Commentators were so busy fulminating against Trump’s Fifa shenanigans yesterday they mostly missed his intervention yesterday in the big story now roiling British politics.
‘They’re Running the 2024 Anti-Trump Playbook on Nigel Farage,’ the President posted on Truth Social, linking to an article on the National Pulse, an American media site founded by Farage’s old mucker Raheem Kassam.
The point, now being repeated by Reform’s talking heads on TV, is clear. ‘They’ – the SW1 elite – are trying to stop Nigel Farage, just as the Washington establishment mounted a ridiculously elaborate lawfare campaign to try to stop Donald Trump.
It may sound hysterical to suggest that the British deep state is working hand-in-glove with the media to trash the most powerful insurgency in British politics and remove its leader from parliament. But just because you’re paranoid, as Joseph Heller didn’t quite say, doesn’t mean millions of voters won’t agree with you. As we have seen with Trump in America, and Marine Le Pen in France, and countless other troubled democracies, legal and parliamentary forces do work together to try to stymie candidates who threaten to destroy them with voters.
And because cock-up is the more successful brother of conspiracy, their efforts tend to backfire disastrously.
