Dear Mrs Badenoch
You have berated Robert Jenrick both for his defection to Reform and his claim that Britain is broken. You also stated a short time ago that the Conservatives had made mistakes in the past and lost the trust of the British people. You’ve certainly lost trust, but it’s on the ‘mistakes’ issue that we differ. Let’s look at your first point: Britain isn’t broken.
1. Our debt interest is £10billion a year. Labour will no doubt make this even worse. The GDP per capita is one of the lowest in the developed nations and showing no sign of improving. This is due to the disastrous Net Zero policy Theresa May doubled down on, handicapping our industry, and adding to the crippling levels of taxation stifling business. The bond markets will not tolerate this indefinitely.
2. Our jails are overflowing with foreign nationals, many of whom have committed serious crimes. Many others are in receipt of benefit.
3. The demographic profile of our major cities has changed, possibly irrevocably, to that of a pre-medieval culture that doesn’t respect women, the rule of secular law, parliamentary democracy, and in fact wants to destroy us. No-go areas are now in existence because our police are fearful of creating ‘community tensions’; see the Craig Guildford debacle.
4. The NHS is not working and outcomes are the worst in Europe despite record levels of spending.
I could go on, but it’s ‘we made mistakes’ that I really take issue with. I contend these weren’t mistakes but deliberate actions. Under the 14 years of Conservative tenure, the following actions were implemented:
1. David Cameron and George Osborne increased the size of the state from 30 per cent to 47 per cent of GDP, setting us up for a dependency culture.
2. Theresa May committed to Net Zero without allowing sufficient time for informed parliamentary debate. I suggest it was because she knew its ruinous economic effects would have been exposed had she done so. Also on this topic, I note you’ve said if elected you’ll scrap it. However, this is extremely unlikely to happen as the Conservative Environment Network, which shows no sign of shifting its stance, still hold sway on this, as do the party financial backers.
3. Theresa May decimated police numbers and the Army was permitted to decline.
4. Taxpayers’ money was wasted on useless quangos and other rubbish like Stonewall.
5. There was a clear repeated refusal to leave the ECHR. Okay, this is inaction as opposed to action, but it can be just as damaging especially when most of the public understand leaving the ECHR is paramount in protecting our borders. Also, it is an admission that your party puts obedience to international law (whatever that is) before the interests of the people electing it.
6. Hiking tax up to the highest level for 70 years, clearly at loggerheads with growing the economy. A clear Socialist measure. Some of the world’s wealthiest countries are those with the lowest tax rates. The covid debt could have been treated as war debt (ref: Patrick Minford, economist to Margaret Thatcher).
7. Oh, and while we’re at it let’s look at your personal track record. You promised a bonfire of EU rules, but reneged when offered a cabinet position to please Rishi Sunak’s Davos masters.
These are deliberate actions, not of a centre right party, but of one who implements the diktats of unelected global supranational bodies, and in so doing have become an anachronism.
Yours sincerely,
David Hulland
Rushmoor Reform and Rushmoor People First
