Red Wall voters saved Britain from Corbyn hell and PM Boris Johnson must see them right
THE new Tory voters of Labour’s former “Red Wall” put their faith in Boris — and saved the nation from Corbyn. We owe them a debt the PM must repay.
Labour took those “left-behind communities” for granted, then plotted to overthrow their Brexit vote to suit noisy metropolitan Remainers.
We all know the result. It is now vital, economically and politically, the Tories pump money into those regions and transform them.
The gap between them and London has been too wide too long.
And our re-elected PM was dead right to make that his priority in his first speech at No10 since winning his thumping majority.
We must “unite and level up”, he said. Exactly.
Remainers may take a while to “unite”, to “heal”. But the levelling-up can start now, by spending on infrastructure, including big transport improvements.
That, admittedly, takes years. In the short-term, low-tax zones and other tax breaks can revive High Streets and lure job-creating firms out of big cities and into regions which need the boost.
More money for public services is key too. The NHS, social care and crime are priorities across the country. So are many more affordable homes.
Visible improvements can be made rapidly, such as with a new determination to end rough sleeping, as the Blair Government almost did.
For years The Sun backed the Tories as they cut spending to fix the chaos Labour left in 2010.
That work is largely done — and, let’s face it, public patience for penny-pinching is at an end.
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We will trust a Tory Chancellor infinitely more than a Marxist one to spend prudently without bankrupting us.
Equally exciting is the power Boris now has both to reinvent the civil service to deliver on national priorities and to reshape our politics.
The Tories have a golden chance to rebrand and recast themselves as the party of working people, of Sun readers — and end the lefties’ tired mantra that they serve only the rich.
It is also time to fix the anti-Tory bias in our election system.
It is incredible their big win came even despite constituency boundaries favouring Labour. These must be redrawn.
Two years ago we said Britain needed a strong Tory majority to improve lives and take big decisions to reform public services. It has finally come true.
We heartily congratulate the many new Tory MPs. Chiefly, though, we congratulate three men.
One is Isaac Levido, the party’s talented and driven Aussie elections guru.
The other two, Dominic Cummings and Boris himself, have genuinely made history twice, against staggering odds.
They took on the Remainer establishment and won the Brexit vote in 2016. Now they have crushed the Remainers’ long refusal to deliver on it.
In one momentous instant, as the exit poll dropped at 10pm on Thursday, these men ended three and a half years of political purgatory and paralysis.
All the trickery and plots of duplicitous Remainer MPs and their rogue Speaker Bercow to reverse the referendum came to nothing.
All the expensive legal cases, the collusion with EU officials, the long PR campaign of hatred towards Leavers and Boris . . . all were for nothing.
In that one moment Boris won his mandate, Brexit was secured and the “People’s Vote” charade destroyed.
Corbynism — which had terrified millions, not least Britain’s Jews — was instantly over too and the nation liberated from the shadow of hard-left extremism.
Then one Brexit-blocking MP after another was dumped by voters.
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Cummings’s and Boris’s achievements cannot be overstated. They are victories on a different scale even from Tony Blair’s against an exhausted Tory Party.
As for what remains of Blair’s party we say this: It is staggering to see Corbyn cling on, plainly hoping to stitch up the leadership for some hard-left successor.
That will just guarantee perpetual irrelevance.
He, McDonnell, Seumas Milne, their Momentum social justice warriors and their repugnant media foghorns must be driven out NOW.
With a few honourable exceptions, Labour’s “moderate” MPs and voters have shown a repugnant lack of spine by failing to do so already.
Indeed the hypocrisy of politicians like Jess Phillips and Stella Creasy has never been plainer, begging Britain to hand power to Corbyn and his anti-Semitic, terrorist-supporting mob, then denouncing them the instant they lost.
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These unprincipled charlatans backed a Marxist manifesto, only to turn on it once voters recoiled. Shame on them. It may be too late anyway. Labour looks irredeemably in the grip of hard-left cranks. Do Phillips and Wes Streeting really need five more years of this? We look forward to a bloodletting like this once-great party has never seen.
“Change is coming”, Corbynistas used to say, with no little menace.
It sure is.
