UK's Nigel Farage's social media adviser says Britain should not have fought against Nazis in WW2

An adviser used by the UK’s Reform Party leader, Nigel Farage , along with other politicians from the party to boost their social media popularity, has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral during the Second World War instead of fighting against Nazi Germany.

Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account and went on to help Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also noted that the United Kingdom should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. In a post on his blog about the UK’s foreign policy, Anderton suggested that the UK could “regain” former colonies such as Australia, Canada and South Africa.

He went on to state that the UK should copy the policy of mass incarceration carried out by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, which has been widely condemned as a violation of human rights all around the world.

Why it matters

It is pertinent to note that Anderson has never been employed by the Reform Party. However, the 23-year-old established Farage on TikTok, where he now has 1.3 million followers, before working closely on Campbell’s election campaign. After his victory, Anderson continues to remain a central part of Campbell’s circle.

According to The Guardian, the newly-elected mayor is known to have made efforts to get him on his roster of staff, which have been thwarted because he cannot have political appointees. In his latest personal blog titled Britain Needs Change, Anderson included an entry from last year about what he called “a self-interested British foreign policy”.

He insisted that the only conflict of the last century that was in the UK’s interest was the Falklands War. “Trillions of pounds of British taxes have been spent in foreign lands in the pursuit of ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’ and ‘doing what is right’,” the post said. “More than a million British lives have been lost since WW1 in wars and battles that have never once been fought by British men, on this island," it added.

‘UK should not have fought in WW2’: Anderson

In the post, Anderson argued that both world wars ensured that the UK was no longer a great power in the international arena. “We impoverished ourselves for decades; we didn’t finish paying the loans off to America until 2006. Our economy stagnated, we lost an empire, and we are pushed around by America. And Germany, a country we beat, has been richer than us since the 1970s," he wrote.

“Alternative history is interesting; if Britain had not fought in WW1 and WW2, it would not have had to rely on America for economic support, and it would have had the independence to act accordingly. Britain could have developed India, Cyprus, Fiji, Malta, Saint Lucia, Seychelles, the Bahamas, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand. In the coming meritocracy, perhaps Britain could regain some of these nations.”

In the same post, he also opposed London providing support for Ukraine after Russia’s invasion: “We are sending billions of pounds (that we cannot afford) to prop up a country that we have no allegiance to. Russia is not our enemy; they have not attacked Britain.”

Anderson’s radical rant also included a call for a shake-up of the Foreign Office so that all decisions are made purely based on whether or not they benefit Britain: “Instead, what we have are people who should be working for the UN or a charity rather than working in the British Foreign Office.” When asked about the matter, Reform UK told The Guardian that Anderson is neither employed by the party nor the mayor.