The New Conservative Party 

A week may indeed be a long time in politics, but if recent events are anything to go by it’s also roughly the life expectancy of a conservative Home Secretary in the Rishi Sunak era of non-conservatism. Yes Suella Braverman is out, after she suicidally refused to lie about the extent of two-tier policing, the violence of the hate marchers, and the need for Britain to leave the ECHR. Most unfortunately for the PM, she has been proved right on every point highlighted in her resignation letter, including the Supreme Court’s red card for Rwanda – which leaves Sunak’s leadership frailer than Jeremy Corbyn’s hopes of dodging old friends at the next Hamas swingers convention.

With the Tories now little more than the party of inertia, and the Labour Party taking instruction from Hamas rather than Keir Starmer (see Wednesday’s defiance and frontbench resignations over the proposed Gaza ceasefire), the British electorate deserves an alternative. The Reform Party certainly shows promise, but it currently lacks the galvanism of Nigel Farage – which means that here at TNC we’re going to have to do things ourselves. Perhaps we should call ourselves ‘The New Conservative Party’ – the ‘new’ part being, we’d actually be conservative.

Call me naïve, but I don’t believe it’s ever been easier to garner 50% of the vote in a nation like Britain, with the major players all standing for the lie they think will attract the most votes. By telling the truth and simply fulfilling the public’s wishes, I believe any sensible party could get over the line comfortably. Bearing that in mind, here is The New Conservative’s ten-point, no frills plan to turn Britain around before it’s too late:

1. Sovereignty

The first duty of any government is to protect the citizenry from the enemy without; that means sealing the borders and turning off the immigration tap immediately. For the past 13 years, we have been given myriad excuses why this is not possible: the intricacies of international law, the Rwanda plan requiring the official go-ahead, the Border Force refusing to police the Channel, the French refusing to police the Channel, even the Royal Navy refusing to police the Channel. Fortunately, here at TNC we couldn’t give two shits about the niceties of international law. There is no need for a Rwanda contingency, and there never was. Come Monday morning under a TNC administration, both the Navy and the Border Force would be deployed in the Channel, waiting to intercept and drag the first batch of Abdul and Abdullah’s back to France – let’s at least have the French earn their half a billion quid, before pissing it away on microwaves and phone chargers.  Any Navy / Border Force personnel not fully on-board with that can merrily seek employment elsewhere. 

As Suella Braverman has pointed out, it has always been possible to introduce emergency legislation to deal with the problem of illegal immigration – Sunak has simply failed to implement it. But even if that were not the case, so what? Are we really to be held to ransom and subject to indefinite invasion, because of foreign courts and human rights lawyers? What’s worse – the snobbish disapproval of the international community, or being overrun by the finest criminals the free market can supply? Let Strasbourg sue us – the hard-won freedoms Brexit secured in 2016 unequivocally demand that the sole determining authority of Britain rests with the British people and their elected representatives (admittedly, representatives whose hearts have never quite been in it).

Immigration is unquestionably the number one priority for the British public, and dealing with it effectively would resolve many of the nation’s other problems. Crime would be greatly reduced; over-demand for services would be ameliorated, thereby rebalancing the housing market, as well as relieving the impact of overpopulation on public services such as healthcare and education.

2. The Civil Service

While the enemy without is usually easy to identify, the enemy within is a trickier customer. Since the days of Yes Minister, the Civil Service, aka ‘The Blob’, has long been suspected an enemy of democracy and by extension the British people. Now, instead of mere suspicions that the service was undermining Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, we have it on record. Here is the recent testimony of an anonymous Home Office official:

Home Office officials have a moral and legal duty to do everything in their power to deliver the Government’s priorities on immigration. Political impartiality is a central tenet of the civil service code, but this has morphed into a culture of “stewardship”, as our permanent secretary Matthew Rycroft openly admitted in 2021 (when he was recorded telling colleagues there is no need to “slavishly” follow government policy on diversity). 

What this means in practice is accepting the bien pensant view that immigration cannot and should not be controlled, overruling the instructions of ministers and thereby their democratic mandates, with many of my colleagues viewing their role as being part of the resistance to what they see as a radical Right-wing Government determined to ignore the rules to punish innocent migrants. This culture of defiance is so widespread that any suggestion of border controls is sneered at or ignored. 

The Civil Service is clearly out of control. If it is actively working against the government of the day, and by extraction against the will of the British people, then there is only one choice: mass redundancies and restructuring, until such time as those that remain remember their oaths of office. You can be a political activist, or you can be a pen-pusher for the government – you should never be able to do both without automatically activating your P45.

