Britcrack: The sweeping success of Nigel Farage’s xenophobic Reform UK Party — humiliating both Tories and ruling Labor in nationwide, local, and parliamentary elections — should surprise no one. A decade ago, Farage embarrassed the smug conservative government of David Cameron by unexpectedly driving through the so-called Brexit referendum that forced Britain out of the European Union. His campaign was a masterclass in bogeyman politics that portrayed the country as bureaucratically enslaved to Brussels. Since again taking charge of Reform UK in 2024, he has pressed the same button, this time insisting Britain was “broken,” overrun by Muslim migrants whose religion and customs were suffocating traditional British values. The mollycoddling of refugees set into motion by the Labor party had to end. Mass deportation was needed, and in this he found an unexpected ally in the American president, who also believes aliens are contaminating Britain and Europe — “civilizational erasure” is the going phrase. Suddenly, Farage’s extremist views became mainstream, pushing both Conservatives and Labor into purgatory. That Farage is an Oswald Mosley–like protofascist means nothing to those galvanized by his incessant and persuasive wakeup call. In the very near future, both Tories and Labor may find themselves in the minority, thus ending Britain’s century-old two-party system. Overtaking and filling in for Labor will be the upstart Green Party, a perfect foil for Reform UK. Coming UK governments may witness alliances between Reform UK and the Conservatives on one side of the spectrum and the Greens, Labor, and Liberal Democrats on the other. Meanwhile, Scottish and Welsh nationalist movements are growing in size and scope, suggesting even bigger fractures may lie ahead. All of this triggered by a man, Farage, who hammered home the idea that Britain was a serf and the EU the lord of the manor. Soon, Farage will be a lord in his own right and the UK will join the U.S. as reactionary citadels.