PAUL COLLITS
The globalist forces in Brussels, Geneva and so many other nodes of power might be licking their wounds – for the moment – over Trump, but, surely, they are openly sniggering over their prospects in His Majesty’s United Kingdom, aka the Pommy Caliphate.
Nigel Farage, hero of Brexit – to the extent that Brexit has actually made any real difference to British policy-making – and now leader of Reform UK, is currently making the news for all the wrong reasons. Reform, hailed by many on the alt-right as the new big thing, is politically becalmed and possibly in decline after peaking, very moderately.
I concluded some time back that Reform, electorally limp and trapped in a first-past-the-post voting system, would only ever eat into the Tory vote and would leave British Labour relaxed and comfortable as the awful, ghastly government in perpetuity. This is what played out at the election last July. Despite all the excitement and talk of a revolution (by the likes of Matt Goodwin) in 2024, Reform ran an honourable but useless second often, and ended up with a lousy five seats, on the back of a 14 per cent vote share. As the BBC explained:
The gap between the share of total votes won by the winning party in the 2024 general election and the share of Parliamentary seats won is the largest on record, BBC Verify has found.
This disparity has prompted renewed calls for reform of the electoral system, with Richard Tice of Reform UK complaining on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday of the “injustice” that his party had received millions of votes but only five seats in Parliament.
He said: “That is blatantly not a properly functioning democratic system – that is a flawed system. The demands for change will grow and grow.”
The Green Party’s co-leader Adrian Ramsay said he wanted to see a “fairer system” to ensure that “every vote counts equally”.
The Electoral Reform Society claimed it was “the most disproportional in British electoral history”.
The UK’s first-past-the-post system has a tendency to generate disproportionate results compared with systems in some other countries. So are these latest complaints justified?
Reform’s roughly four million votes translates into a 14% share of the total votes cast in the election, but only 1% of all the seats in the House of Commons.
By contrast, Labour won 34% of total votes cast, but about 64% of the 650 seats.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c886pl6ldy9o
Ouch. It might be unfair, but that is life. And it won’t change. Not on Labour’s watch. Mind you, a 14 per cent national vote share is enough to make Australia’s miniscule and splintered “freedom parties” salivate. In a more sympathetic electoral system, this would be a fine base upon which to build real momentum and political impact. Doing that well also provides a megaphone with which to get your policy ideas and dissident philosophy to a much larger audience. To be regarded with some respect.
And as if this hill to climb isn’t enough, Reform is now imploding. It seems to be literally throwing away its opportunity and ceding the considerable ground it has made to the establishment that it once pretended to challenge.
And Farage and his ego seem largely to blame. He has forced the exit of two of reform’s stars, Ben Habib and now Rupert Lowe. Members are leaving in droves. The reform “split” is soaking up media space. In the face of an appalling and hopeless Government. The headlines tell the story:
Reform UK councillors resign in protest over Farage.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lz8xn8zd8o
Reform faces split as Farage hits back over ‘messianic’ criticism.
Nigel Farage ‘horrified’ as Reform devastated by civil war with party split in two.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2027686/nigel-farage-reform-uk-party-civil-war
With five MPs, it isn’t as though Reform has plenty to play with.
Worse than the personnel bungling is the apparent shift away from policies that Reform’s supporters want, indeed, demand, and an embrace of the mainstream. Farage seems to have been seduced by the whiff of parliamentary leather. Now that he is finally in the House of Commons, he is starting to act like an insider. As he often now says in the face of his critics, totally unrealistically, “we have an election to win in 2029”. Whatever that means. All this hasn’t impressed the powerful Elon Musk, who not so long ago saw Farage as the hope of the side in Old Blighty.
On the “allegations” of “verbal threats” against Lowe, Habib suggests:
There is not a shred of proof, not one iota of proof in any of the accusations made by Lee Anderson [a former Tory MP, now with Reform] and Zia Yusuf [Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf, a “Scottish” millionaire businessman and Chairman of Reform] against Rupert Lowe.’
Former Deputy Leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib says Reform’s attempt to ‘rubbish’ Rupert Lowe is proof the party is ‘not up to the job’.
