Three months ago we achieved 5 per cent in the Tamworth by-election, with slightly less than that in Mid-Bedfordshire.
Last week we achieved 10 per cent in Kingswood where people were saying we were going to lose our deposit. And we achieved 13 per cent in Wellingborough, more than our national polling.
Every advance is a staging post in the growth of people’s understanding of what we believe and what we will do for this country and them.
I am not in politics to split the Conservative vote. There is no such thing as the Conservative vote. Voters are free to choose for which party they vote.
Ben Habib was the Reform UK candidate in the Wellingborough by-election
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When I joined Reform UK, I did so to obliterate the Tory Parliamentary Party. Well, they have beaten me to it.
Reform presents the British people with a genuine democratic choice.
The country is facing an existential threat caused entirely by the two legacy parties. They are as bad as each other.
Both have had open borders, catastrophic levels of borrowing, taxing and spending. National debt and levels of taxation have gone through the roof. We have no economic growth and the country is in recession. GDP per capita is even lower with rampant immigration undermining our workers, our public services, our wealth and social fabric. Six million people are on benefits.
They have put wealth redistribution at the heart of their economic philosophy. In so doing they have crushed vitally important aspiration in favour of dependency.
Economically, politically, socially and constitutionally, the UK has been broken.
We need a 180 degree change of direction. Only Reform UK offers that change of direction. We need to get bums on green seats so we can change the way this country is governed.
We believe in genuine small c conservative policies, cutting taxes on the working and middle classes, cutting taxes on businesses, making sure that we don’t undercut British workers with cheap imported labour, dramatically reducing immigration, stopping the boats, getting rid of the highly inflationary and economically emasculating Net Zero which is driving our economy into the ground. You do not save the planet by killing the economy.
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And, of course, ejecting the EU from Northern Ireland. We are the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Our common sense policies cut through in Wellingborough in a four-week period. Think what we could do in the General Election. 5 per cent three months ago, 13 per cent last week. Extrapolate that out and we will 100 per cent be a winning force by the time of the General Election.
Ben Habib was the Reform UK candidate in the Wellingborough by-election