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Labour has been feverishly putting the “con” into the conference season. For brazen dishonesty, epic hypocrisy. and shameless deceit, it would be hard to beat the party’s gathering in Liverpool this week. As the ugly event revealed, Labour has become so unhinged at the advance of Nigel Farage’s Reform movement that it has lost its grasp of reality and decency.

What could be more cynical or absurd than the party’s apparent conversion to the cause of British patriotism? In the conference centre, activists dementedly waved their flags like members of a brainwashed cult, but they belong to the same party that has waged a long war against Britain’s nationhood.

It was Tony Blair’s government that opened the floodgates to mass immigration, turned multi-cultural diversity into the ruling creed of the British state, and imposed the twisted human rights regime which has made it impossible to uphold the integrity of our borders or our justice system.

Due to Labour’s policies, Britain in recent years has been in the grip of a permanent revolution, driven by free movement and toxic identity politics, which promote division rather than integration. Large parts of our urban environment are no longer recognisably British at all.

Nelson in Lancashire, for instance, not only has 16 mosques but recently became the first English town with an Muslim majority, while across the Pennines Bradford University boasted this week that 85% of its students were from ethnic minorities.Watching their heritage being eroded and their neighbourhoods transformed, citizens now feel like aliens in their own land.

They want their old, reassuring, tolerant country back in place of this new incarnation, which mixes dogma with demographic upheaval. That explains the collapse in Labour support and the surge for Reform. Faced with electoral disaster, Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet have slid into panic mode.

Instead of addressing public concerns, Labour’s chiefs have adopted a strategy of vindictive attacks on Reform, with Nigel Farage demonised as a “racist” and his party as a bunch of bigots. Labour likes to pretend it has seized the moral high ground but, in truth, the party has slid into the gutter. This smear campaign marks a new low in British politics.

There has always been abuse in our democratic process, as in 1948 when health minister Nye Bevan described the Conservatives as “lower than vermin”. But these tended to be isolated incidents, whereas Labour today is engaged in a sustained barrage of character assassination.

The new Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy ridiculously even claimed Nigel Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth in his schooldays, when the Reform leader was actually born 20 years after the end of the Second World War.

Such dishonesty is characteristic of Labour’s fraudulent approach, whose nastiness makes a mockery of the party’s blather about compassion and tolerance. Only in a socialist madhouse where all morality has been inverted could Starmer be regarded as a greater patriot than Farage.

A typical metropolitan lawyer, Starmer worships the power of Brussels, as highlighted in his attempt to overturn Brexit. He also once wrote that the British immigration system is tainted by racism. Farage is the very opposite, having spent more than 30 years fighting heroically for British independence from the EU’s empire and battling tirelessly for stronger border controls.

In his Conference speech, Starmer said smugly that Farage “doesn’t like Britain” as if this were further proof of Reform’s dangerously reactionary outlook. But a huge chunk of the British population – precisely because of their patriotism – dislike what has happened to our country.

They see a fractured land where the costs of immigration are out of control, Sharia law is rapidly spreading, gangland violence is endemic, sectarianism is rife in local politics, the tradition of free speech is under threat and identity cards could soon be the price we have to pay for the government’s failures to secure our borders.

Sir Keir warned this week that if Farage and Reform came to power, “they would tear our country apart and fundamentally change us.” That is exactly what Labour is doing – which is why this vicious campaign will backfire.