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Nigel Farage Launches Reform Manifesto With Pledges to Freeze Immigration, Leave the ECHR and Scrap Net Zero

by Will Jones
17 June 2024 3:29 PM

Reform leader Nigel Farage has launched his party’s General Election manifesto with pledges to freeze “non-essential” immigration, leave the ECHR and scrap Net Zero. The Telegraph has provided a handy summary “at a glance”:

  • Migration: Freeze all non-essential immigration.
  • Stop the boats: Leave the ECHR, illegal migrants will be detained and deported, small boats will be picked up and taken back to France, set up new department for immigration.
  • NHS: Introduce tax relief of 20% on all private healthcare and insurance. All frontline NHS and social care staff would pay zero basic rate income tax for three years.
  • Tax: Lift the income tax threshold to £20,000 and the inheritance tax threshold to £2 million.
  • Going green: Scrap the Net Zero drive and green levies to bring down energy bills.
  • Spending: Save £5 in every £100 that the government spends.
  • International development: Cut foreign aid spending by 50 per cent to save £6 billion.
  • Businesses: Lift the VAT threshold to £150,000.
  • Education: Introduce a patriotic curriculum in primary and secondary schools. Ban transgender ideology in primary and secondary schools. Tax relief of 20% on all independent education.
  • Welfare: Enforce a two-strike rule for job seekers with benefits withdrawn from people who repeatedly turn down work. 

The manifesto was called “deeply unserious” by one journalist present, who suggested it would result in £141 billion in extra spending every year – much more than what Labour and the Tories are promising. Farage countered: “It is radical, it is fresh thinking, it is outside the box. It is not what you are going to get from the current Labour and Conservative parties who are virtually indistinguishable, frankly, from each other.”

Party Chairman Richard Tice argued that there were huge savings to be made in slashing £50 billion in “wasteful” Government spending.

ConservativeHome Assistant Editor William Atkinson writing in the Telegraph said that the manifesto “will strike many Tories as exactly what we should have been doing in Government these last 14 years”. “Lifting income tax thresholds. Scrapping carbon targets. Net zero migration, quitting the ECHR, and cutting NHS waiting lists to zero. What’s not to love?”

However, he joined those claiming it was a “a far from serious document”.

Farage is great at identifying problems – stifling taxes, ridiculous immigration levels, climate lunacy– but providing genuine solutions would be too much like hard work. If Reform UK ever got into power, the Sir Humphreys of the Whitehall Machine would stump him within a week. Rather than resolve Britain’s problems, he’d soon decamp from Number 10 to drown his sorrows in The Red Lion. 

So, not everyone is convinced Farage and Reform could achieve it or that it is properly costed – though the party would vehemently dispute that, of course. But most on the Right appear to agree that it gets the basics right much better than the Tories have managed over the last 14 years.

Tags: Conservative PartyECHRGeneral Election 2024ImmigrationMass immigrationNet ZeroNigel FarageReform

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago

When you ignore the climate sorcerers amazing how easy prosperity is to achieve.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

Great excellent platform.
Add: leave the UN,WHO and no more scamdemics and medical nazism

Why anyone would vote for the Convict Con party is simply ‘baffling’.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

And NATO.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

The character assassiniation of Farage by the Doddygraph for want of arguments is absolutely uncalled for. Nobody knows what he would do if he were in a position of power because he never was. All these conversative prime-ministerial mayflies of the last 14 years certainly don’t have a stellar track record an getting anything done, either.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

And after reading Farage’s mind and telling you what he’s really thinking they’ll remind you how much they love democracy and how important it is to defend it.

Apparently that involves pretending to read minds and make shit up.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

They’ve left one bit out:

How they are going to stop the establishment from manufacturing a sovereignty bond crisis to bring a hypothetical Farage government down. Like they did with Truss.

They warning shot has gone out already. It’s un “unserious” manifesto, apparently, as in you don’t seriously think we’re going to let you decide how to govern Britain, do you?

