To deal with our problems, we have to face up to reality. The truth can be painful in the short-term, but ignoring it causes more pain in the long-term.

The only difference between the career politicians of the established parties is the flavour of snake-oil they are peddling. They hope they can fool us into once again buying their same old patent medicines dressed up in new packaging.

We have had enough of being pushed around by people with little experience of life outside politics, who think they know what is best for us but usually make things worse. Freedom and Responsibility is a party for people who want to stand on their own two feet, face up to the truth, and start to make things better.

• To promote individual freedom with responsibility;
• To promote small government and low taxation;
• To trust people to take more of the decisions affecting their lives;
• To simplify the rules and incentives imposed by government;
• To create the conditions in which each person voluntarily makes the greatest contribution to society of which they are capable; and
• To communicate the integrity of our policies so fearlessly as to change the preconceptions of political reality.

Peter Prior is standing in Maidenhead. Peter is a successful businessman with 45 years of experience of creating wealth. He also has 45 years of experience of the stupidity, perversity, ineffectiveness, inefficiency and downright harm caused by well-meaning but ignorant and complex government interventions. He believes that parliament needs a voice that understands the damage that government, in its ignorance, often does. He knows that what parliament does not need is a career politician who won't stick her head above the parapet for fear of seeming "nasty", like Theresa May, the current MP for Maidenhead.

Peter is holding a public meeting to launch his campaign, at Sheephouse Farm on Tuesday, 20 April from 6.00pm.

We have been consuming our wealth. We need to create more and consume less.

We need major changes to our incentives. We must:

• minimize disincentives to work, so people keep as much as possible of the money that they earn from whatever work they are capable of doing;
• reduce the costs and constraints on businesses in competitive markets, whilst resisting corporatist calls to insulate them from competition and responsibility; and
• cut the cost and scope of government, not just to reduce taxes, but also to cut out the meddling in our personal and cooperative activities.

Our flagship policy is the replacement of the current complex systems of personal taxation, government welfare, and provision of essential services, with a Basic Income and Flat Tax on personal earnings. This would have major benefits for all three of the above objectives, but is just the start of the changes we need to make.

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If you want to indicate your support for tough measures, you cannot do that by voting for the mainstream parties. They are all chasing the notional swing voter in the middle ground.

If you vote for a mainstream party that does not represent your views, on the basis that you would rather they were in government than the others, you are giving a misleading impression of the support for middle-of-the-road policies that do nothing to fix our problems. If you do not vote for the party that most closely represents your views, you acquiesce in continued failure.

If elected, our candidates will have the freedom to stand up for the right policies. In a tightly-balanced parliament, a principled MP willing to demand tough measures will push the Government in the right direction, whereas a mainstream, careerist, relativist MP will help the Government to avoid the tough decisions.

Let the Government know that you want them to face the facts.

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