A NEW party set up to campaign against political corruption will be targeting Devizes for the next general election.
The True and Fair Party will stand up to 30 candidates in England and Wales at the general election.
Pete Force-Jones, an assistant teacher, will take on Danny Kruger in Devizes.
Mr Force-Jones says he is concerned by the struggle faced by young local people to find quality affordable housing, and the burden being placed on public sector ‘key workers’.
He is also calling for a big improvement in local availability of health care services and political accountability.
Pete said: “Nationally, I believe we need a better political system, and better politicians; locally we need better availability of fundamental health care services."
Mission to 'clean up dirty politics'
The party was set up by Gina Miller, a business owner and activist who initiated a 2016 court case against the government over its authority to implement Brexit without parliamentary approval.
Miller said: “What the political debacles of the past few years – and the Conservative humiliations of the past few weeks – have shown is that weak political systems, corruption, and incompetence only lead to chaos. The True and Fair Party is in its infancy, so we are focusing our resources on 20-30 seats.
“What we aim to do is show that politics is no longer about right and left, but right and wrong. Our candidates represent what is good about British society, they want the best for our country and are passionate about fairness. Working together, this is just the start of our mission to clean-up Britain’s dirty politics.”
Policies of the party include a legally binding ‘oath of office’ and Truth Law for MPs; compulsory parliamentary sitting for 40 weeks a year; removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords.
The party also wants the introduction of proportional representation; introduction of automatic voter registration to improve representation and digital voting.
In addition, the establishment of an Economic Crime Unit to tackle crime that costs the UK at least £290bn a year; a Transparency Law for overseas firms owning UK property and a ban of paid lobbying by MPs.
And they want bounce back loans to be written off for the three million small and medium-sized businesses excluded from support during the Covid pandemic; tenants to no longer pay business rates and National Insurance rolled into income tax to help lower earners.
Danny Kruger is the current MP for Devizes and one of nine Conservative MPs who will face an electoral challenge from the new party.
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