Heritage Party's Election Campaign Across Wales
The Heritage Party, the only smaller party fielding candidates in every Welsh constituency, has announced plans to abolish the Senedd, terminate "net zero" carbon reduction targets, and eliminate "political correctness." The party is contesting all 16 Welsh seats and emphasizes the promotion of "traditional family values."
Founded in 2020 by former UKIP London Assembly Member David Kurten, who leads the party, the Heritage Party identifies as socially conservative with Christian cultural influences.
Party Manifesto and Key Policies
The Heritage Party's manifesto includes a call for a moratorium on expanding the 5G network until its safety is proven. It also pledges to end what it describes as the "sexualisation of school children."
Jason Barker, spokesperson for the Heritage Party in Wales, stated that he and his fellow candidates are motivated by a desire to uphold "traditional family values."
"We're all just concerned citizens who've had enough of the way things are being done and what the big parties are up to," he said.
"We stand against the net zero agenda, against the sexualisation of children through sexual education in schools.
All of the big parties pretty much say the same thing. There's no difference between them.
We don't have corporate funders with agendas. We're just standing as real people, trying to do something for the betterment of the country."
The party's principal pledges include abolishing net zero targets, reopening coal mines, lifting CO2 restrictions, and halting the construction of wind turbines.
"We're not anti-renewable, we're anti net zero because it's a catch all policy that makes no sense," Barker explained.
"What we're against is very large-scale industrialised projects across Wales.
There are much better ways of spending that money and much better ways of making this a better place to live."
Additional Policy Proposals
The Heritage Party also promises to reduce NHS waiting times, establish new community police stations, and eliminate the Welsh government budget deficit.
"What it means is a look at efficiency," Barker said.
"There is a tremendous amount of waste.
There was apparently £3m spent on gender neutral tree planting in Uganda by the Senedd.
I don't really know what that means, but on the face of it, it sounds ridiculous. And yet we can't fill potholes in.
In the long term we want to abolish the Senedd, because we believe that's an extra layer of bureaucracy and cost that is not necessary and not helping the Welsh people."
Stance on Family and Social Issues
The party advocates that marriage should be exclusively between a man and a woman. Its manifesto further states that only married couples should be permitted to adopt children.
Additionally, the Heritage Party calls for a ban on surrogacy and the prohibition of what it terms "LGBTQQIAAAPP+ propaganda" directed at children.
Barker addressed perceptions about the party's views on the LGBTQ+ community.
"It was 'not fair at all' to suggest the party had a problem with gay people, but said they were concerned by what he called 'degenerate behaviour' in society," he said.
"That's a twisting of it.
It is a Christian party. I'm not a churchgoing Christian myself but most of the people in the party are.
Traditional family values are what we're trying to support.
There's an awful lot of degenerate behaviour, as we see it, going on at the moment that makes no sense at all, but we've got absolutely no problem with any particular group of people. Certainly not."
