Bitter Remainers who desert the Tories won’t bring about ‘soft Brexit’ or second referendum — only chaos, paralysis and hopeless division
Leave or Remain preference is irrelevant — what matters is the gulf in ability between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn
WHAT would bitter Remainers who voted Tory in 2015 hope to gain by deserting them this time?
What if, in a fit of pique over the referendum, enough voted Lib Dem in certain marginals that they cost Theresa May her currently slim majority?
It would not lead to a “soft Brexit”, nor a second referendum.
It would lead to utter chaos, paralysis and hopeless division as we try to negotiate with the EU.
At worst it could install Jeremy Corbyn and his Marxist mates in No10, “governing” in coalition with the SNP and Lib Dems.
Next door a Shadow Chancellor bent on “overthrowing capitalism” would borrow half a trillion pounds.
The economy would implode, the Pound would be worthless, taxes would soar.
Brexit — hard, soft, scrambled or poached — would be the last thing on anyone’s mind then.
Of course such a calamity is virtually impossible to imagine.
But the election does boil down to the gulf in ability between May and Corbyn as contenders for Prime Minister.
Consider that, and your Leave or Remain preference doesn’t much matter.
Aid own-goal
NO ONE doubts some of our foreign aid saves or improves lives.
Imagine if it didn’t.
To keep citing that to defend dishing out a legally binding 0.7 per cent of our GDP each year is facile.
The reality is this blunt formula also locks us into wasting monstrous sums.
Civil servants cannot find enough genuine causes to lavish £13billion on — or check it gets into the right hands.
And we don’t have this money to start with.
We are borrowing every penny.
Theresa May has an understandable political motive for persisting with yet another hasty David Cameron pledge which she must know is crazy.
But she should understand this too: There will be a revolt if her Chancellor argues for increasing our taxes while this absurd commitment is still in place.
Nasty party
ONE sneering remark from a Labour MP neatly exposes the infantile stupidity of the hard Left.
Clive Lewis, hilariously thought of as a future leader, branded people considering voting Tory rich and callous.
Leave aside that it is bone-headedly dumb to abuse people you have to attract to win an election.
This slur tells you everything about the far-Left’s childlike worldview — of goodies and baddies, all defined by how we vote.
If that’s all they understand, though, here’s a little reminder for them: Just one major party cosies up to truly bad people — IRA murderers, homophobic anti-Semitic Islamist terrorists, totalitarian religious regimes and evil Left-wing dictators.
That’s right.
Corbyn’s Labour.