Clark Vasey: The case for a leaner and more practical Conservatism, focused on the British worker
This affects the entire country.
Clark Vasey is co-founder and Executive Director of Blue Collar Conservatism.
This part 2 of 2 of ‘Re-Introducing Blue Collar Conservatism’. Part 1 can be read here.
Across the Western world, right-inclined voters have become more working class.
Those looking rightwards work hard but are more likely to feel economically insecure than a conservative base from 40 years ago. Currently, they are looking to Reform in greater numbers, but without convincing a significant majority of them that we are the party that will best deliver for them, there will not be another Conservative Government.
Since conference, Kemi Badenoch has given us more cause for confidence about our future, but we are going to need to do more than shift a few points. Reform knows it needs to get past 40 per cent to avoid its route to power being blocked by tactical voting. Reform needs to be the only viable vehicle on the right if it is to succeed. That is no less true for us.
Winning over Reform voters with understanding and a better offer for hard-working Brits is our only option.
We need to set out a blueprint for a truly Blue Collar Britain, where national renewal is achieved through an unrelenting focus on jobs and backing the potential of every one of our citizens. This would simultaneously address many of the economic, social, and structural challenges facing the UK, but it requires a joined-up approach with the British worker at its heart. A good starting point for this would be a Labour Market Strategy.
We can quibble over the word “broken”, but Britain clearly does not work. At the top of the list are migration and welfare. Our party has been increasingly bold on both, but we will need to go much further and approach them as part of the same problem. They are mutually reinforcing policy failures.
A welfare system that makes it easy for people not to work creates a demand for migrant workers, while a flow of low-skilled migrant labour undercuts wages and displaces domestic workers from the labour market.
A Labour Market Strategy would be a comprehensive plan for national renewal rooted in work. Kemi’s Plan to Get Britain Working is a great start, bringing together business and welfare policies, but it must go further adding education focused on work, a clearer approach to strategic sectors, and ensuring that migration is never again used to paper over the cracks.
Our welfare system needs overhauling, and not working must never be a choice or pay more than working. Our business and economic policies must provide conditions in which jobs can be created, even above the demands of revenue collection. Labour’s jobs vandalism must be reversed across every sector as a bare minimum. We must be relentless in giving business the conditions to create jobs and compete. …
This affects the entire country.
Clark Vasey is co-founder and Executive Director of Blue Collar Conservatism.
This part 2 of 2 of ‘Re-Introducing Blue Collar Conservatism’. Part 1 can be read here.
Across the Western world, right-inclined voters have become more working class.
Those looking rightwards work hard but are more likely to feel economically insecure than a conservative base from 40 years ago. Currently, they are looking to Reform in greater numbers, but without convincing a significant majority of them that we are the party that will best deliver for them, there will not be another Conservative Government.
Since conference, Kemi Badenoch has given us more cause for confidence about our future, but we are going to need to do more than shift a few points. Reform knows it needs to get past 40 per cent to avoid its route to power being blocked by tactical voting. Reform needs to be the only viable vehicle on the right if it is to succeed. That is no less true for us.
Winning over Reform voters with understanding and a better offer for hard-working Brits is our only option.
We need to set out a blueprint for a truly Blue Collar Britain, where national renewal is achieved through an unrelenting focus on jobs and backing the potential of every one of our citizens. This would simultaneously address many of the economic, social, and structural challenges facing the UK, but it requires a joined-up approach with the British worker at its heart. A good starting point for this would be a Labour Market Strategy.
We can quibble over the word “broken”, but Britain clearly does not work. At the top of the list are migration and welfare. Our party has been increasingly bold on both, but we will need to go much further and approach them as part of the same problem. They are mutually reinforcing policy failures.
A welfare system that makes it easy for people not to work creates a demand for migrant workers, while a flow of low-skilled migrant labour undercuts wages and displaces domestic workers from the labour market.
A Labour Market Strategy would be a comprehensive plan for national renewal rooted in work. Kemi’s Plan to Get Britain Working is a great start, bringing together business and welfare policies, but it must go further adding education focused on work, a clearer approach to strategic sectors, and ensuring that migration is never again used to paper over the cracks.
Our welfare system needs overhauling, and not working must never be a choice or pay more than working. Our business and economic policies must provide conditions in which jobs can be created, even above the demands of revenue collection. Labour’s jobs vandalism must be reversed across every sector as a bare minimum. We must be relentless in giving business the conditions to create jobs and compete. …
Clark Vasey: The case for a leaner and more practical Conservatism, focused on the British worker
This affects the entire country.
Clark Vasey is co-founder and Executive Director of Blue Collar Conservatism.
This part 2 of 2 of ‘Re-Introducing Blue Collar Conservatism’. Part 1 can be read here.
Across the Western world, right-inclined voters have become more working class.
Those looking rightwards work hard but are more likely to feel economically insecure than a conservative base from 40 years ago. Currently, they are looking to Reform in greater numbers, but without convincing a significant majority of them that we are the party that will best deliver for them, there will not be another Conservative Government.
Since conference, Kemi Badenoch has given us more cause for confidence about our future, but we are going to need to do more than shift a few points. Reform knows it needs to get past 40 per cent to avoid its route to power being blocked by tactical voting. Reform needs to be the only viable vehicle on the right if it is to succeed. That is no less true for us.
Winning over Reform voters with understanding and a better offer for hard-working Brits is our only option.
We need to set out a blueprint for a truly Blue Collar Britain, where national renewal is achieved through an unrelenting focus on jobs and backing the potential of every one of our citizens. This would simultaneously address many of the economic, social, and structural challenges facing the UK, but it requires a joined-up approach with the British worker at its heart. A good starting point for this would be a Labour Market Strategy.
We can quibble over the word “broken”, but Britain clearly does not work. At the top of the list are migration and welfare. Our party has been increasingly bold on both, but we will need to go much further and approach them as part of the same problem. They are mutually reinforcing policy failures.
A welfare system that makes it easy for people not to work creates a demand for migrant workers, while a flow of low-skilled migrant labour undercuts wages and displaces domestic workers from the labour market.
A Labour Market Strategy would be a comprehensive plan for national renewal rooted in work. Kemi’s Plan to Get Britain Working is a great start, bringing together business and welfare policies, but it must go further adding education focused on work, a clearer approach to strategic sectors, and ensuring that migration is never again used to paper over the cracks.
Our welfare system needs overhauling, and not working must never be a choice or pay more than working. Our business and economic policies must provide conditions in which jobs can be created, even above the demands of revenue collection. Labour’s jobs vandalism must be reversed across every sector as a bare minimum. We must be relentless in giving business the conditions to create jobs and compete. …
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