Red Wall Tories are Done. Only Reform UK can turn Britain around and conserve our culture and values, says Richard Tice

The Rwanda pantomime, with its focus on illegal small boats immigration, is a cynical decoy from the much larger problem of legal immigration. Legal but immoral, for it is actively anti-democratic.

While some 45,000 illegals entered last year, more than 20 times that number has been wilfully allowed in against the explicit wishes of the electorate, under a Conservative administration that has allowed its values to become gravely corrupted.

The Conservatives have thus forever lost the trust placed in them by red wall voters. Directionless and lacking in any moral conviction or coherent political philosophy, the once great party of Churchill and Thatcher has become mired in a sick centre-left consensus that has utterly betrayed the legacy of their greatest forebears.

The defection of Lee Anderson to Reform UK is the canary in the coal mine for every single conservative red wall MP.

Not one of them can have any reasonable expectation of winning their seats again at the next election under the Conservative banner. Some of them have sound values and are well aware that their party has lost its way.

To them I say, join us, and rediscover what it is to have integrity and purpose.

In politics, years can pass and nothing changes, then everything can change in a matter of weeks.

The election of George Galloway in Rochdale heralded the tragedy of a new sectarian politics in Britain - the result of mass immigration and a failure to integrate large sections of those migrants into British society and British values.

This was followed by the Prime Minister on the steps of Downing Street finally admitting that British values were under attack from within, and that the streets of our capital had been hijacked by extremists calling for genocide, week after week after week.

If ever there was an illustration of being in office but not in power, Sunak’s speech was it. Having sacked Lee Anderson just weeks earlier for voicing precisely the same sentiments, the hypocrisy and incompetence reached new heights.

Without values there can be no meaning, and without meaning, nihilism and decay are inevitable. Perhaps the worst aspect of this nihilism in Britain is the routine accusation of racism levelled against anyone who seeks to uphold British values.

When Lee joined Reform, he told home truths that people in Britain have been crying out to hear for many years. It is not controversial to be concerned by illegal immigration. It is not controversial to be concerned by legal immigration.

Britain is a bastion of democracy and free speech or it is nothing -yet this Conservative government has ignored the will of the people on immigration, and completely failed to safeguard the freedom of speech upon which all democracies depend.

That Sadiq Khan should baselessly accuse Lee Anderson of racism is symptomatic of the cancer in the body politic of our country - for Islam, as with Christianity, is a creed which has nothing to do with race.

Mayor Khan is absolutely deserving of criticism, and he must face it and respond to it on the substance of the issues.

The growing intimidation from Islamists of anyone remotely critical of their faith is an existential threat to British values and society.

Talk of Reform splitting the right and letting in Labour is a misconception, because the Conservatives do not represent the values of Churchill and Thatcher which are championed by Reform UK.

It is a vote for the Conservatives which is a wasted vote, because it is a vote for a diluted version of the Socialism and identity politics which Labour offers. Nor do they have a Thatcher waiting in the wings.

Politics is changing around the world, and the time for change in Britain has come. If you want change, you have to vote for it. Only Reform UK can turn Britain around and conserve our culture and our values.