Patriotic British voters now have a real alternative to this failed elite.
It is time for a change. Voters understand that Starmer’s Labour is just the different side of the same grubby coin to Sunak’s Tories
Britain has been failed by two main parties that have conspired to accelerate our decline. There is not a cigarette paper between Labour and the Tories in this election.
Both are hooked on a deadly addiction to mass immigration; neither has a plan to pull this country out of a deep economic hole. And, frankly, neither believe in it. I believe in this nation, and I’m prepared to fight for it.
That is why I have announced that I will lead Reform UK for the next five years and seek election as the MP for Clacton, a Brexit-voting Essex town that has a lot less than it deserves.
Campaigning this weekend, I was reminded of my responsibility to the millions of decent, patriotic Brits who are sick to the back teeth with our political establishment for its policy of betrayal. The people that I meet are furious at, first Labour, and now the Tories’ open-door approach to mass immigration, with some 2.5 million migrants entering the UK in the past two years alone. That’s why this really is the Immigration Election.
There is also deep anger that public services, from healthcare to housing, are disintegrating even as record peacetime taxes are levied on pitifully stagnant wages. And there is utter despondency among the electorate that neither Labour nor the Tories can put forward a plan – let alone a leader – that offers just a shred of hope that things might improve.
When media types tell me that a vote for Reform is a wasted one, I am first baffled by their arrogance and then remind them that, while Labour has already won this election, the role of official opposition is up for grabs.
There’s no doubt that I have taken a big risk in giving up the life I enjoy to work for a vision of Britain so hated by our wrong-headed elites. But the state of the nation has left me with no choice. Moreover, I am confident of overturning this ragged Tory party to then take the fight to all those that deny Britain a bright future as a self-governing, prosperous country.
While the stakes are high, there is a path to meaningful power for a common-sense political party like Reform. The referendum of 2016 was won on a bedrock of working-class, patriotic support built by Ukip under my leadership, which in the general election just a year before had taken more votes off Labour than the Tories. In 2019, I pointed those voters in Boris Johnson’s direction, handing him a huge majority that he proceeded to bungle.
But the millions of voters looking for an alternative should know that there will be no reprieve for the Tories this time. My friend Richard Tice has got Reform polling impressively in the polls and now is the moment for us to go hell for leather, realising our potential to become a force in Westminster.
Reform’s agenda for the country is based on the belief that the purpose of power is to best serve British citizens. Where Labour and the Tories stand for mass immigration, Reform would freeze non-essential migration to reverse long-standing wage depression and save Britain’s public services from the burden of unlimited demand.
Where the London establishment stands for high taxes and high spending on their pet projects, Reform understands that British taxpayers know best how to spend their money. Where media institutions run by the chattering classes put down this country and its history at every opportunity, I will never apologise for championing Britain and putting its people first.
It is time for a change. Voters understand that Starmer’s Labour is just the different side of the same grubby coin to Sunak’s Tories. The electorate must be given the confidence that a viable alternative exists.
I want to lead a revolt against the political establishment and I’m asking you to join me by voting Reform on July 4. DT.
