Monday 27 May 2019

It is time for a Liverpudlian Prime Minister


I have been struggling to decide who I was going to back for the next Conservative Party leader, and then Prime Minister. 

We have the continuity May candidates of Rory Stewart, Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt. We have the Brexit candidates of Boris Johnson, Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Dominic Raab. We also have Michael Gove, plus there may be more to join the fray.

I have struggled who to back. I did always want Dominic Raab to be leader. Dominic seems to be the leader we needed to sort out Brexit and come back with a decent, conservative government with optimism at its heart. But he has let me and many others down. He has decided to near enough back HS2, keep foreign aid at its current amount, allow Huawei into our 5G network and to accept the discredited Withdrawal Agreement with some tinkering around on the backstop. This simply is not good enough and what I want in our next leader.

I want a candidate who will lower taxes and foreign aid. A leader that will connect with blue collar, Northern voters. A leader that will invest in our police. A leader that will scrap HS2. Most importantly, I want a leader who will fight our corner in Europe and leave on a WTO basis. That leader is Esther McVey. 

I have met Esther on numerous occasions as she is a constituency neighbour and I can see the dedication and passion she could bring to the role of Prime Minister. So, after much deliberation, I have decided that the next leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister should be Esther McVey, the Liverpudlian. Bless John McDonnell's heart.

Friday 24 May 2019

We must grasp this opportunity



The Conservative Party's heart can now start beating again. We now have an opportunity to choose a new leader that is not Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown mixed in female form, but someone who will deliver Brexit, and a new bold ambitious agenda for the future.

I have been critical of the Prime Minister ever since the disastrous General Election. I will not forgive her for not once visiting Cheshire, an area where we once held nearly all the seats and now only a measly some, but I must respect her. She had a level of resilience which I can never hope to have, and the dutiful way she acted as a true public servant is long to be respected by the British public.

We have had some awful Prime Ministers in our recent years. Notably some of the main ones have become Knights of the Realm, which is bizarre to myself, whom are Sir Edward Heath, Sir Anthony Eden and Sir John Major. But, Mrs. May may be close to being worse than Lord North, who lost the American colonies, on levels of incompetency.

The public must not just look at her failure to not deliver Brexit after nearly 3 years. They must recognise her failure to re-introduce grammar schools, her failure to find a sustainable solution to our social care crisis, her continual support of nanny-statist policies, and her support for continuous money for the NHS. I do struggle to find any positives from her premiership. The one vivid in my mind, however, is her robust response to the Novichok poisoning in Salisbury. This was a moment where she truly looked statesmanlike, but that did not last long.

But that is the past. We now must look to the future and grasp the opportunities we now have in front of us. I was very close to leaving the Conservative Party, and very close to believing that the Party had been irrevocably damaged that it could not come back. But it will. And it must.

We need a leader who will stand up for liberty, and free trade. Someone who believes in a meritocracy and equality of opportunity. One who will fight Marxism not with Blair-lite, but with true conservative principles. Most importantly, one that will honour the instruction of the 17.4 million people who casted their vote in favour of this great country leaving the European Union.

The candidates have not all announced for the leadership, but when they do I will make my decision officially on who to campaign and vote for. Those principles above are which I will hold them to. This country is amazing and it can do so much better than this managerial style of politics. We need a fresh Cabinet and a fresh Party to reconnect with the ordinary voter. I truly hope that we find a candidate that will do so in the weeks ahead.

I will finish by responding to the Prime Minister's comments about compromise. I did at first think she was talking about Sir Nicholas Winterton, and not Sir Nicholas Winton, who was my grandmother's late MP and friend. But her comments reminded myself of this quote from Lady Thatcher:

"If you look at the great philosophies and ideas that have moved the world; if you look at the great religions... do you think you would have ever had those great guidelines had people gone out and said, "Brothers, I believe in consensus!" Of course you wouldn't. You would have had nothing great, nothing of value." 

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Link to my letter to the Prime Minister after her speech on Tuesday 22nd: https://twitter.com/realThomasMoss2/status/1131313149846728704/


Friday 10 May 2019

As a loyal Conservative, I'll be voting Brexit Party


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The Conservative Party has failed us. Since the referendum, they have promised consistently to deliver on the referendum mandate, including a general election. We had the abomination of Chequers, we had the discredited Withdrawal Agreement, and now we have talks with the neo-Marxists of the Labour Party to cobble together a BRINO, with a customs union and alignment to the internal market. Every, and I mean every, promise from the Prime Minister and her top team has been broken.

Since the 2017 election, I have called for Mrs. May to resign, or be sacked. I heard recently that she wants to remain in power longer than Gordon Brown. The truth probably that she wants to remain in power so that she is remembered to be as terrible as Lord North.

It is a shock, as a decently loyal Conservative Party Member, to be contemplating voting against my own Party. I believe in the Party. However, it is a disgrace at the moment, and I have wrote to my local Association telling them that I will not campaign for them until Mrs. May has gone. My patience is starting to run thin and if she has not gone soon, I would not rule out leaving for good. 

The Conservative Party was the party of Thatcher and Churchill. The Party of meritocracy, equality of opportunity, a property owning democracy, having a stake in your work, lower taxes and most importantly, individual freedom and liberty. We have abandoned most of these, but it is not too late to change.

With the political picture in front of myself, my allegiance has gone on the 23rd May. I will be proudly walking to my local Community Centre, and putting a cross with my stubby pencil, for Nigel Farage, and the Brexit Party.

They are the only Party in this election who are standing up for the 52% of this country who want to leave the European Union. They believed in a deal - so did I - but I now favour an exit unto World Trade Organisation rules. There is no other way, and I will not contemplate supporting Mrs. May's surrender treaty, so this is the only way out of the lock jam. A No Deal exit is needed.

If you are a Brexiteer. If you are a Remainer, who respects democracy. If you are someone who did not vote. Take your opportunity to vote. Take your opportunity to show the established order how angry you are at their betrayal. Take your opportunity to vote for a decent candidate. Take your opportunity and vote for the Brexit Party.