Let Scotland flourish: Reform’s New Deal

SCOTLAND has been broken by the SNP, but our wonderful country can be fixed. In 1933-39, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promoted bold legislation to implement his New Deal for the USA with a series of reforms designed to reset America following the great depression. It’s time now for us to borrow from his “three Rs” and, following twenty-five years of mediocrity at Holyrood, Reform UK’s mission is to reset Scotland for the next twenty-five years of prosperity.

REFORM AND RESET OUR ECONOMY

It’s time now to turbo-charge our economy to grow by at least 2.5 per cent per annum over the next ten years. To achieve this, the two immediate priorities are (i) reward hard-working Scots with an immediate tax break which will incentive them to be more productive and (ii) get our energy costs down to allow us to be industrially competitive again. By structuring our education and training resources around our ten leading business sectors, we can immediately tool up our youngsters for this new economy and re-skill our adults who have fallen out of the pathway to work. Every person who can work should work, it’s part of the Scottish DNA, and well-paid jobs will create wealth for all.

REFORM AND REVITALISE OUR COMMUNITIES

It’s time now to prioritise local Scots in their own communities and restore the “local connection” in our public services. Of course, this includes the diversity which has developed naturally through controlled immigration in Scotland over the last seventy-five years, but which has been badly disrupted by the sheer speed and scale of the Boriswave of the last five years. Being Scottish is a state of mind and a set of values which is generous, kind, amusing, hard-working, law-abiding and fair-minded. Every stranger admitted to our country who adopts these values will be welcomed; but those who enter illegally and break our laws will be required to leave. Good health, education, housing and justice must always be available to local people and, so long as everyone embraces our common Scottish values, this will build strong and cohesive communities.

REFORM AND RESTORE OUR PRIDE

Scotland is ready to lead the way and become the most successful part of the UK. To unleash our amazingly creative and innovative people to provide modern solutions to modern problems and set an example to the world just as our ancestors did in the Scottish Enlightenment 250 years ago. Scotland has all the natural resources and the people to implement a New Deal which creates opportunity and prosperity and pride for all Scots, regardless of colour or creed. This is Reform UK’s ambition for Scotland in the next ten years.