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Stout Yeoman's avatar

Without a detailed program and manifesto a government cannot discipline its own MPs or the House of Lords when push back comes. Nor can the civil service be resisted unless the policy they are obliged to implement is spelled out in a manifesto.

Party management ham strung Tory MPs and is beginning to effect Labour even with its large majority. Reform have discovered it with a mere 5 MPs. If they ever achieved a majority with 327+ new, inexperienced MPs with no realistic knowledge about what being in government is really like then expect them to be battling themselves as well as the civil service, the judiciary, NGOs, the media, and supra-national bodies and other governments such as Ireland weaponising the Belfast Agreement.

There is a legislative program - in theory - that must include repeal of the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005 as well as the HRA and leaving the EHCR. Pursuit of this will require very detailed analysis, and careful sequencing and careful phasing amid serious politics over devolution.

At present there is no sign that Reform has the intellectual depth to design a realistic program for government. By 2029 the state of the economy may be such that it becomes their first priority and may well consume then to be its only priority. I doubt what needs to be done can be achieved in one term.

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Richard Bevan's avatar

Could it be that the intention of mass immigration was always to transfer wealth from ordinary taxpayers to the immigration industrial complex? The nefarious actors that benefit such as Serco and Capita, have a much firmer grip on the strings of the civil service than any politician has ever had.

Until this insidious relationship is exposed and accepted as the cause of the problem, few politicians will have the stomach or the wherewithal for the fight. These are dark actors and the stakes are high.

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