Adam Garrie, UKIP's culture spokesman, explains why UKIP is the party for those who think "things are bad and deserve to get better"...
If you believe that everything in Britain is fine, if you believe that the country has improved since Anthony Blair’s reign of terror, if you believe that you are safer and freer than you once were, if you believe future generations will become more prosperous than those of the past, you needn’t read on. But if you believe that things are bad and deserve to get better, do not merely read on but explore all of UKIP’s policies as outlined in plain English on this website.
This is an age when decent, peaceful people are afraid to express themselves in a country that was once the freest in human history. This is an age where a de-facto “social credit” system determines one’s economic fortunes in a country that once led the world with a free market system that by definition is tolerant of personal differences and embracing of market place diversity. This is an age where the voices, music and art of the United Kingdom are cancelled, but the shrieks of globalist pet projects are never far from a microphone.
This is an age where devolution has created political and social sectarianism across the land. The country’s great cities are closed for everyone apart from the criminal element and oligarchs from the four corners of the earth. Ordinary people with ordinary lives have been shut up and shut out. The silent majority is now the silenced majority. All the while, Brexit remains unfinished business and mass migration is the crisis that no mainstream politicians have the desire (let alone the will) to solve.
Things are bad but they can and must improve. The United Kingdom is unique insofar as all of the solutions to her problems can be found in an examination of the country’s past. This was once a country of free speech, of free enterprise and free expression. It was a place where unlike so many European countries, the police officer was a friend and ally of honest men and women, not someone who presumed that every passer by was guilty of something or another. It was a place where a Christian sense of fairness reigned supreme. It was a place where logic dictated that one of the most overcrowded countries in Europe cannot possibly function as a receptacle for every lost soul and ambitious youth of the world.
How different such a place was from what we see today. Today, the pagan faith of wokery is used to beat down the ordinary man and woman whilst the pollical elite revel in a censorious environment where their own misdeeds are deemed to be above criticism.
We must return to a spirit of community over collectivism. We must embrace common sense over faddist globalist ideologies. We must support the individual against the mob rather than the other way round. We must realise that social peace can only derive from social freedom and we must realise that the more convoluted the law becomes, the less order we shall see.
Rather than re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, we must christen a study and familiar ship, one that can sail the country towards the broad, sunlit uplands about which Sir Winston Churchill spoke during a time that the country’s darkest hour became her “finest hour”