The resignation of the newly elected leader Diane James because she cannot gain control, is a public declaration that the party for UKIP is all but over. It had a purpose and it fulfilled it. It was a platform for Nigel Farage. It achieved its goal. The UK is off out of the EU. Farage retires. Left behind is a collection of quarrelsome discontents who agree about nothing and who are hell bent on a path to self destruction. A huge shift in the political weather with the new interventionist, left moving, Tory party and the 21st century socialism of Corbyn’s Labour, will be for UKIP all but overwhelming. It probably makes no difference whoever is leader now.
Even if Nigel Farage comes back. Again.