Transcript of Ann Widdecombe’s Reform UK Conference Speech.

Transcript of Ann Widdecombe’s Reform UK Conference Speech. ( Extract of first few minutes)

( Anne walks on stage to thunderous applause )

She says… “Have you had enough of this government? (Conference shouts Yes!)

Have you had enough of endless talk with no action? (Yes!)

Have you had enough of an opposition that changes its mind every two seconds, sending us all into a whirlwind of dizzying U-turns?

If you have reached your limit… if you truly yearn for change, then there's only one way to express that sentiment: To comprehensively reject our current system. (Applause]

Now, Ben Habib has declared his intent to obliterate the Tories. But that's insufficient. We must also set our sights on Labour! [Cheers]

It's vital that we never lose sight of the threat Labour represent.

Their objective, hidden though it may be, is to draw us back into the EU through the back door Of course, they aren't directly advocating for a formal re-entry; that's an unrealistic ambition. But what could happen and what will happen under the leadership of Keir Starmer is a subtle alignment with Europe

Gradually, in the guise of closer cooperation we'd find ourselves deferring to EU regulations, letting them dictate our border policies.

In essence, we'd remain tethered to an institution the nation has comprehensively rejected. Let us not be complacent about the risks Labour represents.

If we hope to effect meaningful change, if we're determined to see genuine reform, then we must secure victories by siphoning votes from both conservatives and labour

I think there's a small third party out there, but we don't need to worry about them.

In fact, if you conducted a vox pop among the population, you wouldn't find many people who recognize the name Ed Davis.

What we have to do, and the message we have to take out, is really a very simple one:

If you want change; if you want things done differently; if you want to get our country back again; if you want Britain to be run by Britain and not by the EU or by anybody else; if those are the things that you want; if you want to get rid of the scourge of political correctness; if you want to control immigration; if you want our kids to have a proper education instead of critical race theory; if you want the NHS to actually do the job it was designed to do; if you want all those things, then there is no earthly point in voting for more of the same.

There is no point!

The very definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

So, it is crucial that that message gets across. The whole weight on the push for reform, and the whole reason d’etre for Reform is reform.

It is change. It is to stop the direction that we are going in at the moment and create an entirely new direction, at the very center of which is freedom!

And always, if you are to effect change, you rely on the courage of individuals. The courage to vote for something different, even if you are afraid.

The courage to stand for what you believe in, even if it involves risk.

We have virtually lost free speech in this country because people are afraid to exercise it.

But we need to encourage free speech. We need to define what is going wrong. We need to put parents in charge of what their children are taught.

We should not, in any circumstances, allow four-year-olds to be told that they can be a man or woman depending on what they want... ...and that they can change their mind if they want on a Wednesday afternoon.

That is not what we send our children to school for. We send our children to school to be taught what we cannot teach them ourselves.

I couldn't teach physics or chemistry. And Rishi couldn’t teach Maths

Rishi proposals on maths has to be the craziest proposal yet: that children who are very, very clever in some subjects should have their chances of entering into a top university prejudiced because they don't happen to be very good at maths or English.

All my life, I have used arithmetic, and I have used the logic implicit in algebra, but never, since the age of 15, have I bothered with the square of the hypotenuse. [Laughter]

...and Rishi needs to understand that diluting the curriculum, that diluting subjects, is not going to repair the education system. What will repair the education system is the end of grade inflation, rigor in education, and discipline in education.

These are the things we need to talk about…”

(End of Quote)

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