Dear Editor
Re the Tory Party conference – has anything changed? They came up with some interesting proposals, competing with Labour to steal from Reform.
I’m afraid it’s not enough just to tell us that they will be pursuing policies more in line with what people want. That should be the baseline of any government.
Before we can trust the Tories again, we need them to confront their sins, and there are many. When they can admit to us that recent Tory governments deliberately followed policies that were destructive and globalist by nature, we might start listening to them.
With Labour, LibDems and Greens, the Tories colluded to stop new parties getting into Parliament, to keep us under the thumb of the EU, to promote globalist socialist policies and generally to agree the country’s direction.
Specifically, the massive transgressions of recent Tory governments include:
Driving Net Zero hard and allowing it to make us uncompetitive while destroying our commerce and industry. Additionally they imposed many policies against car drivers. They did not follow the science; they did however make energy very expensive for no good reason and littered our land and sea with worthless windmills and solar panels;
Making day-to-day living so expensive for ordinary people by adverse economic policies which Labour are still pursuing. Massively over-taxing everyone, discouraging investors, closing down high streets and seriously reducing our quality of life;
Oppressive legislation to curtail freedoms started with the Tories and they carried on with allowing more illegals into the country;
Piling up our national debt with huge sums sent abroad for questionable purposes, not managing the economy professionally and allowing government spending to get seriously out of hand;
External influence over HMG decisions has been suggested often. Admit how this happened so that it can be avoided in future.
A simple ‘Sorry’ will not suffice. If the Tories are ever going to be considered for office again, they must confront where they went so badly off the rails before and show they are determined not to repeat the same tyrannical strategy. I strongly suggest this should be done as a big part of the next party conference.
Bryan Harris
Swanley, Kent
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