The UK’s Labour Government continues to slide in the polls and looks to come third in local elections – a Labour rebellion is forming – UK Reform needs to build credibility
PETER HALLIGAN
Disclaimer: I will not vote in any election that does not campaign on a plan to reduce local and national debt, whilst reducing taxes to a maximum of 10% of all income. I doubt I will vote again, ever,
Headlines are emerging with greater frequency in the MSM: like these:
Keir Starmer’s unpopularity hits Labour’s grassroots
“In local by-elections, Labour is now polling at just 24.8 per cent, fractionally ahead of the Tories on 23.7 per cent, says the respected Election Maps UK website.”
“Polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, said Labour was paying the price for not being honest with voters during the election campaign.”
I beg to differ. Aside from the incompetence and corruption that Labour has engaged in, it is enacting its manifesto published all the way back in April 2024 (scoot halfway down to the Labour manifesto comment).
The chattering classes on social media podcasts are, rightly, hammering the incompetence and corruption on display.
It is all well and good highlighting the obvious, but it’s absolutely necessary not to lose sight of the hundreds of billions of costs being imposed on Brits (“net zero”, “vaccines” and illegal immigration) as well as the millions in obvious corruption and incompetence.
Another headline
Labour civil war erupts as Keir Starmer branded ‘liar’ for ‘attack on working class’s
“In the by-election the Conservatives got 35% of the vote, Reform 30% and Labour just 28%.”
An election result from a local Council – not a national Parliamentary seat.
“”He lied to us all to get elected and does not deserve to be the leader of the Labour Party. Good, honest councillors will lose their seats because of Keir Starmer’s actions and his attack on working-class people.”
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel (“from accounts” Reeves has just started enacting the transfer of wealth from the private to the public sector – most notable through a whopping 40 billion grab from corporations via an increase in “Employer National Insurance” contributions (that will cost jobs and taxes) and inheritance tax hikes (that will cost 40% of the “estates” of the deceased starting in a few years’ time).
These tax hikes will NOT address the “status quo” of 80–100-billion-pound annual fiscal deficits or the national debt of 3 trillion pounds costing 120-150 billion pounds a year.
They are before the massive costs of building out “net zero” goals and 150,000 new homes a year for five years (costing around 50 billion pounds a year for the next five years).
The annual cost of illegal immigration is also not addressed. You might reasonably conclude that 150,000 new homes a year will eventually house 2 million illegal immigrants – who have invaded the UK over the last two decades. As it is, each of those 2 million illegal immigrants’ costs at least 25,000 pounds every year, EACH, – for housing, food, health and all the supporting services – taxis, legal and policing costs, and so on. All money handed out with no accounting and money denied to Brits in need of health treatments, poor housing and poverty – such as sleeping rough.
Another 50 billion pounds a year of immigrant criminals, rather that h poor and elderly in the UK.
Which brings us to UK Reform.
In my view, UK Reform has a huge task ahead o establish its credibility, It does have an opportunity to re-establish common sense policies – but -it needs a clear “living” manifesto in every policy area – from “net zero”, through immigration, education, health, judiciary, Ukraine, Trade, Sharia law – every government ministry.
And it needs to advertise this manifesto and distribute it as widely as possible. “Farage’s little blue book”.
It must have a plan to migrate the budgets of each ministry towards end goals AND it must have a bench of people who can transact the migration to the manifesto,
In pounds and pence – from the grass roots upwards.
Local candidates at the council and Parliamentary level must fully understand council budgets AND national budgets at the government ministry level.
I suggest that YK Reform needs to advocate for a reduction in the size of Parliament – to 400 seats AD the replacements of the House of Lords with a Senate of 100 – based on percentage of the electorate votes at the national party level.
The assets of the Royal family should clearly belong to the public and the Royal family as its caretakers/janitors.
So, a detailed alternative “UK Reform” Budget that itemises – from a zero-based budget perspective – what the future under UK Reform looks like – which can be directly compared to the status quo of Labour and Conservative budgets.
Onwards!!!
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Starmer’s ratings ‘catastrophic’ with rural voters furious at farm tax raid
Polling for The Telegraph suggests just one in five believe Labour cares about people who live and work in the countryside
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned his ratings have suffered a “catastrophic” fall among countryside voters angered by his “family farm tax”.
Just one in five voters believes Labour cares about people who live and work in the countryside, polling for The Telegraph has found.
A survey of more than 2,000 adults conducted by Public First, the political consultancy, found only 22 per cent believed Labour cared about those in rural areas.
Even among those who voted for Labour at the most recent general election, this only rose to two in five (40 per cent).
“Labour’s ratings with all voters are very poor at the moment, but with rural voters they are catastrophic,” said James Frayne, a partner at Public First.
