REFORM!
Today I'm starting a series of posts under the 'Reform' banner.

I'm writing for the millions of ordinary people in this country who have found themselves alienated by the relentless striving for power of the main political parties. A striving that increasingly leaves ordinary people without a voice, without a role and without any influence over a Leviathan State that is crushing our people, our families and our institutions beneath a relentless and brutal centralism.

I am writing for the 1.1 million Tory local activists who have left the Conservative party since 1979 - more than double the number that remain as members.

I am writing for the 16m voters from across the political spectrum who have deserted the polls.

I am writing for those just starting out as adult citizens, for whom the distant and self-interested squabbling for power between the main parties offers no prospect of sharing in the rewards of citizenship.

And I am writing for all those who are heartily sick of the cynical opportunism, the naked avarice and the cloying mendacity of our new political elite, and those who hunger and thirst for a nation of true democratic control, of control over our own lives, our neighbourhoods, our communities and institutions.

The time is right for all of us to join our voices together in a cry of 'Reform!' that will shake the rafters in Whitehall and Westminster and reverberate across our nation.

Next: It's broken and it needs fixing.