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes, but as with UKIP who challenged being in the EU and forcing Cameron into having a referendum, we hope the same kind of attack on the Establishment Political Class stich up with have a similar affect, forcing them to back off Net Zero, mass immigration and the rest of the globalist CRAP.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

The second cast iron guarantee. Something cast iron should not have to be honoured the second time the lying, Globalist, Pig shagger.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

That’s at least 5 years away, so I wouldn’t worry yet.

Also, it was the Tories who got rid of Truss, at the end of the day, not ‘the establishment’.

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Lurker
Lurker
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

No it was Andrew Bailey who did that.

Firstly by letting the LDI issue build up and then secondly by taking the action to bail it out (which coincidentally included the Bank of England’s pension scheme) without making clear it was already going down the pan before the mini budget ever happened

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Which Tories? Not the membership. The MPs. So basically the establishment Tories.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes from what I remember the markets changed a few days before that infamous budget that she gets blamed on. World Bank & IMF were handing out shed loads of cash and trying to bribe others for Lockdowns in 2020, see Belarus.

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

That model has failed. Remember when they thought they could bring down Russia in 2 weeks. If you have fortitude the evil empire can be overcome.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  wokeman

If you have the lowest national debt to GDP ratio in the world by a long margin like Russia does, then you cam stand up to anyone. The vast reserves of pretty much every natural resource necessary also helps a lot.

The Russian government also don’t have a bureaucratic establishment sabotaging it. Or at least it doesn’t seem to.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Churchill is on record for having stated that he’d eventually have given in to US debt blackmail in 1956 but not before the invasion of Egypt had reached its military objectives. Roll over and die is never the only choice, just frequently the most hassle-free one for members of a ruling caste whose most pressing real-world problem is that there are no real-world problems and no real-world problems have been heard of in the family since about 1860 or so, when the last guy who was forced to do more than collect interest for a living died.

Russia has been locked into a not exactly successful war with a country that – technically – isn’t a even regional power for two years now and that’s not because it’s really the unstoppable juggernaut.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Well it is pretty obvious that if you don’t want to be fleeced by the Climate Industrial Complex, pay a third of your wages on energy, need to sit all winter with a blanket over you to watch the telly, can’t afford to get to Tenerife cause it will set you back 4 grand, find your paying 20 quid for a Ribeye, your perfectly good petrol car taxed off the road, you cannot go anywhere in the city anymore or it will cost you 20 quid a trip, you are coerced into getting rid of your great gas central heating and the dynamic pricing via your smart meter means you simply cannot afford to switch on washing machine or an oven then ——————–VOTE REFORM. The only party with the guts to challenge the technocrats at the UN and WEF and get rid of Eco Socialism called NET ZERO.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

What Tele? It won’t work when the power goes off.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
1 year ago

I joined today.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago

I’m now a single issue voter as far as net zero is concerned. I’m a double issue voter if you consider anti-wokeness, but he was probably wise to omit that.

They’re getting my vote this time round. Nobody else can be remotely trusted on anything, and at least Nigel talks about the problems openly rather than glib, flip-flopping soundbites.

The government is funding everything with debt, so all promises by all parties are basically unfunded or will increase the tax burden.

Lockdown/furlough etc at £400bn

What’s the bill for benefits , food, hotel costs for illegal immigrants?

It’s disingenuous to expect a minor party to know what everything will cost. They’re not likely to govern anyway, at least not this time round. Anyway, incumbents are always equally vague and often dishonest even when they have access to the full data. Does Nigel?

The credit cards are maxed out. The interest payments are eye-watering, especially as rates are higher than in the last 20 years.

I’m tempted to accumulate a stash of gold coins and bury them in my garden.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

And the Petro Dollar in its death throws.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
1 year ago

What’s missing is a programme for repatriation of unwanted immigrants. At a stroke this will solve a lot of problems, principally the high cost of housing and low wages in less skilled jobs.

