It’s a contract not a manifesto
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has launched its Contract for the people which would see a freeze on non-essential immigration, a new tax on employers who hire foreign workers and a pledge to stop the boats by taking back illegal migrants to France
All job seekers would have to accept a job within four months, or after two job offers, or lose all of their benefits
There would be patriotic curriculum in primary and secondary schools including teaching European imperialism, a cut funding to universities that undermine free speech and an option of two year degrees to cut students’ debt
Launching the party’s election pledges, Nigel Farage says “we have begun to forget who we are, what our history is and what we stand for”
There would 30,000 more full time members of the Armed Forces and an increase in defence spending to increase to three per cent of GDP within six years
Benefits would be front loaded to let parents stay at home in early years and there would be a 25 per cent transferable tax allowance for married couples as well as increasing the tax free income tax allowance to £20,000
Farage said that the NHS needed a ‘genuine radical rethink’ adding that we are not getting bang for our buck
“We cannot go on like this. We are skint. We are in real trouble. We have to have slimmed down public sector and do it by not hitting services.”
All public sector bodies would have to buy 75 per cent of their food from UK suppliers
Constitutionally the party has pledged to leave the ECHR, would introduce Proportional Representation in the House of Commons and would introduce a new Bill of Rights
The programme would be paid for
by £150billion worth of savings including the immigration tax, a benefits crack down, a cut foreign aid and scrapping net zero targets.
Responding to suggestions that Brexit has failed,Farage said that “It’s a failure of a sovereign government to implement the will of the people and indeed, its own manifesto.”
Asked if his election pledges are “a wishlist, rather than a serious plan”,Farage replied that “We are not going to be in government this time round, but we are going to provide a voice of opposition”
Following the release of the pledges,The Institute for Fiscal Studies say that the sums in this manifesto do not add up”
“Spending reductions would save less than stated, and the tax cuts would cost more than stated, by a margin of tens of billions of pounds per year”
