Shortly before sweeping to power, brutal dictator, Benito Mussolini, warned the people in a prophetic speech that:

"I will declare a state of emergency on day 1 as Prime Minister.

Parliament will sit 24 hours a day until we pass the necessary legislation to deliver on our pledges.

If the House of Lords try to stop us, I’ll hold a referendum and sweep them away if I have to.

If my ministers don't deliver, I will sack them.

Civil servants who go against the will of the people will be removed.

I will not tolerate any element of resistance from the system. The establishment parties frankly don't have the balls to challenge it - but I do."

Pretty chilling stuff, eh? An explicit threat to dismantle democracy and function as an all-powerful, out-and-out dictator. The Italian people must have been terrified...

... Except this isn't a statement from Benito Mussolini in the 1920s, it's a statement from Nigel Farage in the 2020s. In fact, Farage said it last Monday.

This was in the same week that two major pieces of news dominated the headlines - firstly, that AI whistleblowers had come forward, in a suspiciously coordinated and high-profile manner, to warn us that AI might go rogue, Terminator-style, and kill us all, and secondly that, at least for now, the government won't, as the UK's Assisted Dying bill was defeated in parliament. The bill was voted down by 276 votes to 260 - an extremely narrow margin of just 16, which did not include Nigel Farage or Reform deputy, Richard Tice, as they declined to cast a vote.

When the bill went through parliament for the first time in 2024, Nigel Farage voted against it, whilst Tice voted for.

So what changed? Why do they suddenly now not have a view on a matter of such colossal, literal life or death, importance?

By sheer coincidence, Reform have this week become the recipients of a staggering donation of £72 million, the largest donation ever seen in British politics, from the two crypto-billionaires, Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo.

Harborne, an alumni of Westminster school and Cambridge University, had, prior to this most recent donation, given Reform more than £22 million. The Guardian reported in April 2026 that "August’s £9m was the largest single amount ever given by a living donor. Another £3m followed in November".

Asked about the situation in December 2025, Farage said, “Does he want anything from me? No. Absolutely nothing in return at all. He just happens to think that we’ve not made the most of Brexit, that we’re not getting into the 21st-century technologies.”

Farage reiterated the general idea that Harborne is simply a generous philanthropist who cares for his country (even though he chooses not to live in it and is resident in Thailand), and that there are no strings attached to his whopping contribution, in an opinion piece for the Daily Mail published yesterday.

Farage wrote:

"Many voters will ask why their money arrived in one tranche rather than in stages. The answer to that question is simple and, frankly, alarming. The fact is that both men were deeply fearful that this Labour government would do whatever it could to subvert the democratic process.

We have already endured the government's attempted cancellation of elections in May this year that would have deprived five million people of the chance to vote. It was only Reform UK's legal action that prevented this outrage from coming to pass.

We are also witnessing the extension of the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds via legislative measures currently making their way through Parliament. This cynical moving of the goalposts plays directly to Labour's advantage.

On top of that, it was seriously suggested until recently by this Labour government that donations from private individuals to political parties would be capped – although trade unions would be able to carry on bankrolling the Labour Party with impunity. This is the sort of law people would expect to find in a dictatorship.

It was with these concerns in mind that Christopher Harborne, Ben Delo and I concluded the process which they would follow. Both had been prepared to give Reform UK £1 million a month until August 2029, the latest date that the next general election must be held. In the end, they decided that they trusted us sufficiently to hand over the entire sum at once."

Later in the article, Farage adds:

"It must also be said that neither Christopher Harborne, nor Ben Delo, nor any other donor to Reform UK will receive a knighthood or a peerage in return for their donations. The cash-for-peerages scandals that have disgraced successive governments must be consigned to the dustbin of history. This money is an investment in democratic renewal, pure and simple."

I believe him, insofar that I believe that neither Harborne or Delo will become peers or knights of the realm, because that is not a goal either of them are interested in pursuing.

The question is, what goals are they interested in pursuing?

Delo, who, like Harborne is an Oxbridge alumni (he graduated from Oxford with a double first in 2005), made his fortune through pioneering “perpetual futures” for cryptocurrency, a type of contract that allows traders to bet on assets such as Bitcoin with high leverage.

