Theresa May faces her biggest test to sell post Brexit Britain to the world
Why the public must defy the striking doctors who are losing sympathy with their demands
Theresa’s test
TOMORROW Theresa May faces her biggest test yet — she must sell post-Brexit Britain to the world.
The PM intends to tell the G20 we are still strong and dependable. True, but we are now far more than that.
We are open to business in a way we have not been for 43 years.
Once our divorce from Brussels is complete we can establish free trade with any nation we choose.
We can be a magnet for investment, a stable country in a tumultuous world.
Short on red tape, low on tax.
Apple’s huge Irish tax bill this week was well deserved, given how much it avoided here. But paradoxically this was also the EU at its meddling worst, over-ruling tax rates in a member state.
How much better off Britain will be, free from such a threat.
This new openness may sound at odds with the PM halting the China-funded Hinkley Point nuclear plant. But she should.
Security concerns aside, it’s a rotten deal for taxpayers.
George Osborne always seemed pitifully grateful for Chinese money.
That mindset, like much else since June 23, has to change.
Defy the docs
PUBLIC support for the militant doctors is crumbling. By the end of their first five-day strike it will have turned to anger.
More and more fellow medics — veterans and juniors — are outraged that the profession’s impeccable standing is being wrecked by naive left-wing agitators whose position is now indefensible.
They are led by a union chief who now considers “catastrophic” the same deal she had championed as “safe and fair”.
The Hippocratic Oath, binding doctors to keep patients from harm, has been cast aside. While a one-day strike is an irritation, the sole point of a five-day stoppage is to inflict absolute chaos on the NHS and pain on the vulnerable.
This they will blame on the Government. Because they now fancy themselves as an unelected opposition to the Tories most of them fashionably despise.
Colleagues with a conscience must defy this politicised tantrum. And if and when patients suffer and die, the GMC must end the careers of those who abandoned them over a wage dispute.
They will never be fit to practise.
Bailout is loco
IT is sickening that Southern Rail got a £20million taxpayer bailout as its parent company sat on a near-£100million profit.
Yes, the chaos on its routes is mainly the fault of RMT union bullies.
But why isn’t the Go-Ahead Group using its bulging coffers to improve its own shambolic service?
London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants the franchise handed to Transport for London and it’s difficult to disagree.
It could hardly be worse.