Is Nigel Farage's Time Now?

Jim Chimirie

5 September, 2025

Nigel Farage is saying all the right things.

In Birmingham he roared with conviction: stop the boats, scrap net zero, bring back industry, restore pride. It was the language millions of Britons have longed to hear. It was defiance against a ruling class that despises its own people.

It was, at last, the sound of a leader who understands the rage on the streets. But here is the cold truth: promising is easy. Delivering is another matter.

Farage vows to stop the boats within two weeks of taking office. Every patriot hopes he is right. But no serious student of politics should believe it will be that simple. The problem is not just weak politicians - it is the permanent state.

Britain has been hollowed out by decades of Leftist-Islamist infiltration. The civil service, the courts, the police, the universities, the charities, the quangos - every rung of the system is laced with ideology hostile to the very idea of a sovereign nation. It is not a lack of power in Downing Street. It is the fact that power has been captured elsewhere.

We have already seen how this works. Brexit was passed by the people, then gutted by civil servants and judges who spent years trying to overturn it. The Rwanda deportation scheme was blocked again and again in the courts, with "human rights" lawyers ensuring not a single flight left. Police forces have become political actors: quick to shut down dissenting speech on social media, but slow to act on grooming gangs or Islamist mobs waving the black flag in London. Even the Army has been forced to waste its time on "diversity audits" while recruitment collapses.

This is not incompetence. It is design. The Left long ago worked out that if they could not win on the ballot, they would win through the bureaucracy. And they did.

So even if Reform stormed to victory tomorrow, the new government would be stepping into a machine that resists every turn of the wheel. It would take more than bold speeches. It would take a long, grinding war against the apparatus itself: root and branch reform of the civil service, sackings in the judiciary, defunding of universities that act as indoctrination centres, mass clear-out of NGOs feeding on the taxpayer.

Without that, the promises will rot.

This is not only Britain's fight. France faces the same suffocation. Germany the same drift into self-abnegation. America has the same permanent state - but Donald Trump, unlike his predecessors, is breaking through it, forcing the bureaucracy to bend while he drives his border agenda forward.

Canada and Australia are in the same position as Britain - captured institutions, borders treated as optional, and elites more loyal to global treaties than their own people. Every Western nation is learning the same lesson: elections alone cannot reverse decades of ideological capture.

That does not mean Farage is wrong to speak boldly. He is right to. He is right to name the crisis and give voice to a people betrayed. But the task ahead is greater than a two-week fix.

It is generational. It demands courage not only to defy Brussels or Strasbourg, but to clean out Whitehall and Westminster itself. Without that, even the most patriotic government will be little more than a hostage in its own capital.

So yes - cheer the words. They are a welcome thunderclap in an age of cowardice. But understand the scale of the storm. Britain can be saved, but it will take more than flags and fanfare. It will take the will to break an entrenched elite that has spent half a century remaking the country in its own image.

Farage may be the last chance, as he says. But if he is, he must know: this fight is not weeks long. It is the work of a lifetime.

© Jim Chimirie 2025

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