Mike Starkie for Mayor of Cumbria

Mike Starkie for Mayor of Cumbria Conservative candidate for Mayor of Cumbria

Promoted by Mike Graham on behalf of Cumbria Conservatives, all of 4 New Rd, Kendal, LA9 4AY

Great to meet up with Ben Berry the Managing Director of English Lakes Hotels at Low Wood Bay.We discussed the many chal...
12/06/2026

Great to meet up with Ben Berry the Managing Director of English Lakes Hotels at Low Wood Bay.

We discussed the many challenges and opportunities for UK tourism and Cumbria tourism in particular.

It was an opportunity for me to give some insight into my plans if elected Mayor to an industry leader in a sector that employs 28% of the Cumbrian people.

I re-stated that I will not be implementing Labour’s proposed tourist tax which would significantly add to the severe financial pressure on Cumbrian tourism businesses and supply chains.

There will be no tourist tax in Cumbria under a Conservative Mayor.

12/06/2026

Strategy aims to deliver 5,000 new walking, wheeling and cycling routes and 10,000 safer crossings over the next 5 years.

12/06/2026

BREAKING: Today’s GDP figures show the economy shrank in April.

This is what happens when you don’t have a plan for growth.

Great to speak to members tonight in Penrith
11/06/2026

Great to speak to members tonight in Penrith

09/06/2026

Here's 35 Reasons to rejoin the Conservative Party 👇
(conservatives.com/join)

🌟 Our Golden Rule: for every £1 of savings we make, at least half will go to cutting the deficit.

🏠The next Conservative government would abolish Stamp Duty on family homes.

💼 We will introduce a First Job Bonus - first £5k in National Insurance towards savings.

🛍️ We’d abolish business rates for retail, hospitality & leisure businesses.

⚡ Our Cheap Power Plan will cut electricity bills by £165 by axing the Carbon Tax and old renewable subsidies.

🔧 The Conservatives would double apprenticeships funding.

🎓 We will end the university debt trap by cutting wasteful taxpayer spending on low-value degrees.

🚀 We’d expand business coaching in schools.

⚡️The Conservatives would repeal and replace the Climate Change Act to bring energy prices down.

🌾 We will declare a Food & Farming Emergency.

🐄 We’d review DEFRA quangos like Natural England that hold back rural growth.

🧮 We will save £23bn from welfare - restricting eligibility to British citizens and reforming low-level mental health payments.

🏢 The Conservatives would cut the Civil Service back to 2016 levels, saving £8bn.

🌍 We’d cut Overseas Aid by £7bn.

🏨 The next Conservative government would end asylum hotels, saving £3.5bn.

🏘 We will save £4bn by ensuring social housing goes to British citizens.

💸 The next Conservative government would save £1.6bn by cutting Net Zero schemes.

🏦 The Conservatives will make it easier for businesses to open bank accounts.

🧾 We’d introduce a rating system for small business engagement with HMRC.

🔍 We will reform IR35 to cut red tape.

🏙 The Conservatives would rewrite the London Plan to build more homes.

🚨 Our Crime Plan will hire 10,000 more police officers.

🔍 We'd triple Stop and Search.

📍 The next Conservative government would introduce Hot Spot Policing in problem areas.

🗣 We will end policing of free speech.

⚖ The Conservatives will abolish the Sentencing Council and put and end to judicial activism.

🪖 We'd protect our veterans from vexatious litigation.

🏫 The next Conservative government will have zero tolerance on bad behaviour in schools.

🚫 We will ban asylum claims for illegal entrants.

🇬🇧 We'd leave the ECHR, ECAT & HRA.

✈️ The next Conservative government will establish a Removals Force to deport 150,000 a year.

⏱ Our BORDERS plan will deport all new illegal arrivals within a week - and all foreign criminals.

❌ We will end the Immigration Tribunal, Judicial Review & legal aid for immigration cases.

🤝 We'd sign returns agreements backed by visa sanctions.

🌐 The Conservatives will support our allies abroad to prevent illegal entry to Europe.

The Conservatives have changed.

We are a team with a plan to get Britain back on track.

Join us, and let’s do it together.

👉 conservatives.com/join

Join the Conservative Party and HELP BUILD A COUNTRY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE.

Thomas Evans post on XPunishing today’s Conservatives for the mistakes of the past isn't just counterproductive—it’s com...
07/06/2026

Thomas Evans post on X

Punishing today’s Conservatives for the mistakes of the past isn't just counterproductive—it’s completely self-defeating.

​Think about it: it is exactly like a football fanbase refusing to support their club because of a terrible previous season under a completely different manager. It makes zero sense.

​For years, the core complaint was clear: "We don't have an ideologically true Conservative leader, and we don't have real Conservative policies." Well, now we do. Under Kemi Badenoch, the landscape has completely shifted:

​The Principles: She is delivering the authentic, common-sense conservatism the grassroots have been begging for.

​The Vision: She is actively dismantling a decade of misrule and rebuilding the party from the ground up.

​The Momentum: Her message is resonating, and her leadership is popular.

​But Kemi cannot do this alone. She needs our support to make this renaissance a success.

​Right now, the political landscape is fractured by a protest vote that achieves nothing. Splitting the vote for Reform—a party that operates as a volatile one-man band and routinely borrows policies from across the aisle just to patch a manifesto together—doesn't help a single soul in this country.

​Worse still, let’s look at what Reform actually represents. The Tories are true blue. True Conservatism is blue.
Voting turquoise—a diluted, compromised blue—gets you a diluted form of conservatism that actively drifts leftward in Northern regions just to chase Red Wall populism. It lacks core stability.

​The Conservative Party offers tested, experienced, "old school" representatives who understand how to govern and how to fight for traditional values.

​It’s time to stop looking backward at past grievances and start looking forward at the real alternative. If you want genuine, un-diluted Conservatism, back the leader who is actually building it. 🇬🇧
​Back Kemi. Back the Blues. 🌳

06/06/2026

Kemi Badenoch the most outstanding politician and party leader in the UK

Out in Barrow-in-Furness with Hilary Carrick & Mike Graham,  supporting Marco Fawcett in today’s by-election for Hawcoat...
04/06/2026

Out in Barrow-in-Furness with Hilary Carrick & Mike Graham, supporting Marco Fawcett in today’s by-election for Hawcoat & Newbarns ward on Westmorland &Furness Council.

If you eligible to vote and have not yet voted please come out and vote for Marco Fawcett an outstanding young candidate 👍

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