15 Ex-Labour MPs from party’s heartlands in blistering attack on Jeremy Corbyn on eve of the election
15 FORMER Labour MPs have launched a blistering attack on Jeremy Corbyn with an advertising blitz to urge Brits to not vote for him tomorrow.
The group has placed adverts in newspapers across the country warning voters “Jeremy Corbyn: not fit to be Prime Minister”.
In a blistering attack, they accused the hard-left party boss of having sided with Britain’s political enemies “from the IRA to Russia”.
And they warn Mr Corbyn’s failure to stamp out the anti-Jew racism in his own party makes him unfit to lead Britain.
The group of MPs are all part of the new anti-extremism group called Mainstream.
Two more former MPs – Jim Dowd and Tom Levitt – are the latest MPs to sign up to it.
The advert states: “Everyone wants a safer, fairer society. But in this election the Labour Party is set to deliver the opposite.
“We were all lifelong Labour voters and all former Labour MPs. We are voting for different parties at this election, but we have all come to the difficult decision not to vote Labour.”
'HARD DECISION'
Former minister Ian Austin, the chairman of Mainstream who quit Labour in disgust over anti-Semitism earlier this year, said: “This is a hard decision for Labour supporters to make.
“It was extremely difficult for me and the other former Labour MPs involved too. But the risk is just too great.
“If Jeremy Corbyn enters Downing Street on Friday 13th, it would be a disaster for the United Kingdom.”
It came as a veteran Labour spin doctor who advised Gordon Brown as PM last night vowed to vote Tory tomorrow - as he can’t stomach terrorist sympathiser Jeremy Corbyn.
Paul Sinclair, a top aide in the Better Together pro-union campaign in 2014, also blasted the Labour leader’s plans for a “dirty deal with Nicola Sturgeon”.
He said: “I cannot vote for a Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn. He is not of the Labour tradition.
“There are many reasons I could lay out. His support for terrorists around the globe. For the IRA. His refusal to take on the anti-Semitism in his party.
“The fantasies with which he is trying to con people. The billions he is supposedly going to spend on us all without a clue on how he is going to raise them.
“Notes to Santa written this month by five-year-olds have more realism about them than his manifesto.”
The devastating attack comes the day after Labour's Jonathan Ashworth was caught saying he didn't think Labour would win the election - and voters can't stand Mr Corbyn.
The Shadow Health Secretary was caught on a taped call telling a pal that the “civil service machine” would move “pretty quickly move to safeguard security” if Mr Corbyn reaches No10.
He also said his party’s chances of winning seats in the North were “abysmal” and that he “can’t see” Mr Corbyn getting to No10.
However, Mr Ashworth later told the BBC that the comments were simply "banter" between him and a Tory activist friend who had subsequently made him look a "plonker".
Seizing on the comments today, Mr Johnson said that if Brits vote for anyone other than the Tories: “This country would be led by a Hamas-backing, IRA supporting, anti-Semitism condoning appeaser of the Kremlin - which is what he is, look at the record.
“But if you doubt me, listen to what his health spokesman said today, Jon Ashworth.
“He revealed that he thinks his own leader is a security risk and I think it couldn't be clearer than that.”
The Tory boss made the comments at a JCB factory in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, after crashing through a Styrofoam brick-wall, with ‘Deadlock' emblazoned on it, in a Union Flag digger.
The PM blasted the leftie-leader as a “Hamas-backing” IRA supporter as he lept on the humiliating blunder by Mr Ashworth two days before the election.
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