Ben Habib's Advance UK: Unmasking the False Flag Corporate Raid on British Sovereignty

In the fractured arena of British conservatism, Ben Habib—former Brexit Party MEP, ex-Reform UK deputy leader, and millionaire property magnate—presents himself as the unyielding guardian of national sovereignty. Born in Pakistan in 1965 to a British mother, Habib relocated to the UK at 13, schooled at Rugby and Cambridge, before forging a fortune in commercial real estate. As CEO of First Property Group, a London-listed firm with heavy Eastern European exposure, he oversees £600 million in assets across the UK, Poland, and Romania, profiting handsomely from post-2008 deregulation and foreign capital flows. His personal wealth, pegged at £5 million+, stems from spotting undervalued assets abroad and flipping them for global investors— a model that screams opportunism, not patriotism. Yet, as leader of Advance UK and chair of the Great British PAC, Habib's operation isn't about reclaiming Britain's greatness—it's a Trojan horse for the very globalist asset-stripping he claims to oppose, dressed in the rhetoric of the true right.

The Illusion of Patriotism: Advance UK and the Great British PAC

Habib's vehicles—Advance UK, rebranded from the obscure Integrity Party in June 2025, and the Great British PAC—exploit the frustration of genuine conservatives disillusioned with Reform UK's perceived softness under Nigel Farage. Advance UK hit 30,000 members by September, bankrolled by Habib's £100,000 seed money and a nod from Elon Musk, who in August slammed Farage as "weak sauce" while praising Habib's "change." The party's manifesto hammers "zero net migration," slashing regulations, and "free-market reforms" to "unlock prosperity"—echoing Reform but with sharper edges, like open arms to Tommy Robinson and vows for mass deportations Farage won't touch. But this isn't principled conservatism; it's a vote-splitter, launching alongside Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain in a blatant ego-driven fracture of the right-wing bloc, handing seats to Labour on a platter.

The Great British PAC, Habib's "NGO-style" super-PAC launched in early 2025, is the real engine: a US-inspired dark-money funnel for litigation (e.g., blocking the Chagos handover), activist training, and policy nudges, all without Electoral Commission scrutiny as a non-party entity. Chaired by Habib and co-run by media strategist Claire Bullivant, its advisory board pulls in transatlantic heavies like Republican commentator Greg Swenson, ex-Tory insiders, and online provocateur Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), whose history of inflammatory rhetoric mobilizes digital foot soldiers but reeks of controlled chaos. Musk's endorsement opens doors to Silicon Valley cash eyeing UK AI deregulation; Swenson's GOP ties signal influxes from US free-market lobbies like the Club for Growth, which Habib openly emulates. And Habib's own empire? Built on Eastern Europe's post-Communist fire sale, where deregulation let foreign vultures like BlackRock (with its £60 billion UK real estate grab) feast on privatized assets while locals got crumbs.

Corporate Architects: Deep Ties to Global Finance and Pharma

Now, the PAC's opacity cracks wide open with its advisory board and regional directors featuring clear plants from the corporate elite: Bepi Pezzulli Esq., a former BlackRock legal and compliance director (2013-2015, heading Italian/Greek operations for the $10 trillion asset manager), and Yvette Cleland, South Central England Regional Director with an eight-year career at Janssen (the Johnson & Johnson pharma arm), once CEO of Clinical Professionals Group, a staffing firm that pipelines talent to global pharma behemoths like AstraZeneca and Pfizer. These aren't random patriots—they're City and pharma veterans whose careers greased the wheels for foreign capital's grip on British assets.

Pezzulli, a solicitor specializing in international financial law (qualified in England, New York, and Italy), advised on mergers, sovereign debt emissions, and fund governance at BlackRock, honing the playbook for asset grabs in deregulated markets like post-crisis Europe. Cleland, APBI-qualified with a pharma MBA, spent eight years at Janssen building operational teams, then scaled recruitment firms that staff Big Pharma's UK operations—ensuring seamless profit extraction from NHS trials, drug development, and supply chains. Add Swenson, the ex-Lehman Brothers investment banker turned Republicans Overseas UK chair, co-founding The Hamilton investment firm targeting African infrastructure—another offshore profiteer eyeing "opportunities" in emerging markets, much like Habib's Polish ventures. This cadre of abroad-enriched millionaires—Habib from Polish property booms, Musk from tax-haven ops, Swenson from Yankee donor networks, Pezzulli from Wall Street fund maneuvers, Cleland from pharma pipelines—isn't here to build Britain; they're primed to dismantle it for profit.

The Deregulation Playbook: How Britain Becomes a Corporate Target

Habib's deregulation gospel mirrors the playbook that gutted utilities in the 1980s-90s: slash rules, privatize en masse, invite foreign bids. BlackRock, already holding stakes in 70% foreign-owned UK water firms (riddled with £50 billion debt), stands ready to snap up more at fire-sale prices—Pezzulli's compliance expertise would smooth the regulatory glide. Big pharma's shadow falls via PAC-backed tax breaks and patent shields, funneling NHS billions abroad while AstraZeneca (20% Vanguard/BlackRock-owned) hikes prices unchecked; Cleland's networks ensure the talent flow keeps the machine humming. Musk's tech push? Subsidized data centers and spectrum auctions, expatriating £50 billion in "innovation" profits with zero domestic reinvestment. Swenson's bilateral trade advocacy (echoing his parliamentary testimony) paves the way for US-style deals that flood UK markets with American capital, prioritizing investors over workers. It's the Polish model redux: Habib prospered as locals faced precarity, utilities hiked 25%, and wealth fled to London funds.

The High Cost of 'Sovereignty': Economic and Democratic Erosion

If Advance surges—polling niche but siphoning Reform's base, potentially gifting Labour a 2029 supermajority—the stripping accelerates. Under the National Security Act's Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (live since July 2025), PAC opacity dodges state-lobby rules but invites private foreign sway—echoing 2025 Chinese meddling probes, but from "allies" like the US. GDP flatlines as assets hemorrhage: £10-15 billion annual utility outflows, drug costs up £5 billion, housing inflated 15-20% by offshore bids, displacing families. Pensions? Sucked into global managers' maw, widening the Gini to American extremes (0.45+). And the "democracy" Habib touts? A convoluted hybrid of private company and party, ripe for boardroom coups, not member votes—far from the internal democracy he decried in Reform.

Asset-Stripping Pathways and Their Costs

This isn't the authentic right of borders, tradition, and self-reliance—it's a grift, peddled by expat profiteers who built empires on others' ruins. As X voices from the real right lament, Advance is "controlled opposition," a "non-entity" ego trip that cannibalizes votes without delivering. Habib's "patriotism" surrenders Britain to the Davos crowd he rails against. The remedy? Unify behind uncompromised forces like a revitalized Reform or UKIP—not this corporate mirage. Britain deserves defenders, not dealers.