David has always sought to serve his country and its people first, and not any narrow party or vested interest. He strongly believes in Britain and the Union of the United Kingdom. He is the child of a Scottish and Welsh father, English and Irish mother.

He believes in patriotism - a love of one’s country without denigrating others, in strong defence, in maintaining British values, in excellence, merit and fairness in education, in low taxes, tough crime policies, caring for the disadvantaged, making quality products in Britain, traditional matrons in hospitals and GPs at home, in proper borders and a strong immigration policy - but David is strongly anti-racist. He loves Europe, but not the EU.

David believes the current problem in Britain is the result of ‘an anti-establishment establishment‘: the very people who in their youth attacked and ridiculed the then establishment - Trotskyites, Communists, CND supporters, pacifists - are now some of its top judges, policemen, educationalists, journalists, entertainers and politicians. They are the liberal elite - Soulless modernisers. Why, for example, did the BBC recently commemorate the 1968 Paris Riots as if it were a shame Britain didn’t have one?

Many in this elite deride Britain and Britishness, feel only shame at our history, trivialise our institutions and brand the majority of Britons as racist, sexist, ageist - for this elite worships at the Marxist altar of Political Correctness. These people do not believe in God or right and wrong or in excellence or personal responsibility or democracy or discipline or the military or traditional values, institutions and design. They can't wait to melt Britain away into egalitarian, totalitarian Marxist global or regional identities such as the EU.

They come across as well spoken, well educated, reasonable individuals, but in reality they are hardened extremists. Fortunately, this liberal elite are an insular minority, and democracy makes them vulnerable.  That’s why they decry referenda and marginalise voters as too stupid or too uneducated to have an opinion. David trusts the people. He says: “What we need in Britain is a democratic revolution !” - power should be transferred back to the people at all levels. For the British people are a good, decent, intelligent people, and they will be our salvation. 

David believes many of the problems in modern society stem from a lack of ‘structure’. People now have few boundaries to guide them. Many parents treat children as their ‘mates’ and prefer peer approval to instilling discipline and standards of behaviour. Extremists advocate the banning of smacking - an essential last resort. Meanwhile, feminism has gone way beyond achieving rightful equality, and has acted to confuse a generation of women and men as to what they should want out of life. Families have been broken and shattered, and norms of behaviour abandoned.

Teachers, once feared in the classroom, have been hung out to dry by the liberal establishment. They are prevented from disciplining children and are often the victims themselves of assault or malicious accusations leading to suspensions. “You can't teach an undisciplined rabble” comments David. Meanwhile, the collective lie that the educational system is a great success goes on, when the reality is a catastrophic dumbing down and dilution of standards: an enforced equality of poverty of aspiration and achievement, and a feeble ideology that ‘all must have prizes’ has taken the place of a striving for excellence and an emphasis on merit.

The structure of ‘right and wrong’, moral responsibility and an emphasis on doing good in society, as advocated by organised religion has been undermined by a serious fall off in church attendance, with the official Church of England, feebly led and muddled now, being overtaken by the Catholic Church, which does still provide boundaries. Overall, Christian worship now faces becoming a minority relative to the Islamic faith according to projections reported in the Times newspaper.

On the streets, figures of respect in the community, who could observe or intervene to ensure civilised behaviour, are absent or cowed into silence: beat policemen and women are a rarity, rail stations and parks left unmanned, buses are devoid of conductors, families isolated in their cars, leaving the streets empty and the preserve of drug addicts, drop outs, drunks and criminals.

David believes that only UKIP offers Britain a chance to start afresh, to restore the standards that have made Britain such a model for so many other countries around the world: in its human rights and laws and philosophy, values of tolerance, free speech and fair play. He feels Britain must pursue a better destiny than playing a diminished ‘bit part’ role in a sluggish, undemocratic, unaccountable and often corrupt EU state. But it cannot do this while being run by a foreign government - it must recognise the realities and regain its freedom as a country. All that is required is a strong vision, and a bit of balls !

Campbell Bannerman is excited at the prospects for a newly independent, free acting Britain outside the EU. He comments: “An independent Britain would get control of its destiny back. We would be reinvigorated as a country free of the ill fitting shackles of the EU. Of course we would continue to trade happily with our European friends, and negotiate a mutually beneficial free trade agreement with the EU as its largest single trading partner (40 billion deficit last year). Then we could do our own trade deals with other countries around the world, which the EU does badly for us now through Mr Mandelson.”

“We should turn to our rightful place in the world - to the Churchillian vision of an ‘English Speaking Union’ - the Commonwealth. This is not looking backwards, but forwards, and is nothing to do with Empire. Remember, India’s economy by 2050 will be larger than all 27 EU economies put together, and there are 52 Commonwealth countries, with a third of the world’s population, a quarter of world trade and 13 of the fastest growing economies - all of which are built on English laws, language and values.”

David believes that liberation from a situation where 75% of UK Laws come from the EU, 120,000 EU directives and regulations are imposed on Britain, and a cost of at least 50 billion a year, 15 billion in cash contributions, is a very exciting prospect.

The freedom of manouvre, the substantial extra resources recovered and the ability to cut costs, drop taxes and boost the UK economy are considerable. Britain would flourish through global trade, and not base its entirely political and economic future constrained by the 10% of the UK economy that involves trade with the EU. And it can do this without losing jobs, influence, trade or employment prospects - all of which are scare stories - as all the benefits of trading and cooperating with Europe can be maintained.

David joined UKIP to realise this vision, and because he believes that the EU is such a serious, dangerous and overriding threat to the democracy, freedoms and traditions of the United Kingdom, and UKIP is the only Party telling the truth about the issue and standing up for Britain.  I love Europe, but I fear the EU.

David’s enlightenment came on a trip to Berlin as a Conservative Parliamentary candidate.  He argued there that the Euro was a political project and was told very firmly by a senior German finance official that the Euro had nothing to do with politics. Sitting next to David was George Osborne, now Shadow Chancellor. Just months later, on the day the Euro was launched, the EU President himself said it was a political project. David felt he was being lied to in a most shocking way - and this in Goering‘s former Air Ministry building of all buildings, now full now of German finance officials ! He came out that room realising just how dangerous and dishonest the EU threat was, and how this issue transcends ‘normal’ politics.

David has articulated his personal vision and UKIP’s party position in a range of speeches and articles. These are appended for information. See the left hand menu.