The Government must act on its fury as talk is cheap when it comes to the militant left
Theresa May must greet her words with concrete action as Brits are facing abject misery thanks to striking unions
THE Government’s rage at the strike unions means little without concrete action.
Theresa May can only go on so long merely denouncing the “contempt” these militant clowns have for ordinary people trying to get to work or go on holiday.
She needs to change the law so Marxist goons who cite unfounded “safety fears” as a smokescreen for their plot to topple the Government are stripped of their power to inflict misery on millions.
Politically these strikes are no danger to her. They will only shred what’s left of the unions’ reputation and Labour’s too, since it blindly backs all walkouts.
Imagine how that will go down at election time. But we do not believe the PM can wait for an election before taking the war to the militants.
The RMT’s president secretly admits they “strive to replace the capitalist system with a socialist order”. And not at the ballot box, but via chaos.
This is causing hardship right NOW.
Mrs May must do more than talk tough against these saboteurs.
Aid outrage
How can anyone still justify giving away a set percentage of our annual wealth, with the daily scandalserupting from the Government’s international aid department?
Our £12billion annual donation is far more than Britain can properly oversee.
Some does save lives. But in the race to dispose of 0.7 per cent of our GDP, a fortune is also showered on absurd whims and unchecked schemes. Some unwittingly lines dictators’ pockets.
So much cash is sloshing around that we now dump billions into World Bank trust funds, where it sits unused.
Consider the insanity of it. Britain, hugely in debt, borrows billions for aid, then hands it to an international fund which charges us £241million in admin.
Imagine the hospitals such vast sums could build, or the transformation they could effect on our social care system.
International Development Secretary Priti Patel can only do so much. She is tied hand and foot by the law setting the 0.7 per cent figure in stone. Downing Street must wake up and repeal it.
Taxpayers of course support carefully considered life-saving measures abroad.
But not billions splurged on “feelgood” frivolities as old folk in Britain suffer.
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