VLey

Imagine a parent who spends far more than they earn every single month. FAR more. Instead of cutting back, they keep borrowing. For a while, life is comfortable for the family. Nobody minds, the times are good. But the credit cards go up. The loans get bigger. The interest keeps mounting. It gets worse and worse. The interest payments soon outweigh the food costs, the energy bill, the mortgage. It becomes unmanageable. The family’s income cannot cover it. It grows and grows and grows. The parent retires - doesn’t want to work, but wants the easy life to continue. The burden is left with the children who had no say in how the debt was accumulated in the first place. They’re left to pay the interest every month. Life is hard, and getting harder. The payments are crushing, and so vast the idea of ever repaying the actual debt feels impossible. Their entire financial existence is treading water in an attempt to manage the interest payments, all for decisions they did not take. Not an acceptable situation, is it? Clearly not. That is exactly what my generation has done to Britain's young men and women. In 2025/26 the government spent roughly £110 billion on debt interest. That’s 3.6% of GDP and 8.1% of total public spending. Almost double the defence budget. Think about that for a minute. It is INSANE. Think about how many taxpayers are working to simply service that debt. Not to fund public services or to build infrastructure, or to look after those in need, but to pay debt interest. To fund awful decisions. That is Britain in 2026. 30 years of easy, lazy and selfish decisions. We've borrowed hundreds of billions of pounds to avoid making hard choices. The debt grew, the interest payments soared. We've expanded the fat state, lived so far beyond our means and convinced ourselves someone else would eventually pay for it. That someone else is our children. Their children. Our grandchildren. They are expected to buy homes we made unaffordable, pay taxes we’ve allowed to soar and work to service a national debt we accumulated. Somehow survive the inflation that we have stoked and stoked with endless money printing and the growth of the parasitic state. We should have left them a country with affordable homes, low debt, cheap energy, growing industries and money in the bank. We should have left them a home built on solid foundations. As a country, we have failed. Restore Britain is prepared to do what responsible parents do, to do what that parent should have done to begin with. Stop spending money we don't have. Brutally cut back, live within our means and then some. Pay off the debt. Make the difficult choices. Not for us, but for them. Does that approach make for easy decisions today? No. Does it win many votes? Probably not. But it is the only way to restore fairness, responsibility and economic sanity. Because I don’t know how else to put this. The country is BROKE. Britain is bankrupt, and my generation bankrupt it. Zero point denying it. And let me be clear about one thing. The economy, and the country, is teetering on the edge of a very high, a very jagged and a very dangerous cliff. Complete and total economic collapse awaits. But the only good news is that there is finally a political party with the courage and the honesty to do something about it for our children and our grandchildren - to start the rebuild, the repair, the restoration. Restore Britain. And if you don't like the sound of those difficult decisions, then don't vote for us.