Steve Roberts

The Thoughts of Chairman Dave: #TheToryParty Listen, I have been a Tory voter all my life. I voted for them throughout the Thatcher, Major, Hague, Duncan-Smith, Cameron, May, and Johnson tenures. This time, they will not be getting my vote. Here is why: For me, Margaret Thatcher was the last true conviction PM. Whether you agreed with her or disagreed with her, she stood for something and you knew what that was. She also stuck to her guns and was not afraid to be unpopular when she had to be. The net result was the saving of the UK from the disastrous Tory and Labour governments that preceded it. Unfortunately her successor John Major was anything but. Initially pretending to be all things to all men, it soon became clear that Major was a Europhile globalist with a contempt for anyone who disagreed with him. His signing of the Maastricht treaty without any public consultation was a betrayal too far, and he was at war with the party Right from that moment onwards. His loss to Tony Blair came as no surprise to anyone. To date he remains an embittered individual, forever slagging off anyone with an anti EU sentiment. The Hague and Duncan-Smith eras were just stop gaps during which neither made any impact on the Blair Government. The election of David Cameron was where things started to go badly wrong. Cameron removed the right of Tory Associations to choose their own MPs. Instead, this was given to Conservative Central Office. Liberals such as Soubry, Wollaston, Grieve, Allen were parachuted into Tory seats as part of a 'modernisation' programme. These people were not politically Tory and their presence was frankly an insult to their Tory constituents. Cameron and George Osborn were also in awe of Tony Blair deferring to him as "the Master". This confirmed their credentials as globalist liberals, following in the footsteps of Blair. When the Coalition Government took power, it was not a Tory/ Liberal government at all. It was a liberal government full stop and failed to rein in the more glaring failures of Labour. True Tory policies were MIA basically. Ironically, Cameron was undone by his own duplicity. It has come to light that his EU Referendum was something to be negotiated away as part of a future deal with Nick Clegg. Cameron obviously did not expect to win a majority! Following Cameron was Theresa May who frankly will go down in history as one of the very worst PMs of all time. May created disastrous policies such as the Modern Slavery Act, and signed us up to Net Zero by 2050. However, her undoing were her disastrous attempts to negotiate an exit treaty with the EU. A Remainer at heart, her deals tied the UK to the EU via remaining in the Customs Union, the Irish 'Backstop' etc. Multiple attempts to get it through Parliament failed and she eventually resigned. Like John Major, she remains an embittered and spiteful former PM. Like many Tory members, I voted for Boris Johnson in 2019 and was pleased to see him beat the globalist Jeremy Hunt. Johnson and David Frost had little time to negotiate a truly satisfactory Brexit deal due to the limited time remaining before the official exit, time denied to them by the antics of then Remain Parliament and Theresa May's lousy prior negotiations. In the limited time available, they did the best that they could, and while it improved on May's deal, it was still containing glaring flaws. The December election saw an 80 seat plus majority and the chance to have a truly Tory government. Unfortunately Johnson blew it. Declaring himself a liberal, he embraced 'Net Zero' and said any true Tories could go and join Reform. For me, this was a the final straw in a downward spiral for the party, and I and many others resigned our memberships at this time. Johnson conspicuously failed to read the room, underestimating the strength of the Tory Left (who hated him) and the fact that he had divided the Tory Right. Without trusted advisers (such as Eddie Lister to keep him on the straight and narrow) when a series of issues and scandals arose - Cummings, MP revelations etc, his enemies (led by Rishi Sunak) united and brought him down. Covid (and its issues) also was a major factor in Johnson's downfall. A shame, though flawed - a man of true charisma and an electoral winner. Liz Truss followed and promised an era of true Tory policies. Unfortunately like Boris Johnson, she too failed to read the room and rushed out a load of policies far too quickly without a proper costing and instead wishing to borrow to pay for them. This caused the Tory Left, their friends in the Establishment such as the BoE, her enemy Rishi Sunak's allies in the global markets to unite against her. Such was the globalist reaction against her proposed policies that even Joe Biden and the IMF joined the attack. First she lost her Chancellor and was told to take Jeremy Hunt instead. Who exactly forced Hunt on Truss is an unanswered question to this day. Then Truss herself was forced to resign and replaced by the loathsome Sunak. Like Johnson, if Truss had been guided more sensibly and had trod more warily, she might very well have survived. So now we have Rishi Sunak. A product of the WEF's 'Young Global Leader's' programme. Sunak stabbed two sitting PMs in the back so as to take the position that he always so wanted. To me the mystery is why would a man from a billionaire background take the PM job? Business opportunities and an ego trip? Undoubtedly. However, more sinister is the opportunity to implement WEF policies in the UK. His billionaire father in law owns Infosys, the multi billion company that just happens to provide the software for China's social Credit system, something that the WEF would like to implement world wide. Sunak has also removed virtually all the ministers from the Right of the party, with the exceptions of fig leaves such as Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson. Sunak and Hunt's tax policies are straight out of the Labour handbook which makes this government Labour lite. Ditto his 'Windsor Agreement' with the EU is a sell out which does not address the core issues of the Johnson/ Frost agreement. So there you have it, a downward spiral since the days of Margaret Thatcher. For the record, I could never vote for Rishi Sunak and his globalist and leftist policies. I have now walked away from the party in disgust. What do the Tories need to do to bring back their core voters? 1) Remove Sunak and Hunt and walk away from globalism. 2) Get a grip on immigration - both legal and illegal. It is far too high. Stop prioritising illegal immigrants and giving them benefits not provided by other European countries. 3) Cut back on the 'Net Zero' scam. Scrap all targets such as 2030 and 2050. 4) Implement a true Tory tax policy of low taxation for both individuals and businesses. 5) Reverse the Cameron policy and let local Associations choose their own MPs