The rose of reform is terrifying. The county I love is in the process of turning into a very nasty divided place. Influenced by such biased reporting like the Mail and GB News.
Read this article and worry.
Meanwhile. Written by someone called Claudia Karl:
🇩🇪 Speaking as a German.
I grew up in a country where every history lesson, every memorial, every awkward family dinner eventually circles back to the same uncomfortable question: how did ordinary, decent people let it happen? How did a respectable European democracy slide, in barely a decade, into something that ended with six million Jewish lives extinguished, millions of others murdered alongside them, and a continent in ruins?
The answers are never simple. But the rhetoric — the rhetoric was never subtle. And it is the rhetoric I want to talk about, because I have heard this song before. 🚩
A certain Austrian gentleman (you know the one) and his party told their country a very specific story. Listen now to what is coming out of Reform UK and Nigel Farage. Not the policies. Not the personalities. Just the language.
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- "The country is broken. The country has lost itself."
Hitler, in his first radio address as Chancellor on 1 February 1933, told Germans they had been blinded by promises, had forgotten the highest values of their past, and — his exact words — that "the misery of our people is terrible". (Source: Facing History archive, Hitler's first radio address) Facing History
Nigel Farage on Twitter, December 2022: "Britain is broken." In Blackpool, June 2024, he expanded: nothing works any more, the country is in cultural decline, "we've begun to forget who we are". (Source: ITN/Reuters reporting of Farage's Blackpool speech) Xonenewspage
Same key. Different decade.
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- "We are being invaded by foreigners."
Hitler, addressing the Reichstag in January 1939, declared "Germany to the Germans" and said the nation must prevent the settlement on its soil of a strange people. (Source: Yad Vashem, transcript of Hitler's Reichstag speech, 30 January 1939) Yad Vashem
Reform UK, August 2025, Oxford Airport: Farage said Britain was undergoing "an invasion" and described asylum seekers as a national security threat. April 2026, Reform's own home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf: a Reform government will "reverse the invasion of Britain". (Source: World Socialist Web Site reporting Farage's Oxford Airport speech; GB News on Reform's deportation plan) World Socialist Web SiteGB News
Same key. Different decade.
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- "The establishment has betrayed you."
Hitler, at his 1924 trial, called the surrender of 1918 "a stab in the back of the German nation" — Germany, he said, had not really lost; the army had been betrayed by Jews, leftists and the Weimar elites. This single myth, repeated and repeated, did more than perhaps any other to bring him to power. (Source: Alpha History, transcript of Hitler's 1924 trial speech) Alpha History
Farage, August 2025, on the grooming gangs scandal: "The establishment has failed". The drumbeat is constant: ordinary Britons have been sold out by Westminster, by the courts, by the police, by an entire metropolitan class. (Source: Wikipedia, "Political positions of Nigel Farage") Wikipedia
Same key. Different decade.
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- "The country must awaken. We are taking it back."
Hitler at the Berlin Sportspalast, addressing the SA and SS: "Germany has now awakened". The nation, he told them, was the master of its own destiny again. (Source: USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia film archive) Holocaust Encyclopedia
Farage at the Reform conference, 2024 — his line which has since been painted across every Reform rally and bus: "Britain is broken... Britain needs reform". Take our country back. (Source: The Spectator's report on Farage's Reform conference speech) spectator
Same key. Different decade.
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I am not saying these men are the same. I am not saying Reform UK is the NSDAP. I am saying — and I cannot be quiet about this, because my country knows what comes next — the speeches are written in the same key.
And we know how that key ends.
🇩🇪 Germans know it in our bones. We have spent eighty years apologising. Every schoolchild visits a camp. Every family, sooner or later, has the conversation. Every public building has a plaque. There is no statute of limitations on what our grandparents allowed, and there will not be one in eighty years' time either.
So I have to ask, neighbour to neighbour:
Have we really learned nothing? 😞
Do British voters truly want to spend the next eighty years apologising the way Germany has had to? Because that is the road. It always starts politely. It starts with "just asking questions" and "concerns about immigration" and a respectable suit and a friendly smile. It never announces itself with jackboots. By the time it does, it is too late.
It is much, much easier to say no to this rhetoric now — while it still wears the suit and the smile — than to spend a lifetime explaining it to your grandchildren. 🇩🇪🇬🇧