustainable surges, failing to impose any kind of message discipline. They’d drifted so far off the point that when it came to making the case for Brexit, the cupboard was bare and were left repeating the mantras of the ERG and the Tory free trade cultists. They forgot that it was political, not economic.

Foolishly, the right were taken in by Boris Johnson, and the Johnny come latelys hailed him as the man of the hour. But anyone who knew the man knew that he was no man of principle, nor especially was he a committed Brexiteer. He was and is an opportunist and a chancer with no loyalty to anything but his career. Having allowed Vote Leave Ltd to steal the initiative in 2015, allowing the Tories to own Brexit, Farage facilitated the end of his own power and handed it to the Tories.

The consequences of those failures should now be obvious. We may have left the EU but immigration is still out of control, we are no closer to democratic reform, and the Tories have dropped Brexit. For all the difference it makes, we may as well not have left. We were supposed to keep the trade and ditch the political agendas, but instead Boris Johnson has done vice versa. We’re still getting the full brunt of climate austerity and the Tories are no more likely to deliver on immigration than the Labour party.

With that, the right once again finds itself back at the beginning, with the Tory party doing everything possible to alienate the very people who gave them their majority. Anyone who recognises the necessity to control immigration and does not believe in the hyperbole of the climate zealots finds themselves politically homeless. We have to rebuild and we cannot make the same mistake of ever trusting the Tories again.

When it comes to it, the Tories are tinkering around the edges on immigration, too cowed by the left wing establishment to do what is necessary. Priti Patel seeks headlines by deporting a handful of Jamaican criminals, and she can’t even manage that. What we actually need to see is a thousand deportations every single week. There are over a million illegal immigrants in the UK who have no business being here.

With the Tories afraid of bad press and hyperventilation from the left leaning metropolitan set, they will never tackle the legal obstacles to immigration reform and they will let activist lawyers call the shots. We will see no reform of human rights rules and we will remain apart of the dysfunctional global conventions on migration. Nor will they tackle the pernicious politically correct culture of the police and other arms of government that favours the rights of foreign criminals over taxpaying citizens. Thus, we do need a right wing alternative.

As with before the referendum, though there are marginal difference between Labour and Conservatives, they still agree that we must pile on more financial misery on the poorest in the name of saving the planet, despite China and India, the world’s biggest polluters not lifting a finger. This isn’t about the climate. This is about imposing an agenda of social control over the people, making us second class citizens in our own country with no influence on who comes in and how our money is spent. They are dismantling democracy and the climate is their excuse.

Though the Tories pay lip service to tackling immigration, we know their words are worthless. For as long as the office of the Prime Minister gets its validation from its international technocrat peers rather than from voters, they will only pretend to care about these issues and only at election time.

As to the so-called war on woke, this is little more than a decoy. The Tories are not meaningfully grasping the issue. We are still putting male rapists in women’s prisons. Stonewall may have jumped the shark, but LGBT ideology is still entrenched in government, and nobody is asking how Stonewall got so deeply embedded to begin with. Serious questions have to be asked as to how our academic establishment has been captured entirely by the woke left, leading to a collapse in the credibility of UK universities and their output. But that’s another fight the Tories will shrink from they just don’t want to rock the boat. They will do only the bare minimum to ensure viewers of the infotainment channel GB News are satisfied. They are easily pleased.

Then there is the matter of the BBC. The Tories came to power with a mandate for major BBC reform but as with everything else, that agenda has been quietly dropped and the BBC is has now abandoned any pretence of neutrality on the climate issue. It is a full time propaganda mill and the Tories won’t touch it. It will continue to preach the dogmas of multiculturalism, white privilege, climate voodoo, soft-pedal illegal immigration and jump on every BLM style bandwagon. In short The 2019 election was the greatest bait and switch operation ever executed in British politics. We’ve been had and Farage let it happen.

Since then, the corpse of the Brexit Party has limped on as the personal plaything of Richard Tice, deeply in bed with the Spectators set, largely soaking up resources and attention that it cannot usefully leverage. With Tice’s money it can field candidates but I couldn’t actually tell you what it stands for or what it seeks to achieve. Tice’s recent remarks about Ukip suggest he wants to continue playing by the old rules of behaving in public and trying not to tread on politically correct landmines. I think we are way beyond that.

Prior to 2016 the insurgent right needed the media platform so, to an extent, had to drop the hot potato issues. But how many issues can we afford to drop just to be heard, and if we’re prepared to drop immigration and opposition to climate superstition, what even is the point?

Though I had my many differences with Ukip as regards to its approach to Brexit, I no longer see Brexit as especially important. I was pointing out as far back as 2014 that Brexit would not live up to the right’s expectation as primarily because the EU was not the hellmouth of regulation. Rather it was the delivery boy for bland and anonymous UN led international organisations. We now find that though we have left the EU we are still implementing global treaties and global agendas, and the Tories are still their willing servants. Without domestic democratic reform, enshrining the concept of public consent, Brexit makes very little difference to how we are governed. The establishment is still dancing to the same tune. The war is not over.

