In further alienating his Yaxley-Lennonist base by calling for the repatriation of Shamima Begum, Nigel Farage is obeying Donald Trump's Senior Director of Counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, who affects a weird accent to insinuate that he had grown up behind the Iron Curtain. Or does every native Londoner who went to school in Ealing and to university in Kensington speak like that? Speaking for Trump, Gorka accepts that Begum should be brought home to stand trial. Therefore, so does Farage. What say Farage's growing number of critics to his right, every one of them a Trumpian?
Elsewhere, Reform UK is looking forward to some success in Scotland and Wales, but in England the recent defectors to it from the Conservative Party are already negotiating their return with as much dignity as possible, which may not be very much. Tory England is unique in the democratic world in regarding support for another political party as worse than treason.
Until the moment when each of them either defected or died, it is inconceivable that the Cambridge Five voted any other way. They would have wanted that party to become a vehicle for public school Marxism and for the residue of pro-Soviet sentiment from the War, and they might have achieved that. It had and has no permanent ideology beyond the desirability of rule by their class, and had there ever been a Soviet satellite state in Britain, then it would have been much as they themselves desired. To bring that about, they did some things. But one only has to say it to know that they never voted any way but Conservative. That would have been un-English. The Reform members who are striking deals with the local Conservative machines from which they have only very recently separated, understand perfectly.
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