Reform and Nigel Farage have finally made a response to our offer in the Daily Telegraph - I will go through their four conditions…
The Reform Chairman, Lee Anderson, has said Reform will not step aside in any constituencies. Reform should ‘always’ be on the ballot paper.
Meaning that Reform plan to run in every seat, even if there is an arrangement. This is not a constructive start.
I have been realistic. Clearly, the whole point of any arrangement would be not to divide the electoral force. That would mean certain Restore Britain candidates standing aside to ensure a sensible and pragmatic approach to our voting system.
If Reform are not willing to reciprocate in any constituencies, any at all, the offer I have made is entirely redundant.
They have also said we must endorse Farage to be Prime Minister, and allow the failed Conservative ministers to again be part of a future cabinet.
Contrary to reports, I have never said that Reform must dump anybody. That is not my place to do so. It is their party, it is entirely Reform’s choice who they run to be MPs or employ - it is putting these same ministers who failed Britain into a future cabinet which Restore Britain has helped to empower that I take issue with. Restore Britain will not be responsible for handing Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries and others some of the most powerful jobs in the country.
Farage and Reform have also said that Restore Britain must outright sack Charlie Downes - putting a young Christian man out of work, just as he is looking to build his life and start a family.
That is simply not how I operate.
But I want to be clear - if a sensible reciprocal arrangement can be found on our proposed policy platform, we would be willing to stand our Restore Britain candidates aside in certain seats in order to defeat the left-wing alliance. For any political party, that is a big step to make - country before party.
Reform have just outright rejected doing the same. If that position continues, then this whole exercise is futile.
A deal will mean give and take on both sides. I’ve been in business long enough to know that.
Our original offer was focused on policy, their response is about personality.
After all of the bad blood, if we focus on personality and ego, we will get nowhere. That much is obvious from the last seven days.
Our papers on economics, energy, deportations, policing and much more show exactly what can be delivered - properly considered policy must be central to everything.
The place to start this negotiation is on policy. Find common ground, sort out the clear differences, build on that and go from there.
Restore Britain remains open to good faith talks where both parties understand the brutal electoral reality we are facing.
🚨NEWS: Nigel Farage has said he won't hold any talks with Rupert Lowe until he sacks Charlie Downes
Once again Farage revealing he couldn't care less about putting the country first
🚨NEW: PANIC at Reform UK as the party has now slipped to THIRD position in the opinion polls, behind BOTH Labour AND the Conservatives 🇬🇧
That’s what you get for turning your back on your voter base and trying to alienate a real nationalist party.
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So let me get this straight.
The conservatives spent the last 14 years handing out social housing to foreign nationals.
But if you vote for them in the next election they won’t do that anymore!
GTFOH
They're lying. They were in power for fourteen years. In every election campaign they promised to cut immigration. They increased it every time. They tried to destroy our country. They should never be given another chance.
We are £3 trillion (and counting) in debt
The borders are open
The economy is flat lining
Businesses are closing
People are leaving.
Meanwhile Labour MPs...
"Men are women"
"We must pay more tax to stop the weather"
"Gaza"
"Ukraine"
"England flags are awful"
"Far right"
Labour timeline:
1945 - Labour elected
1947 - Britain Bankrupt
1964 - Labour elected
1964 - Britain Bankrupt
1974 - Labour elected
1976 - Britain Bankrupt
1997 - Labour elected
2008 - Britain Bankrupt
2024- labour elected-
Doomed to failure. Socialism doesn’t work.
#LabourLies
They’re on holiday and adding to the economy you stupid bitch.. not claiming benefits, raping women, littering, shitting in the streets and stabbing people indiscriminately. BIIIG DIFFERENCE 🇮🇪
Council tax in 2000 was £800 a year on average. Today it's over £2,000. That's up 150%. What are you getting for it? Less bins, fewer libraries, & worse roads
We aren't angry enough about how shit the phone signal is in the UK. I've been up mountains in mainland Europe and still been able to get 4 bars of signal, whereas over here I can be sat in a pub and my phone will think I'm on the fucking moon.
So the French say nigel farages plan to tunr the dinghies around and send them back to France is illegal.
But its OK for the French navy to help the dinghies to uk waters.
Bollocks. We have the right to defend our borders, fuck the French.
Restore Britain have published a 'fully costed' economic plan detailing £155.7bn of tax cuts in what seems like the most revolutionary tax plan of our lifetime:
- Personal allowance up from £12,570 to £16,000.
- 20% band extended from £50,270 to £100,000.
- Personal Allowance restored to everyone, so the 60% trap between £100,000 and £125,140 is no longer.
- Stamp duty abolished.
- Inheritance tax abolished.
- Capital Gains Tax annual exemption up from £3,000 to £20,000.
- Corporation tax 0% on the first £50,000 of profit, 19% above it.
- VAT down to 18%, registration threshold up from £90,000 to £150,000.
- Insurance premium tax, air passenger duty, emissions trading and the climate change levy, all gone.
What the headlines would mean for you:
Earn between £12,570 and £16,000 - Your entire current tax bill is wiped out
Earn £16,000 to £50,270? You save £686 a year. £57 a month.
Earn £75k: You save £5,632 a year. £469 a month.
Earn £100k: You save £10,632 a year. £886 a month.
Earn £125,140 or more, you save £15,660. £1,305 a month.
Now the parts you only find in the detail:
That £686 is flat... Exactly £686 whether you're on £17,000 or £49,000, because it comes from the allowance and not the rate.
The same happens with the cap at £15,660, so someone on £2m gets the same tax break as someone on £125,140. This is probably going to be better received than the other parts.
National Insurance isn't touched. It stays 8% up to £50,270 and 2% above. Extending the 20% band to £100k means the combined tax rate is 28% up to £50,270, then drops to 22% until £100,000. This means a £45k earner keeps 72p of their next pound whilst the £95k earner keeps 78p, an interesting choice, which I can imagine won't go down well once people realise it.
The savings set against all this are £178bn 'by 2031-32', which is their own £35bn a year figure multiplied across a Parliament to offset the £155.7bn in cuts. It looks matched... It isn't. Four of the ten lines in their tax table are identical, to the decimal point, to a single year of receipts in their own Figure 15. The cuts are annual. So there's really a £120.7bn per year hole in this 'costed' plan.
Aspirational? Definitely. Vote winning? Most certainly. Realistic? I'm not convinced.
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