The U.K. Deep State is allegedly not shy about using preemptive methods to thwart “by fair means and foul” another Trump-style election victory.
Dominic Cummings, who once was a key advisor to Boris Johnson during the latter’s U.K. premiership, claims that the British political establishment is determined to stop a populist, U.K.-first cohort from winning the next national election.
Cummings “has said he’s personally warned Reform UK leader and Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage of the lengths the British deep state will be willing to go to, to prevent him being able to take power in the country,” Breitbart London reported.
If the election were held today, and assuming polling data is accurate, Reform would win the most seats in parliament, the House of Commons, in a multi-party field that does not require runoffs in any constituency, and potentially making Nigel Farage, a Trump ally, the country’s prime minister.
The next U.K. national election is not, however, scheduled until 2029, although deeply unpopular incumbent PM Keir Starmer, the nominal leader — for now — of the far-left Labor Party, could call for an earlier election under certain circumstances.
During a recent appearance on the Quite right! podcast produced by The Spectator magazine, Cummings said, as alluded to above, that he personally told Farage that he, Farage, needs to assemble a competent team around him to fend off attacks from status-quo government bureaucrats and assorted globalists (which is sometimes referred to generically as the Deep State).
Cummings went on to tell Spectator editor and former politician Michael Gove and assistant editor Madeline Grant the following:
“…If Farage can’t build the talent and can’t build the machine that he needs, then it’s reasonably likely, I think, that he just gets smashed up before the election even happens. And if you think about what the old system will do to stop him getting in, it’s not gonna be politics as usual. And Starmer’s already signaled this in the last couple of weeks when he says ‘I can live with the Tories winning, but I can’t live with Farage winning.’
“The people around Starmer and all through the upper echelons of the Whitehall system are looking at Trump, they’re looking across Europe, and they’re saying to themselves, ‘the lesson is to strike early and to strike hard, and to not let these people in. We should never have let Vote Leave win the referendum on Brexit; that was the beginning of the disaster for us. We can’t make this mistake again. Let’s smash the absolute living shit out of Farage and make sure that he doesn’t win by fair means and foul.’
[“Whitehall” is the U.K. government enclave in central London]
“They’ll leak medical records, they’ll leak tax records, they’ll bug his phone and leak that. They’ll do anything that they need to and, by the way, that’s gonna be happening across Europe in parallel, and they’ll all be telling themselves ‘we’re fighting fascism together.’
“The European Commission has said publicly, and on the record, ‘we will use the tactics that we use for color revolutions in Eastern Europe to stop Western European countries being taken over by parties that we don’t agree with.’ That is the official doctrine of the European Commission, and they will definitely try and do it…”
Farage, by the way, has already been accused of racism as a schoolboy, but that’s probably just a warmup for what might follow.
As played out across Europe, when a populist, pro-border-control party begins to gain traction before an election or at the ballot box itself, the establishment left and right, enabled by the fearmongering legacy media, often get together to metaphorically throw sand in the gears to prevent nationalists from forming a government.
The open-borders globalists have also used the legal system to, e.g., ban National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from again running for president of France, which is similar to the lawfare attempts waged against President Trump and others in the president’s orbit.
That is aside from any Election Day hocus pocus.
Cummings exited the Boris Johnson “conservative” administration some months after a scandal involving alleged minor non-compliance with 2020 COVID restrictions.
In retrospect, the restrictions in general seem arbitrary and performative, and other members of the political class in the U.K., including Johnson himself, were found to have violated them to some extent, evoking a ‘rules for thee, not for me,’ scenario.
In July 2024, the far-left Labor Party in the U.K. defeated the so-called Conservative Party, in a landslide which probably came, at least partially, in the form of a protest vote.
The inept, all-talk-and-no-action Conservatives (a.k.a. the Tories) threw away their majority after 14 years in control of the government by operating like U.S. RINOs on steroids.
Perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, Gove did not seek reelection.
Among other negative ‘accomplishments,’ the Tories only partially implemented Brexit and did practically nothing about mass migration, government spending, or the cost of living.
During the Gove/Grant interview, Cummings pronounced the Tories “dead…not relevant…just finished.”
Starmer reportedly plans to reverse some aspects of Brexit, bringing the country back under the thumb of the European Union, which seems like it is circumventing democracy, which the left always claims it wants to protect.
British voters approved a referendum on June 23, 2016, to ‘exit’ the EU, and reclaim the country’s sovereignty, hence the Brexit terminology.
Once an elected member of the EU parliament, Nigel Farage — who is probably one of the best orators in the world — championed Brexit as the-then leader of the party known as UKIP.
The Reform Party (which, like other start-up political groups, has experienced growing pains) currently holds only a handful of seats in the national parliament, the House of Commons, but obviously that could change.
In a related development, Starmer et. al intend to cancel some local elections to short-circuit Reform’s momentum, political analyst Matt Goodwin wrote on Substack today.:
Original article“Keir Starmer’s Labor government has started 2026 in a truly awful state. In the polls, it has just slumped to a truly abysmal approval rate of 11% — a record low. It has fallen to third place, behind Reform and even the Tories. And only 6% of British people think it ‘very likely’ Keir Starmer will still be prime minister at the end of the year. This is a governing party, in other words, that is collapsing in real time. Which helps to explain what else we have just learned: Starmer’s Labor government is now preparing to postpone democracy in areas where Reform look set to surge…According to an investigation by The Telegraph, Labor has already decided to delay elections this May in five areas that are forecast to swing to Reform, and is also considering doing so in a further seventeen areas…”
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