Independent: David Carpin

I AM a family man, who lives in Woodcote.

I am a father of three children who attend local schools and are all making their way through the ranks at Henley Sea Cadets.

I have more than 25 years’ experience working in business change and IT project managing within the insurance, banking, energy and manufacturing sectors and also government departments.

I also run a property rental business.

I UNDERSTAND the impact of government policy on small business and aim to bring a level taxation playing field between small businesses and large corporations.

I stand under the Independent Alliance banner, which has 40 candidates standing across the Country. Policies can be found at www.theindependentalliance.org

I set up the Winston Smiths Literary review, a freedom of expression movement.

I give free local talks to Oxfordshire residents and invite speakers to talk, debate and take questions from the floor.

We discuss subjects such as “Money, banking and finance. How they keep you poor”, “Climate change, All is well. All will be well”, “The covid years”, “Post-war immigration, “The European Union, a corporatist racket and how the UK was shoehorned into the common market”.

I wish to become an MP because I have experience of debating political issues. I will challenge and say no to political agendas that constituents are not asking for.

Many people are now politically homeless and feel betrayed and failed by the political uniparty.

Constituents have lost faith in the self-serving, careerist politicians who serve international, globalist corporations and fail to represent their constituents.

We need to bring an end to voting for the least dreadful political party, where the outcome is always the same — more globalisation and further alienation from the constituent.

There is a viable alternative.

The Independent Alliance stands for:

• Saying no to 15-minute cities, ULEZ and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. 15-minute cities bring traffic to a standstill. They make journey times longer and more costly.

• Rejecting net zero to ensure cheaper and more reliable energy. This can be done by removing VAT from energy bills and by removing renewable energy levies on bills. Also by encouraging shale gas exploration and the building of nuclear power stations.

• Reducing business tax and simplifying personal tax. A UK citizen paying tax should know exactly where the tax is going. Small businesses should pay the same tax as global corporations. There should be a level playing field.

• Putting more police on the bea. Police must act under oath to protect people and property and to uphold the law. They will be retrained in order to identify and resolve real crime. The police will be put on the beat. They will know their local communities and must be seen to be politically impartial.

• Keeping cash. Cash will continue to be made available to allow the continued choice of both cash transactions and digital transactions.

• Saying no to digital ID. The UK citizen is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. This constitutional right must remain and must not be compromised by introducing and allowing digital ID to be abused.

• Reforming the NHS, civil service and public sector. Every contract in the NHS will be reviewed. Every role outside the private sector will be reviewed. Trained NHS medical staff must be able to perform their role without unnecessary bureaucracy hindering them.

• Stopping the boats. Boats will be stopped and there will be zero illegal immigration. All existing legal asylum applications will be processed and illegal migrants will be returned to their countries of origin.

• Reducing high street rates. There should be no disparity between the rates and taxes that large corporations pay and the taxes paid by small business. High street rates must be reduced in order to see competition in the high street return.

• Emphasising Parliament and the UK constitution. There should be no loss of sovereignty to supranational bodies such as the European Union, WHO, ECHR, United Nations and IPCC.

• Reducing NGOs and quangos. Thousands of politicised organisations are funded by the taxpayer. Tax funding should be removed. The savings can passed to the taxpayer as tax cuts.

• Building homes. Reduce unnecessary restrictions, regulation and red tape. Modular homes will be built on brownfield land, bringing down the cost of new housing.

• Family values. Emphasise traditional family values and remove the practice of sexualising of children in the classroom.

• Farming farmland. Farmland should not be given subsidies for sitting idle or for being used to host wind or solar farms. Local farmers need our support. Good food contributes to a healthy lifestyle.

• Establishing public ownership of essential utilities.

• Ending support for the foreign wars and all international hostility that contributes to global instability and migration.