Leaders such as Liz Truss have failed us says Ben Harris-Quinney (Image: Getty)  An old saying in the British aristocracy was that most families can survive one bad heir, but few can survive

two. The reality is that Britain hasn't had anyone with the requisite ability to be Prime Minister for a decade and a half, and we haven't had anyone with both the ability and

right ideas to lead the nation for more than three decades. RELATED ARTICLES The results are for all to see, declining living standards, declining public services, and a nation so divided

across all sorts of fault-lines as to be more representative of a random airport lounge than a country. Margaret Thatcher famously listened to a civil servant explain to her that her task

Margaret Thatcher, just as we warned about Cameron, May and Boris. Our incompetent out-of touch leaders are not the fault of true democracy, but an establishment that is as resistant to

necessary change and public pressure as it was in feudal times. The usual establishment forces are touring the airwaves explaining why we now need to get rid of Truss for another coronated

establishment figure like May to come in and replace the "far-right" Lib Dem Remainer, and get back to a less chaotic form of managed decline. Margaret Thatcher was able to reverse

Britain's decline (Image: Getty) The answer to a string of leaders who wouldn't get elected to a school fete committee off their own steam isn't less democracy however, it is

much, much, more. Brexit exposed the fact that while the majority of the country wanted to leave the EU, circa 70 percent of Parliament and 80 percent of the Cabinet did not. Since the

Brexit vote three of the four Prime Ministers we've had have been Remainers, and the other one was merely in two minds as to what best served his career. On this and most major areas of

policy, our political class are completely out of touch with the public, and even if they are backed into paying lip service to the public's demands, they have no intention of carrying

them out. The public are understandably constantly perplexed as to why this is happening. Why do we have leaders who couldn't run a cake stall? Why do we have a democracy where what

the public want is never implemented? Why do we have politicians the public hate but unaccountably cannot remove from power? Shielded from reality, protected by a sclerotic political system

and comforted by lavish expenses and benefits, our political class have unaccountably been able to stay in power despite the public trying to vote them and their disastrous ideas out time

and time again. Trump's analysis of illegal migrants applies better to that political class - "They’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems,

and they’re bringing those problems.” What the public are witnessing is the result of politicians rising to power who have never had to build a genuine base of public support or test their

ideas against reality, but have rather been anointed for power by an elite to enact policies no one voted for. We are told by people like Lord Finkelstein that what is happening is the fault

of the Conservative Party members having a vote, and it would be much better if sensible establishment figures like him merely selected who should run Britain. This approach not only makes

a mockery of the Conservative Party, and our democracy itself, it is the very reason we are in this mess. The members of the Conservative Party didn't choose Liz Truss, they were given

a Hobson's choice of two establishment candidates.  Conservatives were given limited options when choosing new PM Liz Truss (Image: Getty) Given the full choice of Conservative MPs who

put themselves forward the members would have unquestionably chosen Suella Braverman or Kemi Badenoch, who's ideas bear some resemblance to Conservatism and would hold a base to

withstand pressure from the media or Davos elites. Moreover, if we had a full national primary system, the public would be unlikely to pick anyone that had ever been anywhere near Parliament

to represent and lead them. The Conservative Party's only strategy to cling to power has been a rinse and repeat cycle of leaders coming forward promising change, getting exposed as

being useless establishment con-men, and then being replaced by a new fake. That cycle must now reach its end. The only hope for this Government to regain control, authority and popularity

is to do what the public have clearly told them to do: Reverse decades of mass immigration, get the national finances under control, get living standards rising, decisively sever us from the

EU, and push the woke cancer out of Britain. They will find if they do as if by magic their popularity will skyrocket, even if they can't organise a decent speech or press conference.

It should be easy for a genuinely conservative party to win elections because people keep voting for sovereignty, nationhood and conservatism. The people certainly didn't vote to roll

back the frontiers of the EU to have even more Davos-inspired globalist policies like Net Zero applied domestically. The only hope for the country in the longer term to find sound leadership

is to introduce a primary system so the public can choose without restriction the candidates they want to lead them, and a new system of proportional representation so that new parties with

public support can rise to replace those that have lost their way. Truly the people must now take back control from the political class before it is too late to reverse decline. After such

a long succession of failed leaders it isn't just last orders at the last chance saloon for Liz Truss, or the Conservative Party, it is last orders for Britain. * COMMENT BY BEN

HARRIS-QUINNEY IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOW GROUP.