This is it from the Brexit Party, their “contract with the people” (very Newt Gingrich a la 1994). It’s a short contract. Just over 20 pages. 
Never mind Newt Gingrich, policies all feel v UKIP a la 2015:
- scrap HS2
-cutting foreign aid budget by 50%
-abolish inheritance tax
- scrap HS2
-cutting foreign aid budget by 50%
-abolish inheritance tax
One thing which has hugely impressed about the Brexit Party has been the quality of its branding, advertising etc. Slick, professional, surprising. The production of this document is, well, not...It’s never been a party with a full comprehensive platform. It’s not its purpose.
Plenty of more statist stuff in here: industrial policy, subsidy of specific industries “free of EU rules on state aid”) and funnily enough, free broadband.
The Brexit Party is such a curious beast these days. Speaker saying Party has no pretensions to form a govt, for a start they’re not standing in enough seats but we’re going through their spending proposals and policy commitments anyway.
Farage arrives: “this is not a manifesto...it’s a contract with the people. We won’t just campaign for the policies in it for the next few weeks but also in the years to come.” Which is curious, as Farage always said he only came back to politics to ensure Brexit took place.
Farage: “We’ll be looking at the wording of the Conservative manifesto on Sunday very carefully indeed.”
Farage claims we now have a “highly politicised” civil service and civil servants should sign “a pledge of neutrality.”
Farage says they’d partly pay for their proposals via recovery of our £7bn in the European Investment Bank. Short of going in there doing a heist and stealing it, it’s hard to see how you’d do that with leaving without a deal...
Farage says he wants to see immigration down to around 50,000 a year.
Farage is now veering around from subject to subject without much of a thread. He’s been so searing this year, so sharp politically. Now feels as if he’s a man in search of a cause.
The odd thing about “contract with people” as a thing is that given the BXP isn’t standing in every seat, it just won’t be in a position to implement the contract in full. By definition, it will have to be broken.
Farage says he’ll go on campaigning “for years to come” on what is in his manifesto and for “wholesale political reform.”