He was convicted in the US in 2022 for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls at his cryptocurrency business, BitMEX. He was sentenced to 30 months of probation and given a $10 million fine: however, he was subsequently pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Trump has issued similar such pardons to several high-profile crypto entrepreneurs.

Delo's ties to the Trump administration further emphasise Reform's own powerful links to the American political right, which we have explored before at this site and which we will return to again later.

More recently, Ben Delo has established in the UK an entity known as 'The Sanctuary'. Described by The Guardian as "a political base in the heart of Westminster used by “anti-woke” and rightwing activists", The Sanctuary is further defined by the newspaper as "providing funding, networking opportunities and help in kind via a suite of rooms in a building overlooking Westminster Abbey... Those given access can use the facility free of charge for events, office space and podcasting."

Restore's Rupert Lowe, and the Triggernometry podcast, are amongst those known to have used the facilities.

At the same location, in September 2022, Delo hosted his friend, the Canadian academic and founder of ARC, Jordan Peterson, where Delo said the pair "camped out in the office the night before the late queen’s funeral for a bird’s-eye view of the cortege".

In short, Delo is a darling of the so-called "alt right", the assembly of various billionaires and high society bigwigs, who cosplay at being "anti-establishment" by positioning themselves as being opposed to various leftwing orthodoxies, and defenders of free speech.

In reality, anybody who receives an official pardon from a sitting US President (Delo has the pardon framed, hanging in pride of place on his office wall) is the embodiment of the establishment, as Delo, Farage, and their various ultra-wealthy and well-connected associates all, of course, are.

To further punctuate his establishment credentials, Delo has made clear his concerns about "climate change", stating in 2019 that:

"The prospect of extreme climate change is real. Looking forward, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and synthetic biology will pose new and complex challenges."

Delo said this when he signed the Giving Pledge, an initiative created by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

Other Reform mega-donor, Christopher Harborne, shares these concerns, writing in 2024 that he believes climate change presents “a serious threat to the survival of a significant percentage of the human population.”

What do climate change alarmists claim is the main cause and driver of this change?

Human activity.

What is therefore the one initiative climate change believers are most invested in?

Reducing the global population.

Therefore, it really is quite the coincidence that Farage - who previously voted against the UK's proposed Assisted Dying legislation - abstained from casting a vote on the matter in the same week he received two mammoth donations from ardent 'climate change' activists.

I said earlier that I believe Farage when he states Harborne and Delo will not be rewarded with knighthoods or peerages for their gifts, because I do not believe these baubles hold any interest for these already immensely powerful and influential men.

I believe they are interested in pursuing far more sinister goals, which relate to both reducing the global population and managing the remaining populace through intensive and invasive AI.

It is of considerable note that, in 2023, Ben Delo was in the front row of a talk given at Oxford University by Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir Technologies. Delo had also contributed funding to Thiel's lecture series.

Thiel's Palantir company is described as follows: 

"Originally funded by the CIA, Palantir’s core business has been providing big data and surveillance support to military, security, intelligence and police agencies. Its clients include the US military, the Israeli Defence Forces, the US National Security Agency (NSA), the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, and various US police forces...

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Palantir had no track record in healthcare. But the NHS, with its global reputation, taxpayer funding, and unusually comprehensive datasets, was a particularly lucrative target. When Covid struck, so did Palantir."

The website Keep Our NHS Public reports:

"The company first partnered with the Government and NHS England during the Covid-19 pandemic, under the emergency coronavirus legislation providing software to help manage resources like ICU beds and PPE. This temporary “Covid-19 Data Store” raised early concerns about patient privacy and data handling. The initial contract was for £1, a great investment for Palantir to get its foot in the door of the NHS and this was extended at a cost of £23 million.

In November 2023, Palantir was awarded a £330 million contract to run the NHS’s new Federated Data Platform (FDP), aimed at linking data across hospitals and care systems in England to improve planning and reduce waiting times. The platform is being rolled out nationally, meaning Palantir has access to patient data all over the country.

The NHS Palantir contract raises very serious concerns about threats to data safety. It is also concerning that such an unsavoury company as Palantir has access to patient data."

Palantir's possession of NHS patient data may be regarded as a particular concern in the wake of the Lindsay Clancy case that has so dominated the headlines in recent weeks.

