‘Project 2029’: Farage’s Trumpian vision for a Reform-ruled Britain revealed

Nigel Farage has thrown his lot in with a shadowy Trump-allied benefactor linked to the hyper-conservative Project 2025 vision. The outcome will be ‘Project 2029’, a nightmarish plan for an authoritarian UK with Farage at the helm.

Byline Times says the story starts with Farage’s time at a US event in March 2025. At a glitzy dinner in Florida, the Reform UK leader gave a speech. While there, he even got a photo with a famous January 6 rioter named Adam Johnson.

The outlet traced Farage’s £25k speaker fee for the Florida shindig back to a shadowy ‘media’ firm: Imperial Independent Media LLC. Then they traced the firm back to Zachary Freeman, hard-right US lobbyist-at-large.

Byline said Freeman:

Is a pro-Trump political lobbyist embedded in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 ecosystem – the US conservative plan to dismantle climate policy, rights for women and ethnic minorities, and democratic safeguards.

He also has ties to evangelical groups in the US with a history of anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion activism – and appears to be working actively with Farage to bring this Project 2025-style ideology to Britain.

Farage’s Project 2025 UK

Project 2025 is a far-right vision for America, parts of which Trump is implementing. If you want to be driven to madness you can read the entire chittering 900-page Cthulhu-esque plan here. It’s written in a long-dead language on the flayed skin of children.

Okay, that last bit is not true. But probably don’t read it at night or you might accidentally summon a demonic nun or something.

Suffice to say, Project 2025-inspired wars on immigration, the left and equality laws in the military are well underway. There’s little doubt Farage would try to emulate these in the UK.

Indeed, Byline believes Farage already has similar plans for the UK. Freeman, to put it simply, is involved in everything bad from anti-abortion activism to anti-LGBT propaganda and more. And he has been busy building links with right-wing parties from Iceland to Ireland and beyond.

Plus, Reform UK figures have openly expressed their liking for Project 2025:

No less than a month after Farage’s summer meeting with Zachary Freeman and Dave Brat of Liberty University, the Cambridge theologian James Orr – who heads up the Reform think-tank Centre for a Better Britain (CBB) – openly expressed his admiration for Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Amol Raja.

The increasing synergy between these fascist-adjacent worldviews should concern us all, Byline said:

The trail from Florida to Westminster exposes more than a shared ideology – it reveals a trans-Atlantic lobbying operation connecting Project 2025 to senior figures on Britain’s populist right.

A Farage government or Reform UK-led coalition is likely to emulate MAGA and Project 2025, whether or not their vision ends up being named ‘Project 2029.’ These are times of intense reaction.

To counter this far-right politics we must confront fascism for what it is. Not just a kind of angry conservatism or bludgeoning nationalism — something deeper and more seductive, something linked to how we organise our economies and societies.

Because, as the Italian-American thinker Alberto Toscano says:

whoever is not willing to talk about anti-capitalism should also keep quiet about anti-fascism.

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