Personally, I am frustrated with the divisive right wing culture wars - they serve no useful purpose and do nothing to tackle the array of crises the people and our country have been left facing after years of political failure.

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Equally, I am outraged by a stale, outdated political system that has enabled (if not necessarily encouraged) bad behaviour from those in charge who should be leading by example. That is why, as a local, I am standing for the new True & Fair Party in East Wiltshire.

Whether it is active policies to improve the state of our rivers, the lives of people working in our largely rural communities, to support those deprived of support during the worst of the Covid pandemic, to finally get an expanded, scheduled public transport system that boosts physical links between our towns and villages, or to create an economy that works for the people offering opportunities to both old and young alike, the True & Fair Party believe we deserve better.

If you like the sound of this, why not take a moment to look at us and our policies in more detail on our social media pages and website? You may even find you like what you see!

The next 5 years will no doubt set the path for the UK as we prepare for the 2030’s - we need to ensure the country is in good shape for the challenges ahead. I would urge people to think carefully before casting their vote, please don’t simply get swept up in the tried, tested (and repeatedly failed) mantra offered by the main established parties. In this area, each election, we hear the familiar claim from the big opposition parties: “Only we can beat the Conservatives here”… perhaps you are as unsurprised as I to see we’ve got exactly the same scenario this year! For those living in the parts of our constituency once in Devizes or Salisbury, who have witnessed a century of Conservatives MPs (some better, some worse) we know from experience these claims have thus far failed to implement a change.

I am not going to tell you who you need to vote for, nor claim that ‘only I can win here’ - that decision is ultimately up to you, the voters. You are more than capable of choosing for yourselves.

If you want change, please consider which party and candidate it is that offers the policies you like most, which candidate and party you trust to stick to those promises and who it is that offers the constituency, our country and the planet a positive future that you will be happiest living in. If you believe we deserve better, I would like you to go out and vote positively for whoever you think can best bring about that change, if in doing so you choose to lend your vote to me, Pete Force-Jones, the True & Fair Party candidate for East Wiltshire, I will promise to work my hardest to serve you, the people of East Wiltshire as best I can.