EXCLUSIVE: Reform's Matt Goodwin told the architect of Project 2025: "It's not enough to win an election - you also need to completely rewire the system." Here's what we found on Reform's plans to import Trumpian autocracy to Britain /1 🧵bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/ref…
In a podcast with Kevin Roberts - the Heritage Foundation president and architect of Project 2025 - Matt Goodwin urged Britain to copy "what has worked in Florida and Texas" Translation: voter suppression laws that made it harder for minorities to vote /2
Goodwin called Farage "an ally of Donald Trump" running "the Trump playbook" and said UK conservatism is "five to seven years behind" America.
His prescription? Import JD Vance's talking points on "woke ideology." /3
That's Trump's Vice President Vance, stooge of Palantir billionaire Peter Thiel, fan of 'Dark Enlightenment' fascist Curtis Yarvin who calls for democracy to be replaced with a techno-monarchy run by an all-powerful corporate executive /4
It gets worse. Goodwin is part of an institutional vehicle for this: the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham.
Its stated mission? To be a "trans-Atlantic hub" connecting UK institutions with the American right. /5
The Centre's "network partners" include:
Heritage Foundation (Project 2025)
Claremont Institute (fake electors plot)
Federalist Society (captured the Supreme Court)
Hillsdale College (Trump's nationalist curriculum)
This is the infrastructure of Trump authoritarianism. /6
Claremont Institute senior fellow John Eastman was the lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election with fake electors. Hillsdale's former fellow Michael Anton - who compared a Clinton presidency to a terrorist attack -now runs State Department policy planning under Trump /7
And Nigel Farage? He spoke at Hillsdale's Constitution Day in September 2025 alongside Heritage figures.
His message: "Everything we value is based on our Judeo-Christian culture and traditions."
This is coordinated and transnational. This is happening NOW /8
Where's the money coming from?
Follow the trail to Budapest.
Goodwin appeared on the Danube Institute's podcast - an Orbán government front that's received MILLIONS from Hungarian state funds. Project 2025 architect Roberts signed a cooperation agreement with them in 2022 /9
Here's the kicker: Goodwin got up to €10,000/mth from Mathias Corvinus Collegium - a Budapest anti-EU propaganda op with €1bn from the Hungarian state. That includes a 10% stake in MOL Group, which refines Russian oil:
Goodwin's salary = downstream from Russian oil profits /10
It's not just Goodwin.
Farage's senior policy advisor James Orr directs the UK arm of the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation.
90%+ of its funding comes from the same Hungarian source.
Orr publicly praised "the Hungarian approach" to Russia's war in Ukraine /11
Let's be clear about what Project 2025 is:
Mass purge of civil servants
Centralised executive power
End to civil rights / gender equality
Domestic police state + mass surveillance apparatus
/12
Within 4 DAYS of Trump's second inauguration, nearly two-thirds of his executive actions mirrored Project 2025 proposals.
And Reform UK wants to import this blueprint to Britain /13
Goodwin praised Heritage for "establishing a counter-elite" to "take back the bureaucracy of the state." He said their vision "is about to go global, including here in Britain." This isn't conspiracy theory. It's their stated strategy. /14
The network is clear:
Trump → Heritage Foundation → Danube Institute → MCC → Goodwin → Reform UK → Your country.
Russian oil money → Hungarian state funds → British politics. This is foreign-funded political influence /15
Reform UK's Matt Goodwin to the architect of Trump's Project 2025: "How can we learn about what Heritage has worked on?" He wants to copy the blueprint dismantling American democracy - and bring it here /16 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/ref…
Reform UK isn't defending British independence. They're importing an authoritarian playbook funded by Russian oil profits, laundered through a pro-Putin Hungarian government, to "rewire" British democracy Trump-style /17
They call themselves patriots defending British sovereignty. They're funded by Hungarian state money from Russian oil. They want to copy an authoritarian blueprint from MAGA. Patriotism? No. That's a hostile takeover /18
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