If you are reading Nigel, I suggest:

  1. Immediate postponement of all nationality and permanent residency applications for at least a year, until new criteria are worked out for the awarding of such. For those I’d suggest:
  2. Swiss style stringent criteria for nationality, including proof of cultural assimilation. No automatic nationality for persons born here.
  3. Similar conditions for permanent residency. Must be financially self supporting. No history of taking benefits, or criminality (obviously)
  4. All future immigrants must take an IQ style test and find themselves in top 40% (say) of distribution. They should come from a nation/people with a good track record of immigration. Free immigration for ultra-high skilled/aptitude immigrants (top 2% by IQ).
  5. No benefits of any kind for non-nationals. A radical idea is for nationals to pay a negative income tax on first £X of income. That is, employer pays £10 and worker receives £3 top up from government. The purpose of this is to make employing non-nations expensive.

To be honest, I’m not entirely comfortable with all of this as it goes against my libertarian instincts, but the dial needs moving back.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Your ideas would fail and PDQ. There can be no tribunals as these would clog up in no time. Can you imagine the fun the legal classes would have with this? And the expense? On top of which there would be woketard civil servants causing mayhem at every turn.

As I posted earlier the only way to deal with the immigration issue is to stop it and then to start shipping out what we’ve got. No halfway measures. Brutal I know but this is my country.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The BBC were reporting on that Italian migrant boat disaster a few years ago. Maybe they are getting ready for some sort of Psyop with the growing support for Reform.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I would be on board with “shipping out”. Having recently visited my brother in Wolverhampton, I think I would “ship out” half of the city, but you and I know the leftist Palestinian supporting planet saving mob would scream blue murder and there would be courts full of Progressives all over it.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

Just scrapping Nut Zero and the associated levies will save billions. Putting a stop to immigration will save millions even before we start shipping out repatriation.

The only bit I vehemently disagree with is the aim to cut foreign aid. Stop it immediately, all of it. Until this country has cured all its problems we have no funds for other countries.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

And we still give to India & China, can someone explain why? If it is some sort of diplomatic bribe it ain’t working.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Tribute payments? That’s what these kind of money transfers would have been called in earlier times.

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

William Atkinson’s article in the Telegraph was rightly lambasted by every reader/ commenter. In summary; spiteful, puerile, lefty and wrong. The Telegraph are ‘going down the tubes’ regarding their anti-Farage bias and have been for some time.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

At last a political party that will do what the ordinary citizens want, judging by the massive support for Reform in the comments sections of various media.

Wouldn’t it be fun if all the polls were wrong, and Reform won by a landslide? We need a political tsunami to wash away all the corruption and betrayal of the last few decades. Maybe it will happen. No one was expecting Brexit, either, but there is was next morning. Pardon the French…

17 Million F*ck Offs – A Song About Brexit – YouTube

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john1T
john1T
1 year ago

To quote Robert Malone
The Conservative Party in the UK is no longer conservative and needs to be replaced. And at this point, Mr. Farage is the only person who can take out the WEF trash!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  john1T

He doesn’t talk about the WEF nearly enough. An open goal, on the other hand for those not awake he would come across tin foil perhaps.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

“Scrap the Net Zero drive and green levies to bring down energy bills”

So we would withdraw from the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Act. Because to withdraw from something you have to correctly identify what you are withdrawing from. Net 0 is short from the above.

How about throw in free training for the shortage or Drs & Nurses.

Also, to defeat the Sir Humphries, Whitehall swamp should be drained and patriotic staff employed.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

I suppose “deeply unserious” makes a change from “far right racist dangerous to democracy” but translated into plain English it’s just another way of saying “I don’t like this and I’m worried it will be popular “

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

It would surely be the first task of a reforming government to put Sir Humphrey back in his box or out to pasture with no NED contracts.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

So desperate are the Globalists to get their preferred candidate, Nigerian Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke elected, that they have been digging in the archives of her Reform Party opponent’s historical online comments, searching for something to force him to stand down, and here’s the best they could come up with, feeble as it is:

The 71-year-old St.Clair-Armstrong, who is challenging business secretary Kemi Badenoch in the constituency of North West Essex, posted on a blog called the Joli Triste in 2010: “I could weep now, every time I pick up a British newspaper and read the latest about the state of the UK,” The Times reports. ““No doubt, Enoch Powell would be doing the same if he was alive. My solution … vote BNP!”, he added.

