“The Ticeman Cometh?” – Last part in our trilogy of videos from an interview with Reform’s Leader
In this EXCLUSIVE interview, we ask about the party’s policies on the pressing issues of the day
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Crime, NHS, education, housing, extreme Islamists, Hamas, and more – watch or read below
Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org are pleased to present the final part in our trilogy of videos of the exclusive interview we conducted with Richard Tice, Leader of Reform UK. You can watch the video below (12 mins) or read the highlights.
There is scarcely any aspect of public policy which isn’t covered in this series of three videos. Our aim was to provide readers of this site and the audience on our YouTube channel with information to inform their voting decision at the next election. Being non-partisan, we will also be asking both Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer for interviews.
A Brexit Facts4EU.Org Series
Part I – Immigration & integration, stopping the boats, tax & the economy, freedom of expression
Part II - Energy costs and security, defence, Northern Ireland, education
Part III – Crime, NHS, education, housing, extreme Islamists, Hamas, why vote Reform UK? (This report)
In this final part of the video, we ask about some more key policies
The Richard Tice Interview - Part III
The Reform UK party and what it stands for
- Dealing with crime
- Extreme Islamists in the UK – plus the issue of Hamas and anti-Semitism
- The NHS
- Education
- Housing
- Why vote Reform UK?
[Source: Exclusive Facts4EU and CIBUK interview with Reform UK Leader Richard Tice, 28 Feb 2024.]
Watch Part III of this fascinating interview here (12 mins)
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Tice interview extracts - Part III
For those readers who don't want to disturb people around them by watching the video, what follows are extracts and our paraphrasing of what Richard Tice said. He was also keen to promote Reform UK's policy document (linked below) which he says has been fully costed.
NET ZERO
- Scrap Net Zero, stop it literally overnight. Scrap the whole thing. Scrap the Climate Change Act.
CRIME
- Scrap net zero, stop it literally overnight. Scrap the whole thing. Scrap the Climate Change Act.
- Commence a dramatic increase in our police numbers to the levels they have in France.
- That requires about another 40,000 police officers. We've got to get them on the beat.
- Zero-tolerance policing, dealing with shoplifting, anti-social behaviour, knife crime. Take them off the streets for a few months.
- Build at least 10,000 places in detention camps. ”We have to completely reset the boundaries of acceptable behaviour and tolerance and the police have to be properly empowered.”
- Because the existing backlog is so huge, set aside an extra £2 billion for the criminal justice system.
- “We might be at the stage where any police officer on the streets should be carrying a taser.”
EXTREME ISLAMISTS IN UK, HAMAS, ISRAEL
- No legal definition by statute in the UK as to what Islamophobia means.
- ”The definition that I respect is that used by the Runnymede Trust, which came up with the first definition in 1997. It's completely different to what the likes of Sadiq Khan divisively use.”
- ”On October the 11th, I called for these marches to be banned. I could see from the first one on October the 9th that I went to that they were hateful, they were anti-Semitic, and they would encourage a degree of trouble on the streets. And I'm sadly, I've been proven right.”
- ”Utterly weak leadership from the Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Mayor of London, Met chief Sir Mark Rowley, utterly weak and feeble. MPs are terrified, the Jewish community are terrified, the Speaker's terrified. The police won't dare arrest these extreme Islamists on Parliament Square from breaking the law and projecting a violent genocidal message onto the House of Commons. This is all because of weak, gutless leadership, and if I had been in charge, it would have been stopped on day one.”
- ”The right to protest is vital within a democracy. But let me be clear: that does not give you the right to break the law, to incite hatred and anti-Semitism. That is the line. And that's the utter failure of our authorities to impose that line.”
- ”My candidate in the Rochdale by-election received a video two days ago, the vilest, nastiest racist death threat I've ever, ever experienced, heard or seen. Just utterly awful. And I'm afraid that is all a consequence of this weak leadership. And that's got to change.”
- “I asked protestors: ‘Do you want to free the hostages? Do you want to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organisation? Do you condemn the October 7th attacks?’ I got shouted at, abused, pushed, shoved, megaphones blaring in my ears, drums being played. They didn't want to listen. These people are deeply anti-Semitic.”
THE NHS AND OTHER PLANNED REFORMS
The NHS :
- “The NHS is no longer fit for purpose. The outcomes are amongst the worst in the developed world, particularly with regard to cancer, for example.”
- ”Healthcare free at the point of delivery, but if you can afford to pay a bit more, then morally we're going to incentivise you to pay a bit more in order to go independent, to take the pressure off the NHS.”
- Basic rate tax relief on private health insurance.
- The Labour Party want to put VAT on all independent healthcare.
- “We're allocating an extra £17 billion for healthcare.”
- The NHS has got to buy 3 or 4 million extra operations every year from the independent sector.
- ”I think we can get to zero waiting lists in two years.”
Education :
- ”Labour want to put VAT on independent school fees. We would do the opposite. We would actually provide tax relief on school fees.”
Civil service and electoral reform :
- ”They've just got to be told: we're the elected representatives, this is the plan. If you don't like it, please go and get a job elsewhere, because we're going to deliver it. And if you get in the way, you're fired.”
- Reform the House of Lords, reform the ridiculous BBC licence fee.
- The first-past-the-post system is deeply unfair.
- Postal voting system is deeply fraudulent and open to abuse.
HOUSING
- House prices and rents have gone up so much because we can't keep up with immigration.
- We haven't built 300,000 homes per year since the early 1970s.
- Freeze immigration, let the system catch up.
- Make a much greater use of brownfield sites. There's huge quantities of it all over the country. Ease the planning regulations in brownfield sites before gobbling up vast swathes of green fields.
Scrap Net Zero
- Dramatically reduce some of the regulatory requirements in order currently to make new homes meet targets.
- They can still be very well insulated with modern techniques, but the whole planning process is way too slow and cumbersome, adding to the cost of homes.
WHY VOTE REFORM?
- ”Above is the plan, literally to save Britain. The Tories have broken Britain. Starmergeddon will bankrupt Britain, and [what I’m talking about] will literally save Britain.”
- ”We are standing candidates in every constituency in England, Scotland and Wales. We're not standing in Northern Ireland.”
AND FINALLY
- “Great to be with you, as always. And to your viewers and listeners, I hope it's been been useful and really good to go through this contract. I urge you: download it, read it, and we welcome comments. We deliberately did it as a draft, so that people can say what they like, what they think we've missed out, where they think we've got the costings wrong. That's what you do in business. That's what we should do with a contract with the people.”
Reform UK's policies
In this interview Richard Tice references Reform UK's 'Contract With the People' which they have recently released so we have provided a link to this. (Click the image to the right.)
In this document they lay out their key policies.
As all regular readers know, both we and CIBUK remain non-partisan and this 3-part interview and links are intended to provide readers with information on which to base their voting decision later this year, whenever the General Election is announced by Rishi Sunak.
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[ Sources: Richard Tice, Leader of Reform UK ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.
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