Some analysts have speculated that one reason for the Clancy operation (and it is, in the opinion of this author and several others, a psychological operation staged by the usual agencies) is to prompt an invasive AI surveillance programme of prospective maternal psychological health.

Referencing the researcher Morgan Charles, and sharing an instructive infogram, an X user summarised:

"Problem- Post partum depression

Reaction - public freak out

Solution- AI module that tracks you from conception forward to monitor your mood with the possibility of taking your children."

Many women in the UK have visited their GPs reporting symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other common psychological problems. In fact, according to the government's Women's Health – Let's talk about it survey, well over a third of all women (39%) have identified mental health as a key topic they want to discuss or seek help for with healthcare professionals.

It is quite evident to observe, in the wake of the Lindsay Clancy case, how seeking such help could be used against these women, in the eventuality of AI tracking systems used to evaluate psychological stability and propensity to postpartum depression, in pregnant women. Such a system could be feasibly used to remove some children from their mothers at birth, if a mother had been rated by AI profiling as sufficiently high-risk. We don't want any more "Lindsay Clancys" - and all the inevitable copycats - after all.

Further, in the case of the increasing number of women who cannot conceive naturally, similar such profiling could be conducted as part of an assessment for suitability for IVF, and used to disqualify large numbers of women with a history of mental health issues.

This approach would help to satisfy two major ruling class goals: one, reducing the population, and two, transferring the raising of children from parents to the state - a major agenda item as depicted in ruling class blueprint, Brave New World.

To return to the title of this essay, the idea of AI going rogue and exterminating us all is just baseless scaremongering and the stuff of science fiction. It is merely decoy fear porn to distract us from the real threat - the people and governments behind AI, and what they might use it to do.

A Reform government bankrolled by two elite billionaires openly committed to tackling "climate change" will be heavily invested in reducing the global population. The fact that Nigel Farage abstained from casting a vote in this week's Assisted Dying debate in the same week he received enormous donations from these men, having previously voted against it, strongly suggests that an amended version of the bill could be resubmitted under a Reform parliament, and that - now knowing who the objectors are - strategists could work to weed them out at the next General Election.

Meanwhile, powerful AI systems, presided over by Peter Thiel and his friends like Ben Delo, with his powerful links to the American political elite, could be used in extraordinarily dystopian ways, to monitor who is permitted to keep their own children - or even conceive them at all.

Nigel Farage has already warned that he could dispense with normal democratic process, were he to become Prime Minister (and in the wake of his recent huge donations, it's even more likely that he will inhabit this role), whilst his "friend" Peter Thiel is on record as stating that "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible".

Notably, Peter Thiel, who is gay, acquired his own children via surrogacy, so has already demonstrated he is deeply personally comfortable with removing children from their mothers at birth and raising them in her absence.

Thiel is also heavily invested in eugenics, and was an early funder of 'Orchid', the San Francisco based fertility company committed to producing "super-babies" by screening embryos for a host of genetic weaknesses.

Noor Siddiqui, founder of Orchid, echoed a long established elite goal to separate sex from reproduction when she stated:

"Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies".

If we were to enter a future (as depicted in the eerily prophetic film, Demolition Man) where sex is entirely divorced from conception, and babies are created only in labs; where "undesirable" embryos are identified and discarded, we would create a society where 'perfection' in terms of physical health was the expected norm and any form of disability or difference screened out prior to birth.

In such a society, what would happen to the millions of people already in existence who have physical disabilities and differences, such as Down's syndrome and cystic fibrosis, or conditions said to have a genetic link, like cancer, Alzheimer's, and even obesity?

In such a society, anybody with a disability or impairment would be, at best, subject to extreme bigotry and discrimination, and, at worst, killed off. That is why the reintroduction of the Assisted Dying bill under a Reform government, with its links to eugenic billionaires heavily invested in depopulation, sterile sex, and "designer babies", is quite so sinister.

As always, however, the ruling classes don't invest so much money propagandising us to accept these outcomes because they are inevitable, but precisely because they are not. The power always resides with the people, the ruling classes always require our consent, and we all possess the ability to say "no". If enough of us do, their tedious little games are over for good.

Cheers to that, Nige - the man who, famed for his bloke down the pub, pint swilling image, actually, doesn't even like beer.

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