His comments were found in an archived version of the Joli Triste website, which has since been changed. According to The Times, other blog posts included racial slurs and a joke about “female hormones”. Oh my, the outrage!

For this normal expression of his right to Freedom of Speech, expressing the despair that Reform supporters have felt for years, he has now been unjustly forced to resign, even though he apologised, thus handing the election to the Nigerian Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, who thinks she should be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

This same bog-standard Globalist tactic was used to shoehorn Sunak into power, by forcing all other candidates to stand down. This is more like the concept of democracy in the Third World.

Last edited 1 year ago by Heretic
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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

Nigel and Richard should have staunchly supported their own candidate St.Clair-Armstrong, brushing off his remarks from 15 years ago, by pointing out, as Nigel did to an abrasive female reporter questioning his sudden U-turn decision to stand,
“Haven’t you ever changed your mind?”

They need to stand firm, and stop letting their enemies block Reform candidates, as they have already done several times. It’s like letting criminals select the jury members by blocking any they think will convict them. It is a total travesty.

St.Clair-Armstrong’s name is still on the ballot, and all they have to do is announce that they have changed their minds, and refuse to accept his resignation.

Last edited 1 year ago by Heretic
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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

Dear Nigel Farage & Richard Tice, please don’t leave the people of North West Essex without any Reform candidate to vote for, as so many voters across the country were left without any UKIP/Brexit Party candidate to vote for last time, to their despair.

Let the voters decide whether they want to vote for your Reform candidate St.Clair-Armstrong or not. If they are offended by his comments from 15 years ago, then they don’t have to vote for him. But it seems grossly unfair to force him to withdraw and deprive them of the chance to vote for Reform, while handing the election to the Globalist Manchurian Candidate Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, now called Kemi Badenoch.

It makes it seem like a stitch-up deal has been done.

Last edited 1 year ago by Heretic
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Clint72
Clint72
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

I will still be voting for him.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  Clint72

Fantastic! Well done to you for standing steadfast, and not abandoning your principles for “tactical voting”. I hope many other patriotic Essex folk will join you.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

This is what the indigenous want & need ! If it’s real Swear him in NOW ! F-ck the election !!!…

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago

Who else recalls Cameron campaigning on “Scrap the Green shit”?

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago

I also recall “Bonfire of the Quango’s” resulted in ever more Quango’s!

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
1 year ago

Here is a good question: who is the most successful Conservative since Thatcher?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

If anybody maybe Andrew Bridgen otherwise I don’t recognise a Conservative since Thatcher let alone a successful one.

If you are asking about the most successful conservative then of course Nigel Farage.

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AynRandyAndy
AynRandyAndy
1 year ago

Freeze all non-essential immigration

No incomer is essential.

I’ll make an exception for Eva Vlaardingerbroek.

Last edited 1 year ago by AynRandyAndy
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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  AynRandyAndy

Wink!

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Jackthegripper
Jackthegripper
1 year ago

Cancelling net-zero would easily save a few hundred billion.

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FJG
FJG
1 year ago

huge similarities between this and Liz Truss. Let’s just hope he would go a little slower and achieve the aims without the Bank of England messing it up.

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
1 year ago

Atkinson’s piece was certainly a “far from serious document”.

He appeared to be arguing that after 14 years of Conservative government, the country is now not a democracy, and instead the civil service decides what policies to pursue. And that’s why we should all vote Conservative again. Or something.

He got ratioed in the comments under his article.

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beaniebean
beaniebean
1 year ago

So the Telegraph writer believes “the Sir Humphreys of the Whitehall Machine would stump him within a week”. He stands a much bette chance of opposing them than any of the other parties! He is also the only party leader committed to investigating Covid vaccine side effects and excess deaths and pulling out of the WHO unless it is substantially changed.

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RJBassett
RJBassett
1 year ago

When you read the original story in the DT by Atkinson he comes across as a sixth form Tik Tok hack.

Then turn to the comments and they are overwhelmingly negative as Atkinson is broadly and rightly reviled.

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Old Brit
Old Brit
1 year ago

Scrapping Net Zero is the best bit. That would really boost the economy

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