In respect of that, I can put my differences with Ukip aside. It still supports a number of populist tropes and has yet to evolve its position on post-Brexit EU relations but that is no longer a priority for me. Whatever damage the cack-handed execution of Brexit may have done, it is eclipsed by the disastrous response to Covid and the onslaught of Net Zero and climate change inspired policies.

There we see Britain is heading for long term misery as decades of misrule catch up on us. As a direct result of artificial targets laid down by the EU Large Combustion Plant Directive and the Renewables Directive, Britain is in a very precarious position where we will certainly see energy rationing for industry and may yet see rolling blackouts due to grid instability.

We are also looking at a major problem in waste disposal since the economics of recycling are disrupted by the end of low wage exploitation facilitated by freedom of movement. We need emergency reforms to keep the lights on and stop rubbish mountains piling up. We can no longer dump our plastic waste on the developing world. We need pragmatic solutions but that can only happen if we have a government acting in the national interest rather than geared to implementing globalist green agendas.

We also face massive pressures on housing and transport infrastructure, which simply won’t be fixed unless we fix immigration. There is also the question of how law and order can be sustained when government must make endless allowances for all comers. This is a more fundamental question of maintaining a cohesive British culture.

Right now I have two choices. I can bitch and moan about the inadequacy of the Westminster parties and opt out of voting, in which case I essentially submit to whatever they intend to do to me, or I can fight back. My vote, my voice are all that I have, and for it to matter I have to stand with those who think and feel the same way.

Even if I don’t particularly like them.

These days I feel somewhat liberated in who I stand with. Before the referendum it was necessary to put some distance between the Brexit cause and the more “extreme” elements but the so-called extremes are starting to look like the only sane actors still in the game. The Tories have gone off the deep end completely, the Labour front bench think it’s wrong to say that only women have a cervix, and the Lib Dems managed to combine the worst facets of both. Meanwhile the Green party is wholly redundant while Boris is at the helm.

By the measure of the supposed centrists, I can now be considered far right but that really only speaks to the corruption of language in politics. As someone who does believe in border controls and that it’s probably for the best for women, gay’s and Jews if we don’t have an open door to Somalia and Pakistan where rape culture is the predominant culture. By that measure I’m basically a 1990’s liberal. I’m even to be considered far right and populist for opposing disastrous renewable energy projects that will leave millions in fuel poverty and without heating. The supposed rational moderate centre leaves me wondering if I’m the only sane person left on earth.

More to the point, though I vividly remember just how much of a cringeworthy shambles Ukip was in the 2015 election, even at their worst they couldn’t possibly be worse than any of the Westminster parties, or any of the media recognised fringe outfits spawned by devolution. The relatively sound policies coming out of Ukip just lately represent the conservative core of Britain that unites traditional Labour voters and proper conservatives. Ukip isn’t the freak show. They are.

As to the much fabled “links to the far right” I am aware that some in Ukip find common cause with right wing parties in the EU who make the far right in the UK look like the Women’s Institute. This, I feel is misguided in that they have mistaken European right wing sentiment as akin with our own. It isn’t. The British right wing is its own distinct cause fighting for a British idea of a fair and free society, not tied in with the ethno-nationalism of Poland or parts of Germany.

I never have had any sympathy with ethno-nationalism but I can see why it looks like a revival. With the establishment pushing identity politics and extending political privilege to political groups on the basis of ethnicity, it was inevitable that a new white identity politics would emerge. You can’t turn on the TV without them ramming the corporate BLM agenda down your throat. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Leftist identity politics is playing midwife to a new far right. That is why it is so very necessary to purge these American left wing ideas from our universities and if the Tories won’t then we will see a genuine fascist movement in the UK.

Ukip as I see it, is really just the nationalist conservative party that the Tories should be, and one the country desperately needs. I know that that is no chance of it ever winning power, and due to the rigged system of representative democracy overthrowing the establishment by traditional means is not possible. But we can put the proverbial gun to the head of the Tories. I anticipate low turnouts at the next election, meaning the high turn out of support for motivated minnow parties can tilt the balance in marginal constituencies. Ukip can rebuild that power and it doesn’t take a lot.

It would be far easier for me to simply resign myself to the intellectual and moral collapse of British politics, but if we are going down, I’m not going down without a fight. I’m under no illusions about who and what Ukip are, and the enormity of the task ahead, but now is the time to put my money where my mouth is. Nobody is going to do it for me and waiting on millionaire donors and media attention didn’t get us anywhere. If we want change we will have to do it ourselves, the long and hard way. We don’t need millionaire donors and we have no use for the legacy media. Hard work did it before and will do it again.