The message of Conservatism

Conservatives believe people should keep more of their own money to spend on themselves and their families. We want to help people on their individual journeys to success and greater prosperity. We want government to make life easier for all those who can make their own way in the world, with lower tax  rates and sensible rules. We want to live in a successful economy where low tax rates generate more tax revenue from  the extra incomes and business they bring. Then we can be  generous to those who need help and cannot earn their own living and  we can afford  great quality public services. We want everyone to have the opportunity to own their own home. We would like  many to own a share in the business they work for or be able to set up a business of their own. Government should not tell people how to live their lives, but should help people with great education and with public order.

          It was refreshing, exciting to hear the new Prime Minister put all this across in the language of today’s age and for today’s challenges. How right she was to draw the stark contrast between those who glue themselves to the roads to stop people getting to work or to prevent ambulances getting to patients, and those who leave home early in the dark to ensure the rest of us have milk, bread and emergency services that morning. How correct to contrast the politicians who want to prevent us getting out more of our own gas with the needs of the rest of us who have gas boilers and want to keep our families warm  over the winter.

         There is indeed an anti growth coalition. It is a coalition which despises all those who go out to work in the private sector to make and deliver life’s necessities and to keep our utilities running. It sees the businesses that supply  us with clean water, heating fuels and broadband as the enemies that should be taxed  more then nationalised. When they were nationalised they were starved of investment as it all had to compete with the cash demands of the NHS. The anti growth protesters  seek to impede or prevent new homes, new factories and above all new energy supplies , whilst backing ever more illegal economic migrants  who of course will need new homes, and more utility supply to have a decent life here.

           The protesters who try to disrupt the lives of those who work hard to keep our society functioning are backed by an army of left wing party politicians. They include the nationalists that want to bust our country apart. They  use devolved government not to help their electors but to grandstand against the national government. They include the Lib Dems who do  not ever want us to get out more of our own  oil, gas or coal. They  blocked more nuclear power as well when in government . They  would leave us without heating or hot water on days when the wind does not blow. They of course include the Labour party, bound to the Trade Unions who think now is a good time to engineer as many strikes as possible. These strikes on the railways threaten their own members jobs. The railway needs more passengers, not less, to generate the extra fare revenue  to be able to pay their wages. Striking means more people do without the trains  so  more trains run empty yet the Unions expect yet more subsidy for a service people do not want to use or are prevented from using

          To Liz Truss Conservatism is allied to freedom and fairness. She is right that we need a new balance in policy between those who do and those who complain. We need to let all those who turn up for work, undertake the training and look for promotion to keep more of what they earn. We need to say No, not give in, to all those who want to block every new private sector idea, impede the new investments, the new mines and gas wells, the new fields of food and new factories to make products for the NHS and other customers. The world does not owe the UK a living. We are too dependent on imports and therefore on the goodwill and loans of foreigners. The new UK can be a shining example of enterprise and freedom, where people will want to invest more and create more jobs, because we have a government that believes in the power of enterprise to help people to more prosperous lives.