Jeremy Corbyn’s mad Marxism, teen economics and indecision would be a disaster in No10
The Labour leader demonstrated his bumbling indecision in painful BBC interview as he refused to confirm plan of action for UK's EU divorce
PRIME Ministers have to make a dozen hard decisions by lunchtime. Jeremy Corbyn must spend hours wrestling with his conscience over what flavour jam to make.
All his career he has taken predictable, easy hard-Left positions and basked in the adulation of like-minded crowds.
Now, as Labour leader, questioned on policies he is unsure of or only half believes, he is a rabbit in the headlights.
One minute he says Britain’s EU exit was “settled” at the referendum. Later, on TV, he repeatedly can’t confirm he would definitely lead us out as PM.
One minute he’s a West-hating Stop The War agitator. The next he’s forced to talk tough on defence.
One minute he calls himself a chilled-out “Monsieur Zen”. The next he’s play-acting as Mr Angry, threatening a “reckoning” with the “elites” he and his bubble of enraged supporters detest.
The Sun represents no elite. Just our readers, whose aim is to get on in life.
Corbyn’s mad Marxism, his strange view of Britain, his teenage grasp of economics and his bumbling indecision would be a catastrophe for them.
The cap fits
IGNORE the special pleading from the profiteering energy giants. Theresa May’s price cap is the right call.
The Big Six were warned again and again to stop fleecing those on standard variable tariffs. They did nothing but watch their fortunes pile up.
What was the PM meant to do in the face of this open defiance?
We agree it seems un-Conservative to meddle in a free market. But this one, in an essential commodity, is broken. It is still too complex to switch suppliers and too few people even know it’s possible.
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Mrs May can go further to cut bills, though: by slashing green subsidies and getting cracking with fracking.
Three years ago we attacked Ed Miliband for suggesting a price cap. With Mrs May we know it’s the furthest she will go.
With Miliband, the unions’ puppet, it was just the start. That’s the difference.
And as the PM points out, if a policy works who cares where it came from?
It’s a good rule, that: whatever works.
Mend defence
THE cuts the Tories were forced into from 2010 fell far too harshly on our Forces.
Too many other departments were protected for political reasons.
It has gone on too long. The letter from wounded veterans, military chiefs and academics sets out starkly how weakened our defences have become.
The Government has no trouble meeting our ridiculous foreign aid commitment. So let’s stop fiddling the figures and genuinely spend the Nato defence target, two per cent of GDP.
Unlike Labour, the Tories ARE trusted with our Armed Forces.
They must not jeopardise that reputation.