Is Reform UK now a limited hangout? Totally. Is Reform a globalist asset? Highly arguable.
With Canada now, for the time being, safely in the hands of an unelected globalist (Mark Carney), Sir Keir Groomer, despite the loathing of him by large chunks of the British electorate, in situ until 2029, an establishment-insider figure, Kemi Bandenoch, leading the Tories and various continental European alt-right parties excluded from governing by various bits of legacy party chicanery, the globalist PPP (public-private-partnership) cabal must be delighted at Reform’s emergent implosion. It will allow Sir Groomer to get on with the active planning of World War III so important to the globalists’ depopulation agenda.
Farage may not look and talk like an establishment asset. That is the beauty of assets. Of double agents. They use their undoubted skill sets and acting ability to convince people they are on their side. And the suggestible will believe them. The Manchurian candidates may not even be aware of their assumed roles.
Farage’s tip-toeing began with his abandonment of anti-Islamist hero Tommy Robinson.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7ve4m1q42vo
And that also started the drift away of Reform members. They thought they had signed up for an insurgency. Many of them love Tommy and his metier.
At The Conservative Woman, John Hale laments:
WHAT ON EARTH is Reform doing to itself, and the millions who support it and look to it as the potential saviour of the UK? Who exactly is responsible for the utterly chaotic shambles that is unfolding in front of us? Members are now asking if this is a serious political force, or some toytown plaything of a handful of political wannabes who, with the first smell of success trying to create their own version of the Conservative Party, are now woefully out of their depth and unable to control the monster that they have created?
Four million individuals turned out and voted for a party that is now tearing itself apart. Their online vote counter didn’t look so clever when its tally was decreasing, demonstrating membership cancellations following on from this fracas. How many, like me, will just let their membership lapse when it is up for renewal, dismayed by the accusations showered around, topping off the insulting aspersions and change of course in recent months, that the combatants on either side now seem incapable of exercising restraint over?
Indeed. He continues:
On his Substack, Matt Goodwin made a reasoned defence and argument for continuing with Reform, and I respect his convictions. He misses the point entirely, however, as though it didn’t exist as the central issue. For core Reform supporters, this is not just about immigration overload, Net Zero madness, gender ideology and so on; it is about something much deeper, something that touches the soul and emotional patriotism, our ongoing culture and the ‘feel’ of our society, a conviction that goes beyond policy tick boxes.
‘We want our country back’ – the wish of so many people. The chant of the crowds. The cry of the disenfranchised patriot. The plea of the true conservative citizen.
We need Reform to address what it is that has been taken, that we demand be reclaimed and returned. What is that booty, purloined while we were asleep at the wheel or preoccupied by our own lives?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-rebuke-to-all-the-reform-combatants/
Those around the traps at the moment who chastise Trump and his radical cabinet colleagues, from a range of establishment perspectives, are simps who just don’t recognise what is at stake, what has been lost, and the strategies needed to get back that which we have lost. They do not understand the war we are in, what the enemy has done to us, how they don’t play by the old rules – or any rules, really – and how, therefore, the dissident outsider politicians like Trump need also to not play by the old rules.
What is needed is, above all else, to move fast and break things, as Jonathan Taplin argued in his book about Facebook, Amazon and Google.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Move-Fast-Break-Things-Undermined/dp/0316275778
God help me for suggesting that we emulate Mark Zuckerberg. Taplin was describing the seizing of opportunities created by the internet to create new global monopolies in tech. I don’t remotely admire the outcomes of their efforts. But their methods were commercially compelling, strategically brilliant and can and should be applied to insurgent government. It is called disruption in the start-up world, the gospel of the late, great Clayton Christensen.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/1/30/clayton-christensen-obituary/
John Hale at TCW gets moving fast and breaking things. Trump 2.0 gets this. As Chris Uhlmann says, politically we now have a world “where the road rules have been torn up”.
Source, The Australian, 15 March 2025, paywalled.
It seems that Reform UK has abandoned a revolutionary approach in favour of steady-as-she-goes, old politics. Wow, on this trajectory, they might double their seats in 2029 … to ten. Out of 650.
