So here we have it. Had Nigel Farage been at the helm in November 1918, there would have been no armistice. Instead, he would have sent the British Army marching all the way to Berlin, crushing the German Army in, maybe, a month and a half. Home by Christmas. He would have gladly sacrificed some 100,000 of his countrymen (and others from around the globe), as his supreme vision of future events would by definition have proven him right. A small price to pay to the betterment of all mankind.
A man with a plan.
Nigel, of course, actually doesn’t live in days long gone. Here’s a Nigel who is making plans himself, contrary to his namesake from the 1980’s song, for whom plans were made by others. Nigel is a politician, and one with a mission at that. Once more, Britain is under threat from a continental power. And, finally, the evil genius behind it has been identified. For the third time in 100 years Germany is bidding for continental power.
Now is the time to again thwart this drive for dominance by the Huns. Dark forces are at work in Berlin. In fact, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 75 years after the start of World War II and 100 years after the start of World War I, Prussia is back with a vengeance. Fortunately, the reborn Teutonic Empire seems without allies. Discontent appears rampant across Europe.
This provides Nigel with a rallying cause. While not having a clue as how to deal with Britain’s enormous internal problems, fortunately there is yet again an imminent threat from a long standing adversary. And again there are allies to be had. Potential allies with which the UK has got nothing in common, except for fighting a common enemy, so truly the hallmark of British diplomacy.
To Nigel Farage, utter destruction of the Huns cannot come at too high a price. We may still be thankful for the Anglo-Japanese alliance, rendering swathes of China and vast stretches of the Pacific to the Japanese Empire. Or for the alliance with the Russian Empire, a true boost to democracy and to the betterment of the peoples in Eastern Europe. Or for the utter fragmentation of the Middle-East and, last but not least, the building of all those nation states in Europe, so promising at first and eventually dismally frustrated by that unholy experiment known as the European Union.
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr. Farage?
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