"National recovery means that we must fundamentally change the way this country is governed"
Telegraph: 22nd March 2025: Former Conservative and later Reform MP, Douglas Carswell, spells out why a full reset is necessary and details his plan to reset the UK.
"Britain is in a pitiful condition. Our economy is faltering, burdened by high taxes and excess regulation. Public services no longer serve the actual public. Culturally, we are coming apart, strained by mass immigration, a crumbling sense of identity, and a demographic transformation so swift it risks making our country unrecognisable... a consequence of abysmal policy, inept leadership, and an administrative class that has lost all accountability to the people it claims to represent...
...For the past three decades, Britain has endured an ideological onslaught, a revolution cloaked as progress. Men, we have been told, can become women. The ancient legal principle of equality under the law has been cast aside, with those holding certain “protected characteristics” treated preferentially.
Today, state bodies are required to tilt the scales against white Britons under the guise of “equality”. People have been sent to prison for their privately expressed opinions.
Our history, once a source of pride, is being rewritten. The country that produced Shakespeare, Newton, Brunell and Austen is not allowed any claim to exceptionalism, other than exceptional wickedness. Young people in Britain, a nation that led the fight to abolish to slave trade, are taught we were its chief practitioners. Films and books are no longer produced not to entertain but to lecture and scold.
Over the past generation, our elites have not just politicised culture and our past but turned our democracy into a technocracy, with power devolved to unelected “experts”. [It is not] enough to list a menu of policies that we wish to see implemented. If any of the required policy prescriptions are to be implemented, we first need to be prepared to radically change the way that our country is run. The resistance to reform from the administrative state will be fierce. The activism of an obstructive judiciary will be intense. To save Britain from further decline, we need a plan to deal with both..."
... These are the nine ‘milestones’ (under which are grouped the 34 specific policy steps):
1. Securing Control Over Public Administration
2. Securing Control Over Borders
3. Undoing the Blairite Legislative Legacy
4. Unleash Growth
5. Reduce Public Spending
6. Tax Cuts
7. Public Sector Reform
8. Strengthening Defence, Realign Foreign Policy
9. Remigration & Integration
FULL ARTICLE (INCLUDES MORE DETAIL ON NINE POINTS ABOVE)