Kilroy-Silk rounds on multiculturalism
Robert Kilroy-Silk had attacked the London “liberal fascists” and those who promote multiculturalism as he launched Vertias’ “straight talking” manifesto.
Promising to “speak fearlessly for all British people”, the former chat show host said his party were straight talking, understood real people and were not afraid to talk about the real issues that voters cared about.
Key manifesto pledges were to end mass immigration and introduce a flat rate of taxation.
Mr Kilroy-Silk said that Britons rejected the “lies of old political parties” and felt that their country had been “stolen” by “corrupt bureaucracy in Brussels, the multicultural brigade and metropolitan political leaders”.
Taking a hard line from the start, he said Veritas would end mass immigration and allow into Britain only those migrant workers who were needed.
He warned of the “divisive” effects of multiculturalism that threaten the “British way of life” and said that every culture “did not have the right to be respected”.
He asserted that while a multi-ethnic and multi-creed Britain was desirable, there should be just one British culture. This prompted applause from party members.
The former UK Independence Party member said he agreed with the Tories that the current asylum system was a “shambles” and pledged to help only “legitimate” asylum seekers classified as such by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
The money saved from this policy would go towards helping lift millions of UK children and pensioners out of poverty, he claimed.
On Europe, he said that too much sovereignty had been conceded to Brussels, insisting that although it was important to “be friends with our neighbours”, Westminster should have the final say.
Veritas deputy leader and member of the Greater London Assembly, Damian Hockney, then presented the party’s approach to taxation, describing the current system as “unfair, unwieldy and counter-productive”.
He said Veritas was committed to abolishing council tax and replacing it with a flat rate system combined with an increased personal allowance of £12,000.
This system would help the lowest earners, who would immediately be removed from the tax net, while at the same time spurring economic growth, he argued.
