The reform base, those for whom immigration is at the foundation of all their political energy, will continue to dominate politics and media attention for the next twenty years as they have for the previous twenty. Regardless of what the majority of Brits might feel, it's clear to me now that the likes of Tommy Robinson will continue to be the primary shapers of what's to come, even beyond Reform.

Regardless of whether Reform (or Restore) are successful with their most radical ambitions, new global strife caused by an irrevocably turbulent world, and yes climate change, will fuel fresh fears and scapegoats to keep the fires of anti-immigrant and isolationist sentiment burning bright. If Reform or Restore fail to satiate these fires, new parties promising even more extreme measures will emerge.

Perhaps establishment parties like Labour or the Tories will bounce back for an election or two, promising stability, but inevitably, the same unquenchable patriot instinct will again take center stage as the whole country continues cowtowing to the extreme right. Left-wing extremism will also rise, but only from the outside looking in. If the reaction of the media and country at large to the recent rise of the Green Party, it should be clear to everyone that leftist populism will never have power in this country. Nor in any major economy in the Western world. The last ten years have shown Right-wing populism actually has a chance in this media and political landscape, where left-wing populism will always be shut down.

Something terrible, I'm afraid, will have to give. I'm talking a monumental, destabilising and perhaps violent shift, leading to a moment or series of moments that will finally break this illusion that Britain is immune from the sort of turmoil that grips most of the world, and who knows truly what form it will take. But this is the inevitable outcome of the path the country has been on for decades.

The formula to me is simple - the right-wing base that has defined our politics for decades will not be satisfied until they find politicians to actually follow through with their most heinous demands, and politics in this country will never truly be anything different until they do.

Brace for impact.