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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is buckling under the weight of its own compromises, too weak to slay the globalist beast.
Ben Habib, a Brexit firebrand, has launched Advance UK to take the fight to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and European Union, vowing to crush their stranglehold on Britain’s soul.
“There isn’t a single entity really representing the values that Advance UK represents,” Habib told me in a recent interview, pointing to Farage’s populist façade. “Farage is an appeaser. He’ll do what’s required to gain office, not to save the United Kingdom.”
Advance UK, launched June 30, 2025, is Habib’s war machine against the globalist elite. A former Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK deputy, he split from Farage in November 2024, citing “fundamental differences” over Brexit and immigration, fueled by the suspension of Reform MP Rupert Lowe—an “injustice” Habib couldn’t stomach.
His new party is gunning for 30,000 members at £10 each, with Habib pledging £100,000 of his own fortune to ignite the rebellion.
Habib slams Farage as a relic, a Thatcherite liberal stuck in the 1980s, blind to the real war: nation-states versus the WEF and EU’s supranational tyranny.
“The big evil entity in the room is the European Union,” he said, accusing it of strangling democracy alongside the WEF. Advance UK’s four pillars—nation-state, freedom of speech, democracy, and equality under the law—are a battle cry to dismantle these globalist overlords.
“If you remove the democracies of nation-states, you effectively remove the nation-state,” he warned, linking their agenda to suppressed speech and rigged justice.
Farage’s sins, Habib charges, are legion: dismissing concerns about demographic change, refusing mass deportation of illegal migrants, and tolerating “barbaric” practices like halal slaughter.
“He’s undermining the thesis of the nation-state,” Habib said, branding Reform UK a “spectacular failure” in waiting.
Advance UK’s answer is a return to Britain’s pre-1997 constitutional roots, before Tony Blair’s laws opened the floodgates to globalist erosion. Its unique “college” of 100 independent members will keep the party pure, unswayed by the elite’s bribes or cancel culture’s threats.
The stakes are global. Habib looks to Trump’s America, hoping a MAGA triumph will pave the way for Britain to reject the WEF’s technocratic schemes—digital currencies, net zero, and beyond.
Habib envisions populism crossing the Atlantic: “If Trump can succeed, it’ll be easier for us,” he told me.
For Americans fighting their own globalist foes, Advance UK’s defiance is a mirror: a call to reject weak leaders and reclaim sovereignty.
