'I voted Reform because I want my country back'
The Telegraph | 6 July 2024
Since the declaration of the UK General Election 2024 results, rumours have been promulgated; that the votes for Reform were a protest against the prior Conservative government, and that the reason that party are now suffering the worst defeat in their history is because they were not “centre-ground enough.”
Let me put the record straight:
“Reform is a vote for not surrendering sovereignty to global bureaucratic superstructures. I do not dream of a cashless society. I want no part of an economic forum or a European union; I am disinterested in seeing my marriage prospects being sent to die in foreign wars. I vote Reform not to see them in charge today but tomorrow.
The Reform vote is a testimony to a different memory of Britain – when children could play in streets in security and freedom and there was a well-turned-out policeman on every street corner.”
Reform asserts the necessity of telling a particular history of Britain – an ancient history of self-determination. Reform is not a protest vote but a declaration by the silent majority — our nostalgia is not built on an illusion.
Same. I want my country back.