Kmflett's Blog

Farage continues his pretence that Reform is a party for ordinary people but on 29th May he is due to speak at an event at Arundel Castle in Sussex.

The Financial Times (26th May) reported that event is organised by the 18th Duke of Norfolk Edward Fitzalan-Howard.

He was a crossbencher in the Lords and is not a Reform supporter. Rather than the FT. The Duke said that he was interested in any party that supported the protection of nature. That would appear to rule out Reform. However Farage’s attendance is clearly about making wealthy contacts amongst the British ruling class.

For those with long memories it recalls the discussion raised by the late Tom Nairn and Perry Anderson in New Left Review in the mid-1960s which suggested that Britain had not a full scale bourgeois revolution and the aristocracy retained an important position in the ruling circles of the country.

Whether Farage is attempting to raise money for Reform, which seems to have quite a lot as it is, or for his personal projects (of which Reform is actually one however) is another matter.