The U.K. currently has a political schism – of extreme left and right – each feeding off the dissatisfaction of UK residents. In addition, we have the ‘woke’ lobby, the ‘trans’ lobby and others on the left, and extreme right wingers who are anti immigation (actually anti ‘foreigners’).
And the centre left have nothing to offer – they’ve blown the money on pay rises and welfare. We can’t tax or borrow more, so it’s hard to think where growth might come from.
One idea would be to establish a new ‘consortium’ of ‘families’
Thank god it’s still normal for a lot of people to want to be in heterosexual couples, and then to have children. They want, quite reasonably, to build strong family units. Reasonable income – ‘bread on the table’ – a strong work ethic. Well brought up children with good values. Normally with tolerance being on of these values, likewise resilience.
Many of these family people work in the private sector – exposed to real life – competition – working hard to secure their and their employer’s future – not feeding off the ‘magic money tree’ in the public sector indulging ‘woke’ policies and so on.
We need to provide these families with good support – they should be seen and recognised as the backbone of our society. A tax break for marriage would be a small positive guesture.
They are inclined to work rather than look to welfare – and to reinforce this positive thinking we need to stop welfare being an easy option.
They want proactive policing – a focus on minor offences, graphiti, stealing phones, shop lifting. What you might call cleaning up society. Stopping drunken behaviour.
They want good education for their children, followed by technical and professional skills training, with job opportunities to follow. Sadly raising the minumum wage too high, and increasing employment taxes does not help.
They want a strong defence force – would probably support some kind of national service, along with strong encouragement of Reserve and similar service. They’d like to see strong bonds with the ‘old commonwealth’ countries that volunteered to fight with us in the past – alongside for example strong links to Poland and other Eastern European countries.
They understand the ‘green’ and climate change issues – but would go for a more pragmatic approach rather than a brainless idealistic one. Solar panels seem like a ‘no brainer’ – enforcing electric car quotas much less so – politicians don’t seem to live in, or understand how terraced houses and flats work, you can’t just park outside and run out a cable….
They recognise that smoking is not good, likewise excess alcohol, and that obesity is a real health issue – linked to diabetes problems. They would debate whether the NHS should be entirely free to people who don’t look after their own health.
As I write this I realise it sounds a bit like a Conservative pitch, which I guess it is.
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