Brexit has routinely and wrongly copped the blame for every negative development since last June

Brexit blame

BREXIT has routinely and wrongly copped the blame for every negative development since last June.

So it has again as inflation outstrips pay rises for the first time in three years.

True, the weaker Pound is increasing prices.

But pay is also kept down by the huge number of EU migrants prepared to work for less than Brits.

We don’t blame them for coming to Britain to improve their lot.

But it is bound to cut national pay growth when the 250,000 eastern Europeans in manufacturing alone are “more likely to work more hours and earn lower wages”.

Firms must wean themselves off cheap labour, as Migration Watch says.

On the plus side, we also have the highest employment since 1971 and the lowest unemployment since 1975.

And confidence is rocketing among small firms whose exports are booming.

Remainers are oddly quiet about that.

Boot Len out

IT’S hard to imagine the UK’s biggest union NOT being run by far-Left fanatics like Len McCluskey.

But it doesn’t have to be.

Hundreds of thousands of sensible Sun readers are Unite members.

They now have a chance to boot out Red Len as General Secretary and replace him with a moderate focused solely on THEM, not on propping up the witless Jeremy Corbyn.

McCluskey has poured a fortune of Unite’s cash into Labour coffers to ­further his delusional aim of installing a hard-Left puppet Government in Downing Street.

That’s not how most members want their subscriptions spent.

The Sun won’t see eye to eye with his challenger Gerard Coyne on everything. Far from it.

But a vote for him today could see the back of McCluskey and pull the rug from under Corbyn and his Marxist mob.

Who knows? Britain might then get an Opposition worth the name.

Boris backer

THE absurd clamour to mock Boris Johnson blinds his left-wing critics to the rights and wrongs of the atrocities in Syria.

Assad, backed by Vladimir Putin, is gassing kids. That cannot stand.

For years the left’s darling Barack Obama stood by wringing his hands at such outrages.

Donald Trump took limited military action that was justified and proportionate.

Incredibly, when our Foreign Secretary couldn’t get the G7 to agree sanctions against Russia there were squeals of delight from the left.

But he was right.

The shame falls not on Boris but on those countries who bottled out.

And those in Britain whose sneering contempt for him has put them on the wrong side of the argument.