3. Law & Order

In much the same fashion as the Civil Service, the police have clearly morphed into the worst kind of sixth-form debating society, which finds the traditional definition of crime distasteful – as we observed at the latest ‘pro-Palestine’ protest in central London. The Old Bill are now frankly an embarrassment, as they tiptoe around the scumbags desecrating our war memorials, while quite literally putting the boot in to the native, white population. The police need to get back to first principles: stop inventing new (hate) crime, and return to policing without fear or favour: eco loons smashing the place up, jail; jihadis calling for ‘death to the Jews’ on our streets, jail; stop and search implemented and anyone caught with a zombie knife, jail. Those not up to the task should be dismissed, and advised to pursue the career as a social worker to which they are clearly more suited. That includes of course, Chief wet-wipe Sir Mark Rowley.

4. Prisons

With an ever-increasing proportion of the British population clearly favouring the ‘go-to jail’ side of the Monopoly board, as a benign country we must accommodate them in any way we can. As prison places are heavily oversubscribed, it is obvious that our new devotees to crime should be housed on prison ships until such time as they can be returned to their motherland. Don’t like it, don’t commit the crime; better yet, don’t break the law to come here in the first place.

5. The Armed Forces

More than any other arena, the Armed Forces are no place for diversity, equality and inclusion – we don’t need quotas for ethnic minorities and a ‘gender-balanced human security force’, even if that would keep Lisa Nandy happy. The British Army’s motto has always been ‘Be the best’ – and that means men; not women, and those unsure of what their dangly bits signify. It’s time to man up, or ship out.

6. Wokery

The only legitimate criteria for employment is the best candidate for the job, and no publicly-funded body should be subject to quotas, or even recognise a diversity, equality, inclusion policy. While private companies are of course free to make themselves less competitive, any government body which believes the selection process is aided by the filter of race, religion or gender should be subject to a major overhaul. The NHS’s job for instance is healthcare; that should remain its sole remit. There should be zero diversity officers, and no doctors asking men if they are pregnant. Education similarly, needs to go back to the blackboard. Teachers should teach the three R’s, not the 100 genders. 

And finally, the wokest of them all the Mayor of London should have his office permanently revoked. The mayoralty is an utterly pointless role, leaving the capital at odds with the government rather than in-sync with it. This is in no way to dispute Sadiq Khan’s considerable abilities to tweet and pose for selfies, but he would be better served doing so on his own dime; and so, incidentally, would London.

7. The Fifth Column: Islam

For decades now, Britain has been the go-to destination for jihadis who favour a soft touch from the state. That emboldened force is now visible on the streets of London, thinly-disguising ‘death to the Jews’ as a cry for peace. Such behaviour must no longer be tolerated. The violence, the two-tier policing, the incitement, the naked aggression, and the still operational grooming gangs must be shut down for good. We can build as many prisons as you need lads.

8. Transgenderism

Whatever gets you through the day as an adult and doesn’t hurt anyone else, you are obviously free to pursue. However, leave the kids alone. It’s not your toddler’s job to make you more marketable to your Instagram friends (who hate you anyway), by passing them off as ‘non-binary’. If children genuinely wish to pull their plonkers off, let them do so when they reach adulthood – by which time, they’ll undoubtedly have found a superior use for them anyway.

9. Net Zero

The UK is responsible for less than 1% of global CO2 emissions. If everyone in Britain spent the next 100 years sitting in the dark, freezing their arses off and drinking their own piss, it wouldn’t make the blindest bit of difference – except to make us even less competitive than we already are. No serious government in Britain should even have a policy on ‘Net Zero’. If the Greta Thunberg’s and the Just Stop Oil’s of the world are genuinely concerned about the climate, perhaps they should take their schtick over to China for the weekend; let us know how you get on chaps.

10. Free Speech

More than any other metric, the erosion of free speech is damning for a functioning democracy. Shame on all those institutions and individuals who labour to cancel people with whom they disagree. With the obvious caveats to incitement, free speech should and must be inviolable. Don’t like something someone says about you – that’s not a ‘hate crime’, it’s what we used to call ‘tough shit’. Deal with it.

While the above list is by no means exhaustive, it would go a long way to putting Britain back on the road to being a serious country. Neither would significant progress require a five-year term to achieve. Were TNC to stand on such a ticket, we would guarantee definite achievements within the first year, and offer a general election either way at the end of that time, as a pledge of good faith. If you’d like to vote for such a party, please put your name below. We’ll get back to you when we’ve got a million signatories.

Frank Haviland is the Editor of The New Conservative, and the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West.

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