paul g richardson in Atherstone, Warwickshire

The Brexit Party was formed to give a voice to the majority of people who were fed up with the way politics was done in this country. Brexit was about making us free, but beyond Brexit we have to be governed better. The whole system of government in the UK is not working. We renamed the party Reform UK, as we want to be known as the party of reform, which reflects what our country needs. Reform. Real change to benefit the people, to give them back their liberties, and to make our nation more successful. We are facing the gravest economic crisis since the end of the Second World War, with this decade's growth at its lowest and tax at its highest for seventy years, inflation at its highest for over thirty years, and energy prices skyrocketing. We must reform our Economy. To succeed we must have lower and simpler taxes, smartly regulated, generating a high growth economy. That will mean higher wage growth and more tax revenues over time, to invest in healthcare and other public services. We need to motivate, train and enthuse two million people on benefits back into work, and provide better support for those who are genuinely unable to work. We must also stop wasting taxpayers' money. You can see our Emergency Rescue Plan - how to grow our way out of crisis here. We are still working on our proposals for pensions and savings, which we will be releasing in due course. We must reform our Public Sector, seeking ambitious, faster, and more efficient public services that work better for us all, with better results, and more accountability. Our recently announced plans for health and social care aim to reduce NHS waiting lists to zero in two years time, with frontline patient-facing health and social care workers not paying basic rate income tax for the next two years, which would alleviate the current disputes. You can read the details here. We must increase the number of frontline staff and reduce/improve management. Our military capability must be rapidly rebuilt and maintained; Border Force must protect our borders; our police need to focus on preventing crime and catching criminals; our schools must educate our children properly to prepare them for a competitive, challenging world. We must reform our Institutions, making major changes to the bodies that impact on our lives. The unelected cronyism of the House of Lords, the outdated civil service, the bloated BBC. Reform is essential to our voting system so that it is fairer and more representative; the two party system embeds the status quo and prevents real change. Under the proportional representation electoral system, which we support, there is no such thing as a wasted vote, and you get genuine representation based on the number of votes cast. The Conservative Party do not use First Past The Post to select their new leader, because they know that it often results in a winner that the majority opposes. So why is it used for general elections? You can add your name and join the movement to end First Past The Post here. We will continue to highlight areas of concern, such as the wastefulness of HS2, the potential national security risks of our involvement with Huawei, the government and mainstream media kowtowing to the radical left in the face of disgraceful attacks on our national values, and the scandal of human trafficking taking place in the English Channel. We must have a zero tolerance attitude to illegal immigration. We need to turn off the magnet of four star hotels, benefits, mobile phones, etc.. Send to France not money, but pick up and return the illegal asylum seekers and their boats, which would be in accordance with the 1974 International Convention of Safety of Lives at Sea. Following protracted negotiations, the EU (Future Relationship) Act entered into law. Boris Johnson advised that we are a free sovereign independent nation again, politically free of the European Court of Justice, free to govern ourselves as we see fit. However, the UK will still be paying potentially hundreds of millions of pounds each year, to fund unnamed, questionable EU projects including the European Defence Fund via the opaque Horizon Europe programme. There are no agreements in respect of financial services, which accounts for about 80% of the UK's economic output. Northern Ireland has been put in a different constitutional arrangement to the rest of the United Kingdom with a de facto border down the Irish Sea, and contrary to what we have been told, the Windsor Framework does not improve the situation. The Government should be truthful, remove any impediment or barrier to unfettered trade within the United Kingdom, whether by invoking Clause 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, or by some other means. We still do not own the fish that swim in our exclusive economic zone, and to increase our quota share at the end of the adjustment period in 2026, we will have to pay compensation to the EU fleet, so that our fleets can catch our fish in our waters!