Tony Hawes

A Morrisons store manager says his life has been completely 'devastated' after he was sacked for confronting a repeated shoplifter.  Sean Egan - who had worked in the Aldridge Morrisons in the West Midlands for 29 years - was escorting the shoplifter out of the store when the thief turned aggressive.

A Restore Britain Government would tackle the so-called ‘little’ things - the litter, the graffiti, the fly-tipping, the ‘petty’ crime, the vandalism. The broken windows. Because if you tolerate small acts of disorder, you invite the larger ones. It is very straightforward. We don’t want any of it. The graffiti, the vandalism, the crime. Look around Britain today and you can see the principle grimly playing out in real time. Litter left on the streets and never cleared, graffiti that remains untouched, petty theft treated as a minor inconvenience. Antisocial behaviour ignored or excused. I am so very bored of it all. Each one, on its own, might seem small. But together, they send a very clear message. We live in a lawless dump. Optional standards, nobody enforces the rules. A low-trust society. And once that message takes hold, the consequences follow. Because disorder breeds yet more disorder. If people see that rules are not enforced, more people begin to ignore them. What starts as low-level neglect becomes something far more serious. A high-trust society cannot function like this. And I want to live in a high-trust society, I want my grandchildren to grow up in a high-trust society. A Restore Britain Government would enforce the basics. Clean streets, zero tolerance for vandalism, real consequences for antisocial behaviour. A visible, consistent presence of policing authority. And yes, we will obviously acknowledge and reverse the role of mass immigration from certain countries has contributed to this decline. Import the third world, become the third world. Our town centres don’t have to be crime-ridden hellholes, our countryside doesn’t have to be plastered in litter, our transport network doesn’t have to be painted over with vile graffiti. This is all a choice. It’s a choice to live like this. I don’t want to live in a filth-pit where basic standards are trampled over. Our political party would restore Britain’s high-trust society. If you want that, vote for it. There’s now an option. Restore Britain.