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Dear John,

The UK’s number one power-seeking provocateur has yet another scheme to get into the limelight. Nigel Farage, seeing the writing on the wall for the Conservative party he worked so hard to radicalise, is now proposing an unlikely alliance ([link removed]) with Labour. In the event of a Trump victory across the pond, Farage thinks he can be the “bridge” between the American far-right and a new Labour government.

It’s tempting to just dismiss Farage as the opportunist crank he so clearly is. But that would be to ignore the massive influence his movement has had on British politics over the past decade. Farage’s framings of immigration, Brexit, and British identity (unfortunately) continue to shape our political discourse. Like it or not, he’s got a foothold in our political system, and a Conservative defeat likely won’t be enough to see the back of him.

Farage is no bridge-builder. The man who wants to scrap postal voting, who champions racist conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement” and the “Deep State”, who disparages the civil service, and who throws petrol on every single culture war fire from 15-minute cities to flags may get Trump’s blessing, but his destructive instincts mean he will always be more inclined to sew discord than start dialogue, so he’s unlikely to be of any value at all to a new Labour government.

This is merely the latest attempt by Britain’s US-backed far-right to weasel their way into a flawed democratic system, despite the polls indicating their ideas are about to be roundly rejected at the ballot box. It’s an attempt to draw Britain even closer to America’s burgeoning far-right, steering us even further away from fairness and accountability.

Even if Trump wins this year, we should not appoint one of his agents as a trade envoy. We should not enable his transatlantic far-right network to worm its way into another european democracy. We should not put the national interest in the hands of someone like Farage, a mouthpiece for American billionaires who would happily stomp all over British values and ways of life if it meant making a buck or two.

Instead, we should focus on removing the financial loopholes and repairing the broken safeguards that empower Farage’s far-right. We should build a democracy powered by real people instead of dirty money from the American uber-wealthy and the Russian oligarchs. We’ve got the blueprints ([link removed]) …and, with your support, we will build a democracy that works for everyone, before it’s too late.

Warmest regards,

The Open Britain Team
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