‘Bristol is the UK’s crucible of wokeness’

Have a good look at the other parties’ manifestos. Labour, the Tories and the Greens are all dictated to by supranational globalist organisations. They will accelerate non-freedom.

Only Reform UK will protect our ancient national sovereignty as a democratic country. We won’t let the people down.

Bristol is the crucible of wokeness in the land.

Here is a brief selective inventory of Reform policies to enlighten and intrigue Bristol Central, where I am standing as the Reform candidate in the general election.

Economy

• Lift income tax start point to £20,000 per year
• Free more than 1.2m small and medium sized businesses from corporation tax
• Abolish off-payroll rules to support sole traders
• Lift the VAT threshold to £120,000

Immigration

1,250,000 immigrants entered the UK in 2022. Government figures say that around 14m immigrants will arrive between 2021 and 2036. This will lead to the depression of local wages, an increased housing crisis and longer NHS waiting lists.

Therefore:

• Freeze non-essential immigration
• Leave the European Convention on Human Rights
• Take illegal boat migrants back to France

Health

Hospital beds have been cut from 300,000 to 141,000 while the UK’s population has grown by 20 per cent

• End training caps for all UK medical students
• All frontline NHS staff to pay zero basic rate tax for three years
• Set up an excess deaths and vaccine harms enquiry

Energy

CO2 is essential for photosynthesis to enable plant growth. CO2 only represents 0.04 per cent of the Earth’s atmosphere. The UK produces less than one per cent of global emissions. Net zero is a notional unachievable goal and the UK is the only nation left pursuing this policy.

• Scrap net zero and related subsidies
• Scrap the annual £10bn renewable energy subsidies

Policing

• Common sense policing, not woke policing
• Increase the number of bobbies on the beat
• Depoliticise the College of Policing
• All officers must serve a two-year probationary period

Justice

• Change the definition of hate crime, i.e. the public should not be investigated because “any” person “perceives” that a hate crime has been committed
• Create a national agency to stop child grooming gangs

Education

• Ban transgender ideology and critical race theory in primary and secondary schools
• Scrap interest on student loans
• Cut funding to universities that undermine free speech

Brexit

Brexit was the biggest democratic mandate in history that 17.4m people voted for.

Therefore:

• Independence for Britain’s armed forces
• Leave PESCO
• Leave the European Defence Agency

Defence

• The British Army is the smallest size it has been for 300 years. We need to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of national GDP

Housing

• Half of all social housing is occupied by someone from overseas. We must put our own people first.

Children and families

• Mandate single sex spaces
• Support marriage through the tax system
• Review the online safety bill that compromises free speech

Transport and utilities

• Legislate to ban all ULEZ and low-traffic neighbourhoods
• Build new reservoirs
• Take ownership of foreign-owned infrastructure

Agriculture

• Farmland must not be lost to re-wilding and solar farms
• Focus on smaller farms, including organic
• 70 per cent of our food should come from the UK

Fishing

• Reclaim our fishing grounds and revitalise our fleet

Constitutional reform

• The civil service needs to become neutral again
• Commence reform of the House of Lords
• Introduce proportional representation

Reaffirm British sovereignty

• No central bank digital currency
• No cashless society
• Stop Sharia law courts
• Scrap all diversity, equality and inclusion roles that waste money, and create division, inequality and exclusion
• Launch a Westminster anti-corruption unit
• Commence reform of the BBC
• Introduce a comprehensive free speech bill

This is an opinion piece by Robert Clarke, the Reform UK candidate in Bristol Central

All of the candidates on the ballot paper for Bristol Central are due to take part in Bristol24/7’s hustings at the Bristol Beacon on Monday, July 1. For those unable to attend in person, the event will be livestreamed via the Bristol24/7 YouTube channel from 7pm. If you want to ask a question, please email editor@bristol247.com

Main photo: Ellie Pipe

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