The IRA couldn’t destroy Britain — is ‘terminal wokeness’ about to finish the job?

The Spanish Armada couldn’t do it. Nor the Luftwaffe. Nor the Irish Republican Army. But one thing can destroy the United Kingdom once and for all: terminal wokeness. And only one man can stop it, Nigel Farage, who just won reelection to Parliament and remains Britain’s only hope of survival.Britain’s economic, political, and cultural rot has been metastasizing for years. Socialism, open borders, major political parties in disarray, and a parade of second-rate prime ministers, seven in the last decade, have left the country with spiraling crime rates, two-tier race-based policing, an economy in tatters, rape gangs, unfettered illegal immigration, a military going broke, old age pensioners who can’t afford to heat their homes, and, as the Sex Pistols sang in the equally bleak 1970s, no future.An author of Brexit and, for years, a member of the European Parliament, Farage is the only politician capable of, or even apparently interested in, stemming Britain’s self-inflicted decline. That’s why the U.K.’s two major political parties, Conservative and Labour, along with a complicit left-wing news media, are doing everything they can to destroy him. So who is he and why are his opponents running scared?You can shorthand Farage as the British version of President Donald Trump, but that would also be shortchanging him. He stands for ending illegal immigration, free enterprise, small government, scaling back net-zero environmental economic insanity, ending illegal immigration, tax cuts for lower earners, and ending illegal immigration. And did I remember to mention illegal immigration?Economics to one side, ending the onslaught of costly illegal immigrants remains the issue most closely connected with Farage. His enemies paint him as a nativist and a bigot, hoping that Britain’s suicidal empathy, in Gad Saad’s striking term, will obliterate Farage and his Reform Party.The Tories and the Labourites are both in thrall to the radical elements in their parties, which means that they are culturally out of step with average citizens, who are sick and tired of the nation catering to the cost and criminality of illegal immigrants instead of caring for its poorest and weakest.Farage’s approach comes as balm to British voters who feel betrayed and embarrassed by their dysfunctional national politics. Case in point: A U.K. citizen was recently stabbed to death by an illegal immigrant, and yet the police put handcuffs on the dying victim while the murderer went free. Events like these rightly disgust the British, which is why the nation is poised to make Farage prime minister in the next general election, no more than three years hence.How undemocratic is the U.K. these days? Consider that the newest occupant of 10 Downing Street, former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, won his seat in Parliament this summer with less than 25,000 votes and was promptly installed as prime minister, replacing the well-meaning but politically inept Keir Starmer. No one was allowed to run against Burnham — shades of Kamala Harris. His not-quite-14,000-vote plurality made Burnham the leader of a nation of 70 million. He was essentially chosen by a miniscule 0.05% of registered U.K. voters. Where’s the democracy in that?Burnham intends to run the U.K. on the same woke terms as his multitudinous predecessors, which means that it’s only a matter of time before the circular firing squad that is Britain’s Labour Party scuppers him, too, which means Farage’s time is almost here. He has the Trump-like, magical ability to appeal to regular joes, but without much of the Trumpian baggage. He wears his well-spoken everyman identity lightly, still enjoying a pint, a smoke, and a good time.Like Trump, Farage grew up in upper-middle-class comfort. He became a trader in London’s financial world instead of going to college. He became a member of the European Parliament, disgusted with the continent’s swooning over socialism, radical environmentalism, open borders, and all the mayhem those stances have caused.Hence his championing of Brexit, which opponents deride as anti-immigration bigotry. The truth is more nuanced. It’s actually about the U.K. declaring economic independence from its Eurosclerotic neighbors and managing its economy and borders as it sees fit, instead of taking orders from unelected Eurocrats in Strasbourg and Brussels.Farage’s Reform Party is poised to run away with the next general election. Woke outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian point to polls that show Reform losing its sway, but don’t believe the bias. Farage terrifies the British Left, and the little that’s left of the Conservative Party, too, because he speaks for the electorate in ways that the two major parties can’t or won’t.IRAN CROWN PRINCE’S PHANTOM ARMY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD DEFECTORS EXPOSEDHe’s under fire for having accepted a multimillion-dollar gift from a supporter. He says he needn’t have declared it, and his opponents say otherwise. That’s why he resigned his seat in Parliament and regained it with a resounding majority over a clown candidate, “Count Binface,” last week. The financial gift is just so much more sand in the gears from those who would silence Farage and maintain the status quo.As the expression says, “There will always be an England.” Yet unless and until Farage takes over, don’t be so sure.Michael Levin is a two-time New York Times bestselling author.