Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf says his get together’s mission is to “remoralise” younger folks.
Talking off the again of his get together’s huge beneficial properties within the native elections, Mr Yusuf mentioned younger folks have been being taught to “hate their country” and that Reform’s mission was to alter their morals.
“There has been an industrial-scale demoralisation, particularly of young people in this country, who are basically being taught quite deliberately that they should hate their country; they should be deeply ashamed of their country’s history; that the United Kingdom had a brutal empire,” he advised The Occasions.
“Look, of course, you know, the British Empire was not perfect, but I actually think overall the British Empire did much more good for the world than it did bad.”
He mentioned the get together’s mission was to “remoralise” the youth and that inside a few months of gaining energy, Reform would erect statues of nice British figures and finish “all this woke nonsense”.
He continued: “How many young people know who Isambard Kingdom Brunel is? Look at the character assassination that has occurred on the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill.
“The truth that they need to cowl up his statue as a result of they do not wish to provoke protesters. I imply that is the kind of completely indefensible so-called management that we have had and younger folks really feel that of their bones.”
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He mentioned he believes Reform chief Nigel Farage’s message is “resonating” with younger folks and added: “I think that a lot of young people we speak to feel very smothered by a finger-wagging sort of teaching class.
“They really feel very restricted, they really feel an enormous lack of alternative … You are going to hear from us over the subsequent couple of years increasingly of a coverage platform for younger folks, for Gen Z and for millennials.”
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Mr Farage has been extra targeted on what his get together’s trajectory is doing to the Conservatives, saying in his column for The Telegraph that Kemi Badenoch’s get together had been “hollowed out” and is experiencing a “strange death” as a result of rising reputation of Reform.
He mentioned the UK had reached a “new political age”, reiterating earlier claims that two-party politics “is finished”.
