Dizzying defections. “Right realignment”. And that is just within the last week or so.

British politics, as we know it, is undergoing a truly seismic shift, one not seen in recent memory. The traditional demarcation line between a clearly defined right and left is not merely blurred. It has effectively been erased altogether.

The Conservatives, under chief traitor Boris Johnson, imposed the largest curtailment of civil liberties the country has ever seen, the destructive effects of which are still being felt today. On his watch, nearly four million migrants were admitted in just three years.

He oversaw the highest net migration figures in British history, with almost a million arrivals, 944,000, in a single year alone, the vast majority from non EU countries.

Some of the chief architects of this monumental failure have now found their way into Reform UK, seemingly embraced with open arms by Nigel Farage. Robert Jenrick, Nadine Dorries and Nadhim Zahawi. All conveniently forgotten and forgiven under a new banner and a different shade of blue.

Jenrick’s stained legacy as immigration minister and champion of the Afghan resettlement scheme is plain for all to see. Despite his dramatic rhetorical shift in recent months, edging toward a more nativist, anti immigration stance, it has always rung hollow when set against his track record in government.

Nadhim Zahawi, the Iraqi born Kurd and former Covid 19 Vaccines Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, once called for an amnesty for all illegal migrants. He was later dismissed by Rishi Sunak after breaching the Ministerial Code by failing to disclose that he was under investigation by HMRC.

Farage himself previously branded Zahawi a man without principles, interested only in “climbing the greasy pole”.

Then there is Nadine Dorries, a staunch Boris Johnson loyalist. A fact that alone should flatten whatever moral ground she may once have stood on.

She resigned from the Commons under Sunak with “immediate effect”, despite taking two months to actually do so, while waiting for a promised peerage in the House of Lords from her ally Johnson.

Dorries had not spoken in Parliament for over a year and had a very public falling out with the then Prime Minister. Flitwick and Shefford town councils in her own constituency urged her to stand down, stating that she had effectively “abandoned the local area”.

Banners reading “Dosser Dorries Out” appeared across the constituency at the time.

Traitors, grifters and dossers. Hardly a winning formula.

This naked opportunism, jumping from a clearly sinking ship in a desperate attempt to keep political careers afloat and rehabilitate damaged reputations, is obvious and frankly insulting.

Do they believe the British public has the collective memory of goldfish?

Only months earlier, Nigel had described Jenrick as a “fraud” and “not to be trusted”, rightly calling out his hypocrisy for protesting outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, despite the fact that it was Jenrick himself who had pushed to open more migrant hotels while in government.

Jenrick, for his part, had previously said he wanted to “send Nigel back to retirement”.

Now we are expected to nod along and accept this political theatre of sudden comradeship. How will party members respond?

For all Reform’s talk of setting itself apart from the baggage of the uniparty, it appears hellbent on absorbing its rejects, traitors and careerists wholesale.

Despite their momentum, impressive polling and significant gains, Reform has increasingly begun to resemble a rehabilitation centre for political reprobates.

A refuge for the leftover flotsam of the establishment and an easy career path for opportunists.

Not only that, but the party is also selecting a growing number of openly foreign candidates, some not even British citizens.

Addy Mo Asaduzzama, a young Bangladeshi student, is just one example the party proudly stands behind. Mr Asaduzzama has indefinite leave to remain, having arrived recently on a student visa.

This is a policy Nigel himself has since pledged to abolish if elected Prime Minister.

The conflict of interest is obvious. Would immigrant councillors willingly support policies that directly affect their own status?

Reform has already dipped slightly in vote share from its 2025 peak. It has fallen by three points according to YouGov and four points according to Find Out Now and Survation.

With the May elections on the horizon, it will be interesting to see how these developments translate at the ballot box.

Tensions are already emerging. Jenrick came under fire at a recent Reform rally in his local constituency of Newark, which he still intends to represent.

He was heckled before he could deliver his maiden speech as a newly defected Reform MP, despite lavishing praise on his new leader.

He declared Reform the “only party” capable of fixing a broken Britain, branding his former party as completely “out of touch”.

There is something deeply ironic about an arsonist complaining about the fire he helped start, now pretending he never held the match himself. Shameful.

Reform may still perform strongly, and more defections are almost certainly to come as politicians from across the spectrum sense the wind at their backs.

But many will draw their own conclusions about what the party now stands for.

As for Nigel Farage, his past temperament and ego, particularly over the deeply embarrassing Rupert Lowe affair, may yet prove a liability.

Keeping figures like Jenrick in line will be no easy task. For all his faults, Jenrick has ambition and a core base of support. His online activity suggests he is further to the right than Farage on issues such as identity, immigration and crime.

For those who fear their country is being taken from them and who remain politically homeless, the question becomes unavoidable.

What option realistically remains?

With Labour and the Conservatives both projected to face political oblivion at the next election, the rest of the establishment offers little comfort.

The Liberal Democrats cling to a brand of exhausted centrism long past its expiry date. The resurgent Greens and Plaid openly embrace radical far leftism.

Rupert Lowe, possibly the only genuinely nativist and patriotic MP in Parliament to have remained consistent throughout, is now hinting at a potential alternative.

Recent voting intention polling suggests a party led by him would perform remarkably well, despite the fact that it does not yet exist.

Reform’s recent actions have sown doubt, particularly with Nigel now openly flirting with the WEF, having previously dismissed it as a “jaunt for globalists”.

Many are crying out for an alternative. Something authentic, patriotic, and willing to stand up for and genuinely represent the British people.