As Mark Steyn comments pithily:
When Farage says Rupert Lowe has been captured by the “online far right”, he’s saying that Reform’s priority should continue to be aging lounge-bar whingers who, above all else, see themselves as the voice of Middle England and have no desire to remake themselves as firebrand revolutionaries. Of course, being a mainstream normie doesn’t mean the uniparty won’t shut you out anyway: ask Mme Le Pen, whose strategy of “de-demonisation” and reinvention of herself as a harmless cat lady Nigel seems to be trying to emulate. In France, the cat lady herself has a Paris prosecutor demanding she be gaoled for five years and banned from public office.
https://www.steynonline.com/15110/moving-on-to-the-next-phase
Indeed. What a ridiculous claim by Farage (about Lowe). Farage is even using the very same insult (far right) used by the establishment. He is playing into the hands of those who we once might have thought to have been his enemies. He has taken on the appearance of yet another puppet. He who once seemed to know the nature of the game now seems not to. Or, perhaps, he has simply lost the will to fight that he once had.
Farage is also a nervous Nellie. The inevitable Douglas Murray weighs in (inevitably):
Author Douglas Murray reacts to the internal “disagreement” between Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage and MP Rupert Lowe.
“From what I can see, it actually boils down for once to an issue of policy and not of personalities,” Mr Murray said.
“Rupert Lowe has been going very hard actually in Parliament and on social media … about issues like the deportation of illegal migrants in the UK.
“Nigel Farage has been reacting to these statements of Rupert Lowes … giving interviews in which he says that it’s just not possible to deport all of the illegal migrants who are in the UK.
“It is a very, very interesting disagreement because to my mind, if you say we have perhaps millions of people in the country illegally … then they should be made to leave.
“Nigel Farage is clearly terrified of the policy or of saying that.
“Either Reform can continue to be a party where people who are opposed to the mainstream narrative recent decades can put their trust, or it isn’t, and it falls apart as so many small parties have before.”
We all abhor illegal immigration. But they are here now. What to do? It’s so difficult! Let’s keep putting them up in posh hotels. So that a goodly number of them can go about and anally rape or stab our white children. Sir Nigel Groomer.
That is, in fact, the nub of it.
This is more than a battle for the soul of Reform UK. It is a war of the worlds. And prosecuting this war will be messy and complicated, when the good guys finally get their hands on the levers of power (or office, at least). As Team Trump will discover. Is discovering.
But, across the pond, Reform UK seems not to be interested even in trying to get to first base. As it is said, the world is run by the people who turn up. Reform UK needs to turn up.
Many people will be disappointed at the turn of events. They already knew they couldn’t trust the Tories either to say the right things or to do the right things. After all, their 14 appalling years in office are still very, very fresh in the memory.
Back in the day, Nigel Farage seemed like the coming man. A little like Trump, who rode into the fray (or down the escalator) in 2015 after decades of American conservative disappointment. Now Farage believes his own bullshit. It all looks like it is now blowing up in the faces of the 80 per cent of Britons who, as Matt Goodwin has argued, are utterly opposed to the direction of policy and cultural travel and who have simply nowhere to go electorally.
No wonder they are really, really pissed off. But some aren’t that pissed off, or so Patrick O’Flynn suggests in The Spectator:
After a spectacular week of feuding, opinion polls appear to show support for Reform UK remains unscathed. Reform somehow still sits at level-pegging with Labour – perhaps even a point ahead – with the Tories several points further adrift.
Well, maybe. Reform still has to win seats, though, even if it does get through the current feud and policy stumbles. And if the reductionist Farage policy view prevails, and Reform builds greater electoral success and somehow attain access to power, what will come of it all, anyway, if they abandon their base and their reason for being?
After Trump leaves office, or perhaps, after J D Vance leaves office, the globalist elites, the puppeteers, will be hoping for a seamless return to their rightful ownership of the world. It will have been a mere sabbatical. No such pause buttons on their domination need to be pressed in relation to the Mother Country, alas.
This article (Farage’s Folly and the Ends of Globalist Power) was created and published by Paul Collits and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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