The country is living beyond its means. We are spending more than we are earning; and this means that the cost of living crisis for working people is getting worse.
- People want to be told the truth, not given more false promises.
- We can’t just keep increasing taxes; record taxes are already making life too hard for people. Businesses are closing. There are no new jobs. And we can’t keep borrowing more; we are already spending more on debt interest than we do on defence or education.
- We can’t assume that Labour's bungled tax rises will deliver the higher economic growth we need will come to our rescue.
- Because we tell the truth, we accept that some of the blame for not fixing these longstanding problems lies with the Conservatives. The pandemic hit every country; but nonetheless we made mistakes and should have acted faster to start putting it right.
- Now we must make it easier for the makers, the people who work hard, create wealth and jobs, deliver frontline public services; in the past we’ve allowed too many people to be takers not makers.
The Conservative Party is under new Leadership, there are solutions and it doesn’t have to be this way.
None of the solutions are easy; but the sooner there’s a government willing to grip them the quicker the results will come. Meanwhile Labour are making things worse and Keir Starmer sums up everything that’s wrong with politics. We have four more years of this.
- First, Britain needs to be a place that values makers – that means the person who starts a small business and creates new jobs as well as those who work hard to deliver our public services. We must encourage investment in jobs and growth, not tax and suffocate it.
- Second, we need real welfare reform: so we must help and incentivise takers to become makers.
- Third, government must justify every pound it spends of taxpayers’ hard-earned money. People and communities can often get better results when they do things themselves, and our school reforms showed that new approaches can improve outcomes so the answer isn’t always spending more taxpayers’ money. We’ve shown that we can cut out waste – we can do it again.
We will draw a line in the sand – because we can’t work half the year for the taxman, while half the country doesn’t work at all. We are going to turn takers into makers.
We will unpick Labour’s damage and fix their mistakes.
We’ll be honest about the challenges, and by showing that they can be faced, we will start to restore hope and leave a legacy for the next generation. Hope for the future can be built on truthfulness and realism.