Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford

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[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

The Guildford Dragon interviews Richard Tice & Graham Drage at the launch of Reform UK Guildford’s local election campaign - an opportunity to set out priorities, address local challenges & outline a practical path forward https://t.co/kGOKjjWnAm via @YouTube

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Last wk, Richard Tice hit Guildford and we didn’t waste a second!

Campaigning Guildford West, North Downs shoot, media with Guildford Dragon, dinner at Maloncho Tandoori with our supporters

Big energy. Strong team. Just getting started!

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Why are councils being abolished — and new ones created at the same time? This affects Guildford directly.
#Guildford #UKPolitics #LocalGovernment

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

The UK's identity rests on deep-rooted moral & cultural foundations that can't be set aside. This isn't about imposing belief, but about having the confidence to recognise what shaped us. It's now for King CharlesIII to state plainly whether the Crown still intends to defend that

[Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC @BishopDewar]

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows:

To:
His Majesty, Charles III,
King of the United Kingdom and the Realms,
Supreme Governor of the Church of England,
Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith.

Your Majesty,

I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled.

Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment.

For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith.

The laws of this land were shaped by it.
The liberties of our people were nurtured by it.
The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it.

From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her.

Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them.

Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age.

Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel.

Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation.

What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state.

It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis.

The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge.

They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation.

Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?”

They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled.

Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.

Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm.

History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ.

That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity.

And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault.

If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed.

The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long.

Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced.

For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender.

You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours.

Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means.

They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them.

For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it.

Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted.

May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown.

Yours faithfully,

Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC
Missionary Bishop
Diocese of Providence
Confessing Anglican Church

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[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

What if I told you the UK is just 2 days away from the lights and heating going out? 🚨

If foreign gas imports stopped today, our reserves would run dry in 48 hours.

Reform will rebuild our energy reserves so we are never 2 days away from a cold, dark winter.

[Linden Kemkaran @LeaderofKCC]

If you like what we’re doing for Kent County Council then on 2 October you’ve got 3 chances to #VoteReform in ✅Harrietsham, ✅Lenham & ✅North Downs 😀 @maidstonebc

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Politics, pasta & plenty of bags of fun at the Reigate Reform-UK dinner 🍝 Honoured to stand in for Clive Hall.
@Nanaakua1 brought the GB News fire, @lizziecundy the sparkle ! Susie Homes made it all sing. What a night! #ReformUK

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨 Extraordinary:

Reform now has more support than Labour and the Tories *combined* and a *16 point* lead.

🚀 🇬🇧

Find Out Now voting intention:
🟦 Reform UK: 34% (+1)
🔴 Labour: 18% (-)
🔵 Conservatives: 15% (-2)
🟠 Lib Dems: 13% (+1)
🟢 Greens: 10% (-)

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

If the UniParty Persists in Breaking the Social Contract, the People Will Respond!

Britons are once again asking whether the social contract between the governing elite and the people has been broken!

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

✍️ When we see people of all ages and both sexes demonstrating under St George’s Cross and the Union flag, it is a sign of something momentous.

Read Robert Tombs's essay ⬇️
https://t.co/HmFSonAZyx

[Richard Barker, Reform UK @ReformUKWoking]

Five days to go before voting closes in the @reformparty_uk Party Board elections

Thought for the day: Net Zero

If elected to the Board, I will push for a Reform UK policy to hold a full Public Enquiry into Net Zero to understand how this abomination was ever imposed on the UK

How did it become enshrined in law, and supported by the entire political, state and media establishment?

For those who don’t know, and this is the kicker, the UK’s Net Zero target under The Climate Change Act excludes the CO2 emitted in the manufacture of goods we import. This perverse truth hides in plain sight, even on the government’s own website

We’re achieving ‘Net Zero’ by offshoring our industry, jobs and wealth. Our CO2 is now emitted by China - but that CO2 doesn’t count under the rules!

What was the real agenda of those who came up with ‘Net Zero’?

https://t.co/yxU4VG3tzy

[Richard Barker, Reform UK @ReformUKWoking]

Two days before voting opens in the election for the @reformparty_uk Party Board

I hope you will support my vision to connect branches and members to leadership, galvanising our grassroots engagement:
https://t.co/i4ZGQ6tXGO

My thanks to Tim Charters for the interview

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

As Chair of Reform Guildford, I’m backing Richard Barker (Reform Woking) for the Board. Richard brings integrity, clarity & real commitment to our grassroots. I’ll be voting for him in the elections & I encourage others who value a member-led movement to do the same. #ReformUK

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Huge congratulations to @ReformUKWoking — one of just 19 candidates shortlisted for Reform UK’s new national Board. A great opportunity to bring real grassroots insight to the top table. Best of luck, Richard! 👏🇬🇧 #ReformUK #VoiceOfTheMembers

[Richard Barker, Reform UK @ReformUKWoking]

Delighted to be one of only 19 candidates still in the running for the three places on Reform UK’s Board

Voting starts August 14th!

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Proud to nominate @ReformUKWoking and back Richard's bid for a place on the Reform UK Executive Board.
#ReformExec

[Richard Barker, Reform UK @ReformUKWoking]

Fully vetted candidate in my bid for a position on Reform UK's Board

Vote for me to unleash our party's potential

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Big night incoming in Guildford!

Join us on Thursday 23 October for an electrifying evening with MP Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of Reform UK.

🎟️ Tickets are limited – book now to avoid missing out:
👉 https://t.co/KchLbFyw4t

#ReformUK #Guildford #RichardTice #PoliticalChange

[Graham Drage - Reform Chair - Guildford @ReformGford]

Laila Cunningham doesn’t sugarcoat it - she calls it as she sees it.
Laila speaks with courage and clarity.
If you want politics with principle, if you want a voice for common sense and real justice, look no further than Laila Cunningham!

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

“There’s too much emphasis on hate speech in the criminal justice system and it’s a waste of the courts’ time”

Former prosecutor @policylaila, a mother of seven, believes there are 'a lot more serious crimes that we need to address'

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/6UXtz8AREq

[Richard Barker, Reform UK @ReformUKWoking]

Vote for Richard Barker and Sean Flude on July 10th:

Woking South electoral division and Hoe Valley ward by-elections.

[Cllr Rory O'Brien @RUK_SunburyComm]

Vote for Jason Gelver this Thursday in the Ashford Town ward by-election.

[Talk @TalkTV]

Mike Graham looks back on Keir Starmer's five years as Labour leader.

@Iromg

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Lincolnshire Council is spending £8k a year to transport a schoolgirl to a state school after Labour’s 20% tax on private school fees forced her out. Mother Sarah Lambert calls out the government for failing to consider the real impact of their policies.