I could almost feel sorry for Liz Truss. These times would test even the ablest of politicians and there is so much going on which is simply beyond the control of any one prime minister. She’s be been dealt an unwinnable hand. Whether or not she made the right decision yesterday scarcely matters. She was going to be hammered either way. Moreover, she simply doesn’t have the gravitas to win the confidence of the markets, the nation, or even her party. She is only in post because the party could not agree on a more convincing leader.

It’s now doubtful as to whether she can remain in post. It’s hard to see how a PM can withstand the sacking of her own chancellor within weeks of taking office and it now looks like the Tory coalition is unleadable. The factions do not have enough politically in common to unite. Any decisive agenda was always going to alienate the other half of the party. They kept their mouths shut about Johnson because they at least owed him their seats. They owe Truss nothing.

The claim, though, that in u-turning on corporation tax, Truss has abandoned conservative principle sounds faintly ridiculous. Have conservative commentators been asleep for the last two years? For starters, Johnson's Net Zero represents the largest spending programme of all time, all planned centrally, to turn our energy grid into the biggest Rube Goldberg machine the world has ever seen.

In respect of that, it it unlikely that a freeze on corporation tax would make any difference to investor confidence – nor will it do much for competitiveness when the Tory party is absolutely determined to drive up energy costs. If Britain wants to seen as the place to do business then we need a clear plan to get energy costs under control. We simply cannot ask investors to set up shop in Britain when we’re pushing unproven "green" technologies that will destabilise the supply of electricity.

In any case, the betrayal of conservative voters happened under Johnson many moons ago. Those who voted for him thought they were getting a fresh start – but within weeks, Johnson’s government turned into a big spending, authoritarian party of mass immigration. Why it’s taken this long for Tory pundits to wake up beats the hell out of me. Still, better late than never.

It should now have dawned on even the thickest of the conservative commentariat that if you want anything approaching a conservative minded government then the Tory party is a lost cause. The party is determined to disappoint and alienate its core vote. Truss is just the final stop in the party’s long march into oblivion. It now seems like a Labour win by default is unavoidable.

If Labour does take power though, it won’t be because Labour has proven its worth. It will simply be because vast swathes of the nation stay at home, concluding that voting isn’t worth venturing out into the rain. The two party cartel is spent. We need both of these sclerotic parties to die. Neither is capable of of delivering what the country wants, and for as long as there exists a social democratic consensus, voters will continue to be denied a meaningful choice at the ballot box.

But then we know we won’t get that change. The mainstream parties only ever want democratic reform while in opposition. There is no way to break this cartel without an uprising. UKIP is the only party that came close, and only managed it, ironically, through participating in EU elections. Until we take to the streets we’ll continue to be ruled by a an immovable blob of technocrats and lobbyists. Democracy in the United Kingdom is dead.

In the meantime, all we can do is use our votes to punish the Tories for their betrayal. I’ll be voting UKIP because UKIP is the only party with a credible energy policy and a plan to fix immigration. No society can prosper without cheap abundant energy. No liberal democracy can survive without functioning borders. The mainstream parties cannot be trusted to deliver. UKIP will.