FOR 25 years, I was proud to call myself a Conservative.
Fourteen of those years, I served as an MP. I even sat at the Cabinet table twice.
The TimesSir Jake Berry has defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK[/caption]
Getty‘With Nigel Farage leading, we’ve got someone the country can actually trust’, says Sir Jake[/caption]
I believed in it. I gave it everything. Because I thought politics could still make this country better.
But let’s not kid ourselves. Britain is broken. Our streets are completely lawless. Migration is out of control.
Taxes are going through the roof. And day after day, I hear from people in my community and beyond who say the same thing — “This isn’t the Britain I grew up in.” And they’re right.
It didn’t start with Labour. The Conservative governments I was part of share the blame.
We now have a tax system that punishes hard work and ambition.
We face seeing record numbers of our brightest and best people leaving Britain because they can’t see a future here.
Fighting for Britain
At the same time, our benefits system is pulling in the world’s poor with no plan for integration and no control over who comes in.
No leadership. No direction. No backbone.
If you were deliberately trying to wreck the country, you’d be hard-pressed to do a better job than the last two decades of Labour and Tory rule.
Some people are giving up. Not me. I’m staying. And I’m fighting.
Fighting for the Britain I want my kids, and one day, my grandkids, to grow up in.
Not a Britain in decline, but a Britain that believes in itself again.
Old Westminster politics has failed. But there’s a better way.
I’ve always believed that change comes with challenging the old order. In shaking up the system when it isn’t working
Sir Jake
Millions of people, just like me, want a country they can be proud of again.
The only way we get that is with Reform in government.
That’s why I’ve resigned from the Conservative Party. I’m now backing Reform UK and working to make them the next party of government.
Why? Because I’ve always believed that change comes with challenging the old order. In shaking up the system when it isn’t working.
I believed “levelling up” would be that change. I believed Boris’s 2019 landslide would finally deliver it.
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PA‘I’m fighting for the Britain I want my kids, and one day, my grandkids, to grow up in’, says the former Tory[/caption]
People in towns like Blyth, Bolton, Burnley, they put their trust in us.
They were crying out for change. But the change never came.
No wonder they feel let down. Because they have been.
And no wonder they feel like the system’s rigged against them. Because it is.
From prosecuting our brave veterans to freebie-gate, Westminster has become a broken, clapped-out machine that only looks after its own and leaves the rest of us behind.
People aren’t asking for the moon. They want a fair deal. A better future. A government that backs them.
Instead, we’ve got a Conservative Party that doesn’t seem to know what it stands for any more.
Yes, I was part of that government. I accept my share of responsibility.
But when the Rwanda plan came in half-baked, I pushed for stronger action.
When National Insurance was hiked, I said no.
British politics has become a grotesque pantomime, with the British political class competing to do our country down, telling us we should be ashamed of our history while at the same time putting us on a path to managed decline
Sir Jake
Some said I was being disloyal. I say I was being honest.
Because the truth is, the Conservatives have lost their way. They’ve abandoned their principles. They’ve abandoned the British people.
And they’ve abandoned me.
They don’t stand for low taxes any more. They don’t stand for free enterprise or secure borders.
British politics has become a grotesque pantomime, with the British political class competing to do our country down, telling us we should be ashamed of our history while at the same time putting us on a path to managed decline.
Across the political divide, the two old parties tell us this is progress.
But it’s not. It’s slow-motion failure.
Britain isn’t just in the last-chance saloon. She’s drinking the dregs of the last pint and being told to smile about it.
One final Hail Mary
But decline isn’t destiny. We still have a choice.
And I choose to fight for a better future.
Not just talk about change but actually deliver it.
And that only happens with Reform. Reform UK is offering something new.
With Nigel Farage leading, we’ve got someone the country can actually trust
Sir Jake
Politics with straight talk. Common sense. Listening to people, not lecturing them.
No more politicians jumping from issue to issue like tightrope walkers after a skinful at the Dog And Duck.
Reform is now the real opposition.
Not the Conservatives. Not the Lib Dems.
They’ve had their chance and now Reform represents our last chance.
One final Hail Mary to pull Britain back from terminal decline.
That is because Reform gets it. Reform listens. And Reform fights.
And with Nigel Farage leading, we’ve got someone the country can actually trust.
He stuck with Brexit when everyone told him to pack it in.
He never folded, even when the odds were against him.
He doesn’t change his views to fit the mood of the day. And people respect that. So do I.
That’s why I believe he should be our next Prime Minister.
If we want to fix this country, it’s time to be bold again.
It’s time to believe again. It’s time for Reform.
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