I have decided to stand for Reform UK, the new name for the Brexit Party, as I am dismayed at how the Conservatives have handled: the economy, our NHS, immigration, housing, and prematurely implementing Net Zero.
Meanwhile, during the COVID pandemic, the Government wasted: £37 billion budgeted for a track and trace system that never worked; issued COVID loans without attempting to prevent or detect fraud; and issued PPE contracts that made outrageous profits for their supporters.
The Government allowed over one million legal migrants into the UK in 2022 and has made no attempt to stop migrants from crossing the Channel (now at over 100,000) by illegal means. High levels of immigration increase the demand for housing and increase house prices and rents.
Our NHS is failing because far too few British doctors are being given the opportunity to train here. The Government prefers to recruit nurses from abroad to resolve the nurse shortage created by their abolition of bursaries that must be reinstated.
Wasteful Tory spending, including the £100 billion on HS2 has increased the National Debt from 50% to 100% of GDP, which we as taxpayers must pay back with interest, so stunting economic growth while pursuing a Net Zero policy that will make us net poorer.