To our surprise, the courts did not block Priti Patel’s plan to remove illegal immigrants. But as it now stands, fewer than ten migrants are due to be on the inaugural flight to Rwanda after dozens of individuals lodged last-minute legal challenges. And we don’t need any reminding that hundreds more rock up on our shores by the day. 111 migrants reached the UK yesterday on three boats. Patel is fiddling around the edges.

The Tories are nowhere close to getting a grip on the situation. Patel could and should have anticipated this kind of action when the new borders bill was drafted. We remain convinced that the Tories aren’t entirely serious about tackling this invasion of undesirables. Meanwhile, in defiance of convention, we have Prince Charles sticking his oar in, branding the Rwanda plan as “appalling” and various celebs are now bankrolling legal appeals for refugees. This is now the front line in the culture war between a population who wants controlled borders and a liberal elite who want open borders.

This week we also see yet another mob obstructing justice and preventing the police from removing an illegal immigrant. It has now become a regular occurrence to see the police backing down before left wing mobs. The same week in which Muslim extremists protested outside cinemas to demand the cancellation of a film. As with the BLM mobs, it’s becoming apparent that the police will cave in to every mob for any reason. It’s beyond the joke. British taxpayers are being held hostage by minorities and affluent elites.

I don’t know about you but my patience is wearing thin. This government was elected to get a grip on immigration yet we’re still subject to the moral blackmail of leftists. One starts to wonder if it’s time to form mobs of our own. The precedent set over the last couple of years is that mob action works whereas legitimate democratic particpation does not. Since the police will always take the path of least resistance and our politicians are too gutless to enact the majority will, maybe it’s time to stop playing nice.

Elsewhere in the news we learn that UK farmers are turning to Nepal and Tajikistan for fruit pickers. Before EU freedom of movement we had a perfectly good system for temporary agricultural workers, but now we have the worst of all possible worlds, recruiting from further away, bringing in people who will stay forever, and in all likelihood won’t see out a full season in the agriculture sector. They’ll disappear into the woodwork. Meanwhile non-EU immigration is at record levels.

Immigration is a complex issue and Brexit alone certainly wasn’t going to fix it, but a message was sent that the people demand properly enforced borders. This isn’t happening under the Tories. They didn’t get the message. Yet again voters have been ignored. The Home Office is failing on every score while its senior civil servants are doing all they can to frustrate government policy. The Home Office needs to be dismantled and replaced with a dedicated office for the removal of illegals with better vetting of staff.

In 2019, Priti Patel promised to halve the number of channel crossings, but we’re set to see another record year and nobody will be surprised of the Rwanda plan falls apart. In any case, irrespective of the dinghy crisis, there are over a million illegals in the UK and we need to see at least one full plane load a week before we can say this government is remotely serious. But we all know the open borders blob is calling the shots.

This is in danger of causing a constitutional crisis. A country without borders isn’t a country. A government which cannot make and implement laws and refuses to take on the establishment is one that will allow itself to be pushed around by anyone and is therefore incapable of asserting its authority. It is then open to challenges on every front bringing us closer to anarchy. Meanwhile the civic contract evaporates.

We have previously remarked that this Tory government more closely resembles the Blair administration than that of Mrs Thatcher, but it’s becoming clearer that it’s even worse than that. Reading policy speeches over the last couple of years we know that the Tories know what needs to be done and why, but they just don’t want to take on the fight or assert their authority even with an eighty seat majority. The shrieking of the left wing press terrifies them. The Tories are dancing to the tune of the establishment.

Both Blair and Thatcher had no qualms about using power and asserting their authority. The Tory party that exists today is unwilling to use the power it has. We need radical policy changes but this isn’t a radical Tory government. They are tax and spend administrators who don’t want to rock the boat. Brexit promised to be a radical agenda but we’ve seen the Tories shunt it into a siding where they’ve quietly abandoned it. The latest noise about the NI protocol is just a smokescreen. On everything else, the Tories are content to maintain the pre-Brexit status quo.

A coherent conservative government would recognise that Britain needs to go much further than fixing immigration. For decades immigration has been used as a sticking plaster to mask a sclerotic economy and to plug skills gaps. We need a major overhaul of higher education, restoring the polytechnics, gearing more toward vocational subjects. We need radical welfare reform and skills training to tackle inactivity and we need urgent tax cuts to stop the economy grinding to a halt. But that’s what we’re not getting. The Tories are still pressing ahead with the suicidal Net Zero agenda in the absence of a plan.

Beyond the economic, Britain is a fragmented country where social mobility is collapsing and beyond the cosmetic Jubilee celebrations, there is no national unity or sense of national purpose. The devolution dunghills are ripping at the fabric of the nation, while the collapse of local democracy leaves people powerless in their own communities. Our decaying and corrupt institutions no longer serve us, our democracy is a joke and we’re losing our cities to barbarians.

Boris Johnson has squandered every day of his term so far, and done all he can to alienate his core supporters. He’s lost what little moral authority he had, and barely commands the support of his own backbenchers. He’ll be gone sooner or later and replaced with yet another pretender who’ll talk the talk but won’t walk the walk. Who leads the Tory party is a matter of supreme indifference. The party is rotten. It serves the interests of its donors and the financial interests of its MPs. Every principle is expendable in order to stay in power even if that means achieving nothing while in power. There is no point in voting for the Conservatives.

We are told that Labour would be worse, and that is certainly true, but a general election now is really just a referendum on the pace of decline unless the people abandon the establishment parties. Sadly that isn’t going to happen. Reform, Reclaim and UKIP aren’t cutting through, the half dozen far right parties are dead in the water, and there’s nothing fresh emerging from the left either. Internet activism has replaced movement building but online influence doesn’t translate into political power. UKIP was probably the last genuine grassroots movement in British politics. Democracy as we knew it is now dead and buried though we still go through the motions. But that won’t last.

Britain is a sharply divided country and there is no likelihood of reconciliation any time soon. Economic stresses will exacerbate the tensions and we’ll see them spilling out into the streets. It will make Brexit look like a tea party. We’re in for the most turbulent decade since the seventies and we’ll no doubt see riots. Britain can’t keep limping on without radical reform. The policies and politics of the globalisation era cannot survive into this decade. There’s a fight to be had for the soul of the nation and it won’t wait for politicians to catch up. When voting no longer has meaning, the centre cannot hold.