The following headings are actually from the definition of What is fascism. All of them fit Reform, and I've given you a few examples of how.
Racism and xenophobia.
Nationalism and national superiority.
-Using manufactured scare stories about race and religion to seed hatred and nostalgic fantasies about an imaginary previous better time to encourage both the race hate and the superiority complex, as well as constant waving of patriotic symbols.
Identifying scapegoats as a unifying cause.
Disdain for human rights.
-Constant attacks on the principles of human rights and the structures, eg courts, conventions, treaties, that maintain them. Attacks on the justice system (lefty human rights lawyers etc) in an attempt to undermine both public faith in the justice system and actual compliance with the system.
Undermining democracy
- in the UK, repeatedly questioning election results that are, of course found to be completely legitimate. In 2015 Farage actually said the democratic process was 'dead ' due to ' ethnic changes in the way people are voting. ' combining at least two of my points.
Emphasising strength.L
-Law and order, strict if not cruel punishment. Military power.
Disdain for intellectuals and the arts.
Populism :appealing to ' ordinary people ' against a 'corrupt elite' using manufactured conspiracies to make the argument.
Also 1 in 10 Reform candidates were facook friends with a former organiser of the BNP and founder of fascist organisation New British union, a man whose online photos show him dressed as a Nazi. There is a direct line from the 1930s British Fascist Party to Reform via the National Front and BNP, which makes a mockery of all that ww2 patriotism and Spitfire stuff they're so keen on.