Londoner’s Diary
Earlier this week we reported on the social media whizz running Nigel Farage’s viral TikTok, 23-year-old Jack Anderton. He has been working with the Reform UK leader for months and is described by the party as a “contractor”. But Anderton has other interests, including a taste for speculative fiction.
On his now dormant blog Inflamer Media, we stumbled across an eccentric piece of creative writing titled Britain 2050: Rogue Nation in which Anderton imagines “an alternative British future”. In it, the UK is taken over by “progressive revolutionaries” who “convened special courts to prosecute and jail enemies of Britain”.
In this imagined future, “Britain is entirely run by a group of 25 powerful revolutionaries in a single building in London”, “all visas previously issued were re-evaluated which resulted in mass visa revocations and deportations after decades of high mass migration numbers” and “the death penalty is also brought back into use”.
The short story goes on: “The media is brought to heel by regulation similar to that used in Singapore which discourages subversion and restricts the power of journalists, historic outlets such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times are banned.”
According to this latter-day George Orwell, “the aristocracy is dismantled” and “95 per cent of universities are abolished”.
We asked Anderton about the blog post. “It is evident to anyone reading this short story published in 2022 that it’s a fictitious piece of work,” he said, “To insinuate that this piece of fiction is an opinion piece would be a total misrepresentation and distraction from the serious current issues facing our country.”
Reform UK did not respond to a request for comment.
