Dear Jack,
The local elections confirmed the widening gap between the major
political parties and most of the people – and the urgent need for a
new movement.
That’s why it’s so important that Reform UK is now campaigning for
the forthcoming parliamentary by-election in Wakefield, West
Yorkshire. And why we need all the support you can give us.
The Conservatives lost hundreds of council seats last week. Yet
nobody else really won. Outside London, Labour made no major progress
in trying to rebuild its former ‘Red Wall’ strongholds in the North
and Midlands that were lost to the Tories in 2019.
Meanwhile the Tory ‘Blue Wall’ in the South also showed signs of
crumbling, as the vacuous Liberal Democrats and even the Greens made
gains.
These local polls have rightly been dubbed the ‘none-of-the-above’
elections. Overall, two out of three voters stayed away, unable to see
the point in voting for any of them. In parts of the North, turnout
was as low as 15%.
It’s not hard to see why people feel so disenchanted with and
distanced from mainstream politics.
To put forward the bold policy ideas that others won’t, Reform UK
is standing in the Wakefield by-election, caused by the resignation of
Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan after he was convicted of sexually assaulting
a 15-year-old boy.
We are already campaigning in support of our outstanding candidate
Chris Walsh, a ‘very proud Yorkshireman’, local gym owner and married
father of two. Chris is standing for Reform UK because ‘I care about
the area, I care about the people here, and I want my kids to grow up
in a world where they have opportunities’.
We are the only party campaigning for big tax cuts now, to
encourage the economic growth that can provide decent jobs with wages
that keep pace with inflation.
And we are the only party campaigning for the UK to rely on our own
energy – the key to real growth and ‘levelling up’. There is a fortune
in shale gas beneath our feet, if only the Tory government had the
nerve to go for it.
That must mean facing down the Green extremists and abandoning the
crazy Net Zero targets, which will leave us paying even more money for
even less energy.
Instead, the leaders of Wakefield’s Labour council have previously
boasted to the Yorkshire Post about their ‘quite positive
relationship’ working with Extinction Rebellion – the same eco-zealots
who disrupt the lives of working people by blocking our roads and
energy supplies. The deputy leader of that XR-friendly council is now
a front-runner to be Labour’s by-election candidate.
In 2016, two-thirds of voters in Wakefield voted to Leave the EU
and in 2019 they elected their first Tory since MP since 1932, hoping
for something better. Voters have been badly let down by both the
Tories and Labour. But we cannot let them get away with it. Now it’s
time to vote Reform UK to change politics for good.
That’s why I am asking for your support in the Wakefield
by-election. Please donate
what you can to Chris Walsh’s campaign. And please come and join
our campaigning Action Days, every Saturday from 10am and every Sunday
from 11am – meeting at The Holmfield Arms, Denby Dale Rd, Wakefield
WF2 8DY
For more information, or if you’re free to show support during the
week, contact [email protected]
Everything we do will help to send a message to the Westminster
elites. ‘None of the above’ is not enough. A change is coming, and
that change is Reform UK.
Many thanks,
Richard Tice
Reform
UK Leader
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