Annabel Denham is a name probably not known to many Australians, nor even to her fellow Britons. She is a commentator and Deputy Comment Editor for The Telegraph newspaper in London.

Recently Denham stumbled upon and wrote about the core problem facing those among the outsider class who see conventional Party politics as the path to attaining power and of beginning a reversal to normalcy.

TAKEOVER

That is, in Britain and Australia. The Americans have found a way of squaring this circle.

He is called Donald J Trump, who, having engineered a takeover of the previously elitist and awful Republican Party, is now setting out to crush the unelected elites in the bureaucracy. (Who knows if any Trump-led gains over the next four years will not later be reversed?)

Denham’s article was crisply titled: “If Farage succeeds in destroying the Tories, we are doomed to perpetual Left-wing rule.

“The Reform Party Leader knows what has gone wrong – but he can never hope to fix it.”

The argument is spot on. The more success Farage has, with or without Elon Musk, the more he will simply doom the Tories and his own Reform UK to a perpetual race for second in British elections.

Goofball Starmer and his Labour successors will simply occupy the Treasury benches forever, and sentence the mother country to hell on earth. Farage’s efforts will have been for nothing.

We have seen this playing out this week past in Victoria. Awful, awful nonentities squabbling over nothing. A change at the helm, but with little sign of focused intent or hope of systemic, sustained change.

The reason for the stalemate lies in the electoral system of each country. Whether it is FPP (first past the post) or our antipodean version of preferential voting, each jurisdiction is fated to rule by one or other branch of the UniParty.

This is what MAGA-man Jack Posobiec has called the “woke lite”. Globalist, socially liberal, comfortable with international capitalism, anti-religion, embracing of diversity and mass immigration. Big government with corporate ties. The elite club.

On the Liberal side, we are doomed to always-moderate-inclined rule – aka heading towards the cliff at a slightly slower pace than Labor’s rush towards it.

Occasionally there are little wins and small signs of hope – as in the Voice referendum and proposals for nuclear energy – but the overall direction of travel never changes.

The Australian dilemma is summed up in one man. His name is Craig Kelly.

He left the Liberal Party to join Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party. Then he left the UAP to join One Nation. And now he has left One Nation – seemingly in decline with financial woes and also losing a NSW Upper House member – to join the Libertarian Party.

HELL

One hell of an example of the law of diminishing returns. Literally. Kelly may or may not have had good reasons for each switch. And he is a very good man.

He has courageously pursued the right causes on all the issues that matter to freedom-fighters. But his continued progressions sideways do rather sum up the problem.

Back to Annabel Denham of The Telegraph. Her content is as crisp and succinct as her headline. It has much force, and bears reflection in each country.

She concludes: “In the space of just a month Britain has witnessed two symbolic political moments. First, Reform polled higher than Labour.

“Then, this week, its membership reportedly powered past the most recent Tory tally of 131,000. The country’s long-threatened populist shake-up is happening faster than we could have imagined this time last year.

“The Tories are rattled: by quibbling Reform’s card carrier numbers on Thursday, Kemi Badenoch committed her first major unforced error.

But you can see why they’re worried; as Conservative central office will well know, members means foot soldiers – the volunteers who campaign, drop leaflets, set up branch offices and turn voter intentions into crosses at the ballot box.

“If Reform’s new members are prepared to buckle down to this, they are going to be a formidable force.”

So far for Reform UK, so good. But with the Tories destroyed – after all Farage’s goal is to cannibalise the Conservative Party not unite the Right – what comes next?”

The question is, will they ever gain office and be in a position to reverse things?

Starmer’s administration is the most dangerous in decades. The Tories are as yet light years away from convincing us they can reinvent themselves.

So Reform is an increasingly plausible alternative.

But perhaps we should say the quiet part out loud: what if putting our faith in this new Party is no better than a desperately thirsty man gulping buckets of saltwater while lost at sea?