Conservatives Launch Petition, Voters Want Cuts & Crisis Continues
Conservatives Launch Petition, Voters Want Cuts & Crisis Continues
Tory Members to vote for the next Party Chairman?
Campaign For Chairman Election
The Conservative Democratic Organisation have launched a campaign for Tory members to decide who the Party’s next Chairman is.
Unsurprisingly many members are not exactly thrilled that their votes for Liz Truss to become Party Leader resulted in Rishi Sunak taking over soon after, this time without a membership vote.
Now the CDO are pushing for members to at least have a say over who the next Chairman of the Party will be.
As Conservative Peer Lord Cruddas has explained:
“It’s one small step for the PM one giant leap for the Party constitution. It would show that the Leader is supporting the members and has their best interests at heart.”
With the Tory Party way behind in the polls to Labour and Reform UK rising, the leadership would be wise to listen to grassroots Conservatives.
Cut Taxes
No doubt that the Truss plan was poorly delivered and the capitulation that followed was shambolic.
But a proper conservative, tax-cutting agenda has massive public support.
Redfield and Wilton’s latest research shows a a majority of voters would support the Government going ahead with tax cuts in the next budget. Just 11% are opposed.
Support for such an agenda is surging as well. The percentage of people who think the Government should now lower taxes has increased by 12 points from November to January.
Only 10% of the public want to see the Government now raise taxes even further.
There is plenty of room for tax cuts: scrap the BBC Licence Fee, shrink the massive foreign aid budget and tackle the ballooning cost of HS2.
Boats Crisis Continues
Still no prospect of the Government advocating an ECHR exit, still the illegal migrant boats cross from France.
Yesterday saw a further 189 people on 5 boats cross in a single day.
That means 1,000+ people have crossed already in 2023. The Government’s talk of a plan is not stopping the boats.
Talk of tax cuts is largely centred on income tax but the Government has its hands in our pockets every day in every way; VAT, fuel, stamp duty, capital gains, interest tax, alcohol and cigarettes, business rates, local taxes, road tax, insurance levy and on and on. On top of that we have National Insurance tax and the cancellation of tax breaks, such as red diesel and electric car tax and many others over the years. I wonder how much of our money actually is tax free? Because everything we spend is also taxed via the company we bought goods and services from. Governments are exceeding their brief all over the first
world as they decide in ever greater detail how we will live our lives and what our priorities are, their thirst for money can never be quenched.
OT. Richard Tice vs Andrew Bridgen. The anti vax people are saying they won't support Rreform now. Thoughts?