It’s time to reassert our conservative principles

‘Brexit’ should have been a Tory policy years ago. It wasn’t because they prefer globalist supranational government to nation state self-government.

Once a means for the poorest kids to excel, today they are a privilege for a wealthy few thanks to the ban preventing more to be established.

Against our liberal traditions, the Tories resorted to authoritarianism at a time of health crisis and destroyed lives and livilihoods in the process.

With soft sentencing and soft prisons resulting in weak deterrents for preventing crime, it is no wonder why crime so rarely falls and why prisons are so often full. The Conservatives are not the “party of law and order”.

The tax burden is set to be the highest it’s been since the country recovered from World War Two over 70 years ago. The Tories’ public spending plans are no different to Labour’s.

Conservatives in the US and Europe debate healthcare reform all the time. But here they simply borrow and throw more money at an inefficient monolithic socialist system and pretend they’re improving healthcare.

The Conservatives have been responsible for the biggest mass closure of police stations we’ve ever seen and destroyed that real connection with local police officers.

Our national debt now stands at an astonishing £2.3 trillion. The interest on that debt in February ’22 was £8.2 billion that could have been spent elsewhere.

Supposedly opposed to socialism, Conservative councils have purchased shopping centres, hotels, cinemas and much more, trying and failing to turn a profit but costing us a fortune.

The Tories for years insisted on EU membership and costly Single Market regulations, lobbied for by which special interests few people know.

Does it get any more unconservative than to diminish our armed forces and national defence?

While the Tories are trapped by the referendum result, most of them would prefer we re-joined the EU as soon as possible.

We believe the United Kingdom must  forever remain a free, independent and democratically self-governing country in full control of its own laws and its own future.

We will introduce a radical new school system and grant poorer kids greater access to private schools.

Schools will receive funding from the spending of parent-issued vouchers and will thus compete more directly with all other schools and become more incentivised to improve their offering.

We will abolish this last century television poll tax which the Tories seemingly don’t have the courage to do.

The BBC will be moved to a  private subscription model. Those who wish to consume the BBC will be free to subscribe and fund the BBC. Those that do not will not be forced to do the same.

Our healthcare aim is universal access to quality healthcare tailored to your unique needs.

We will replace the NHS, a sluggish monolithic bureaucracy, with a more efficient social insurance model that accommodates personalised healthcare plans and is accessible by all regardless of means.

Ineffective at tackling viruses, lockdowns destroy businesses, jobs, children’s education, the national economy, and the livelihoods and mental health of millions.

With a few exceptions, such as care homes, staying at home or going out during a health crisis ought to be a free and informed choice of the individual.

No one has the right not to be offended.

While left-wing intolerance of free speech is rife in universities and company HR departments, we will protect the free flow of peaceful information, ideas and opinions – offensive or not.

Politicians have no moral right to tell parents what sort of education their child may or may not benefit from.

We will repeal the rules that currently prevent the establishment of new grammar schools.

We will devolve major powers such as health, education, housing, policing and criminal justice down to counties and metropolitan areas.

One size does not fit all. Major decisions ought to be tailored to local communities and residents better able to hold decision-makers, spending their money, to account.

We must minimise misguided government command and control, and eliminate huge unnecessary costs for millions of businesses and the unfair disadvantage for small business.

A sunset clause must be applied to all EU-originated regulation that leads to their expiry, unless they can be reasoned and justified afresh.

Never again will a majority of short-stay politicians be legally permitted to transform our national constitution without the people’s consent first. 

Parliament has no right to transfer sovereignty for example to global institutions like the European Union unless instructed to do so by the people.

How many times have the Tories pretended to care about the debt? Yet they’ve added to it, a lot.

We will ensure borrowing and the over £2.2 trillion national debt is reduced. It is immoral, in our view, to pass such huge debt and its interest rates onto future generations.

There is no more effective way to reduce the cost of vital goods and services for everyone, including the poorest, than to cut tariffs and other restrictions on international trade.

We will unilaterally cut tariffs and pursue trade deals that would reduce trade barriers on both sides.