Reform's Recycled Tories Trap The Young Bloods Must Wage Internal War Against The Old FailuresBy Nick Griffin November 2025
Nigel Farage has many faults. My list starts with his boast that the thing of which he is proudest in his entire career is not getting Britain out of the EU (well, sort of), but stopping the BNP. If you ever needed proof of his safety valve role, there it is. His refusal to speak out against debanking until it happened to him, when it first happened to me and Britain’s serious nationalists back in the year 2000, is another. His claim to be a rebel and a fighter for principle fell at the first hurdle when he failed that Pastor Niemuller test (“first they debanked Nick Griffin, and I did not speak out….”). His fake opposition to immigration is another; he’s been at it for years, and he still is. While he worked hand-in-glove with the BBC to block the BNP, he posed as “anti-immigration”, but the only sort of immigrants he opposed were white, Christian, East Europeans He was always in favour of immigration from “our traditional sources” - particularly the Indian sub-continent. Today he makes political hay opposing the 10% of immigrants who arrive illegally, and calling for the deportation of criminals. But, as Giorgia Meloni has shown in Italy, such populist rhetoric is only window-dressing for the tsunami of Hindus and Africans these capitalist stooges want to let in as cheap labour and fresh meat for the consumerist nation-grinder. What’s He Playing At?But, for all his faults, Nigel Farage is a brilliant politician; as a political operator he is head-and-shoulders above any other figure in British political life for decades. He is, perhaps, the Last of the Big Beasts. Which makes it all the more puzzling that he is risking millions of Red Wall votes by allowing Reform to become an active retirement home for failed Tories. To take on a few Conservative defectors in the early days was one thing, each of them provided a publicity and credibility puff which helped put Reform in the public eye. But that job is done. It was done and dusted at least a year ago. Reform is a mile in front of both of the old “natural parties of government” precisely because the public hate them both. Every single opinion poll since April has shown that the next election is his not to win, but to lose. And associating Reform with the failed Tories is one way to do that. Continuing to muddy the clear water between Reform and the utterly discredited and electorally toxic Conservative party is an act of political folly, extremely uncharacteristic of the normally wily Farage. What on earth is he thinking of? I’ll give you just one example: Nadine Dorries, who Farage welcomed - literally with open arms - into the Reform Party in September, The presence of this withered old reject is particuarly dangerous to Reform, given her central role in the creation of a piece of legislation whose repeal is central to Reform’s bid to position itself as the champion of traditional freedom.  Here was The Independent, on 2nd November 2021, as it waxed lyrical about how then-Tory Minister Dorries was leading to charge to force through the Online Safty Act - which Reform rightly criticises as ‘dystopian’ and has promised to scrap: ‘The culture secretary has called on the public to use trusted news sites in the fight against misinformation such as vaccine conspiracy theories. Naddine Dorries praised the “properly-sourced, robustly-researched” work of journalists as “our first line of defence” against fake news such as Covid-19 “vaccine conspiracies” facilitated by tech giants. In an article backing the industry’s ‘Journalism Matters’ campaign, she said the government’s Online Safety Bill would “force tech companies to clean up their sites” and “prevent social media firms from arbitrarily taking down content from respected news organisations”. The bill, she said, also includes “extremely important protections and exemptions for journalists, so that we can protect their free speech while forcing social media platforms to police their sites properly”.’ Freedom for Establishment journalists, but gags and chains for everyone else. How classically Tory! Imagine the field day assorted media hacks and political opponents will have in the run up to the general election. One by one, they will drag the rotting Conservative skeletons from the closets of Nigel’s growing coterie of Tory turncoats and sinking-ship-jumpers. The fact these political zombies want to join Reform puts a big hole in its claim to be different. The fact that Farage is willing to haul them out of the water of electoral oblivion and have them on board is even worse.  It’s a shame. Because, while we all know what Farage is, the sheer number of council, devolved Assembly and Westminster seats which Reform look set to win over the next four years will provide a high road into the political mainstream for some thousands of new people. Some of them will be unprincipled careerists, in it only for themselves. But others, especially among the cohort of young men, getting involved in politics for the first time, will be genuine patriots. I already know some of them, and they tell me that they are by no means alone among the party’s rising local stars who either subscribe, or are open, to genuinely nationalist ideas. My proposal for the ideological infiltration of the populists is already underway in Reform. Conscious nationalists or not, one of the first tasks of the young blood activists in Reform is to work to block the efforts of Nigel’s recycled Tories to worm their way in as prospective parliamentary candidates in Reform’s most promising seats. They failed the British people before, and they will fail them again. In the deep, long-term sense, this will be true of Reform, since the underlying problems facing this terminally diseased System are not fixable by any mortal effort or hand. But there is a difference between being doomed to fail, but willing and able to do some good on the way down, and being already proven failures and traitors. Influenced by good young men, the populist parties of the West will have the potential to do worthwhile thing. Things which will help to maximise the number of our people who endure, and come through, the coming Convergence of Catastrophes, Civil War and the Great Dying. Things which give them a headstart in the subsequent Great Rebuilding. If they are poisoned, discredited, or captured, by elderly refugees from the discredited parties of liberal treachery and incompetence, they won’t even achieve that. This is a time and a place where Gen Z suspicions of Boomers and Xers need to be let rip and put to good use. Keep the old Tories OUT! Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. |