Mr Frayne added: “To some extent they might have expected that with countryside voters, having had all the negative coverage. But they might be somewhat surprised by the developing vitriol being levelled at them by ordinary voters which now seems to be absolutely commonplace.”
It comes after a string of unpopular policy decisions, including changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) announced in the Budget, which farmers claim will put many out of business.
From April 2026, farms worth more than £1 million will be subject to a 20 per cent levy, half the usual inheritance tax rate.
Rural groups have argued that the £1 million threshold will hit the majority of working family farms, asset-rich but cash-poor, instead of targeting wealthy people buying land to avoid inheritance tax.
On Saturday, Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress, became the first major union boss to speak out against the policy, saying he was “worried” about the impact changes to APR will have on small farmers.
“You wouldn’t want the policy to impact on small family farms, because that was never the intention,” he told The Independent.
“The onus will be on the Government to demonstrate that this doesn’t have the impact that some fear it will have. I know that for some small employers, national insurance contributions will also be a worry next year, particularly for those companies operating on small profit margins.”
Public First also found that voters believed the Green Party cared about the countryside more than Labour.
Asked which political parties best understood the lives of those who live and work in the countryside, the most popular answer was the Conservative Party, followed by Reform.
The Green Party – which is usually popular in urban, cosmopolitan areas – came third, followed by Labour in fourth place with 19 per cent. Only the Liberal Democrats trailed Labour, with 12 per cent.
Separate analysis by the Countryside Alliance found that there are now 135 rural or semi-rural constituencies with Labour MPs, many of whom were elected with a slim majority.
“People put a blind faith in the Labour Party [at the election],” Mr Frayne said. “There are many constituencies Labour had very little history in having representation in the past.
“People just thought it can’t be any worse but many have been surprised that actually it is worse. The anger levelled towards the Labour Party is really quite something.”
Public First also carried out a series of in-depth interviews as part of their qualitative research into how rural voters felt about the Government.
Speaking to voters in the rural constituency of Banbury, at the edge of the Cotswolds, they found that most felt Labour had had a rocky start in government and that not enough had changed – but many felt it was still too early to draw firm conclusions.
Ian Deacon, a former Conservative voter in his sixties, decided to vote Labour at the last election. He said he now felt it was a “wasted vote”.
He told researchers: “The Conservatives had to get out because they were lost. But maybe we should have gone down a different route.” He added that if there was an election tomorrow, he would “probably vote Reform
Mr Deacon, who works in the water sector, went on to say: “I don’t think that they’re really targeting anybody – I don’t think they know who to target. They’ve got into power and I don’t think they really had a plan.”
Meanwhile, Ian Haynes, an ex-Conservative who voted for Reform at the last election, said he stood by his decision since the Tories had “lost their way” and: “I don’t hear any sensible arguments against what Labour’s doing.”
Judy Carter, a teacher who voted for Labour, said: “If you’re trying to make a more equitable society, we’ve all got to take a share of the cuts, and up to now, the farmers have not taken any cuts.
“So I understand they may think it’s unfair, but I believe the numbers of people actually going to be affected by the tax is not that great.”
Another ex-Tory voter who voted for Labour in the last election said he thought it was going “terribly” for the Government. He said the Chancellor’s maiden Budget was not a “Budget for growth”, as she had termed it but a “Budget for absolute decline.
He added: “National Insurance income on small business is crippling. If you put together a small business owner probably has children at private schools. The VAT on top is ludicrous.”
A Government spokesman said: “Our commitment to farmers remains steadfast – we have committed £5 billion to the farming budget over two years, including more money than ever for sustainable food production, and we are developing a 25-year farming roadmap, focusing on how to make the sector more profitable in the decades to come.
“Our reform to Agricultural and Business Property Relief will impact around 500 estates a year.
“For these estates, inheritance tax will be at half the rate paid by others, with 10 years to pay the liability back, interest-free. This is a fair and balanced approach which fixes the public services we all rely on.”
The Telegraph: continue reading
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Labour attacks its roots by closing down industry
One of the worst features of the government’s actions so far has been the determined attack on industry, trying to root out all use of fossil fuels to rely on imports instead.
1 They reversed the last government’s policy of granting exploration and development licences to U.K. oil and gas. They want to close our industry down as quickly as possible.
2. They reversed the previous governments delay to phasing out new petrol and diesel cars to 2035, bring it forward to a crippling 2030. They refuse to relax or abolish the penal taxes on selling too many petrol and diesel cars. Expect plenty of factory closures.
3. They confirmed the ending of all new steel making, despite criticising the former government for agreeing to this.
4. They have lifted the costs of energy higher, with higher managed prices, higher taxes and the introduction of carbon capture and storage, an extra large cost on burning energy.
5.They have accepted the closure of the Grangemouth refinery.
Why create all this carnage? Why import when you could make at home?
SOURCE: John Redwood’s Diary
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