Douglas Carswell is a former Conservative and then UKIP MP and one of the founders of the Vote Leave campaign which won the 2016 Referendum to leave the European Union. He now works in Mississippi in the USA where he is the CEO of the Mississippi Centre for Public Policy, a free market think tank.

Whilst I observe that Mr Carswell is doing sterling work in the USA promoting the ideas of freedom and liberty, I am also aware that he hasn’t forgotten the country of his birth nor its increasing problems. He put out a post on the X platform earlier today in which he listed all the things that need to be done in order to pull Britain back from the brink of disaster and set the nation on the road to some sort of achievable recovery.

Mr Carswell said:

To rescue Britain, the public need to demand:

1. Border controls. Remove illegal arrivals immediately, appeals heard overseas.

2. Large-scale deportation of those who entered illegally. No foreign courts holding jurisdiction.

3. Concerted assimilation, with a policy to deport radical imams and extreme Islamists.

4. End BBC licence fee. They lie.

5. Repeal Equality Act, Human Rights Act and close “supreme” court. None of these innovations have protected our natural liberties.

6. Give parents a legal right to control their share to local education budget. Parent power is the only way to counter woke indoctrination.

7. Abolish all renewable energy targets and restrictions on hydrocarbons.

8. Terminate QE and unwind monetary manipulation that has destroyed productivity.

9. 10 percent across the board cut in public spending to save the country from looming bankruptcy. Pain now so our children might not be poorer than us.

10. Department of Prime Minister to end the clown show of incompetence in Westminster

I agree with all of Mr Carswell’s suggestions with the exception of the across the board 10% spending cut. This is because there are many areas of the state, for example public sector diversity spending, that could do with a much harsher cut than just ten percent. Also if a blunt instrument rather than a more targeted scalpel like approach is used then I would not trust Britain’s local authorities to cut 10% off of useful stuff in order to not defund the council’s migrant pets or their rainbow cronies. However this list is a good start of a thought experiment on what needs to be done to undo the damage to Britain and its people from years of abuse by the liberal -left Establishment.