Jeremy Corbyn’s Marxist masterplan would transform Britain into a crumbling ruin of a country with massive tax rises
Jeremy Corbyn has a vision for Britain where aspiration is crushed and success punished by massive tax rises
Doom & bust
SO there it is, in full: Jeremy Corbyn’s Marxist masterplan to transform Britain. And transform it he certainly would . . .
Where all companies are penalised, but the best payers are kneecapped.
Where class war and envy are Government policy. Where there’s a free ride on offer — assuming the rich stick around long enough to pay the bill.
Corbyn was introduced on stage for his manifesto launch by a bus driver apparently backing Labour mainly for a pay rise and more days off. And the Great Leader was then cheered on by naive leftie students all desperate to spend three years at uni for free.
No matter that the tuition fees he would abolish for them have dramatically increased the intake of students from low-income families — who know the debt is paid back pretty painlessly.
To hell with them, cry the Corbynistas. Turn back the clock! Let someone else pay our £11billion bill!
It almost goes without saying that the “fully costed” manifesto, with its monstrous spending pledges, has a black hole so vast it could suck in galaxies.
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That hammering middle-class professionals with crippling taxes is a tried-and-tested surefire way to wreck an economy and public services with it.
That high taxes kill enterprise, drive away investment and destroy jobs. That nationalising industries guarantees chaos and nationwide shutdowns once Corbyn’s union puppetmasters reclaim the powers Maggie Thatcher took from them.
Or that the manifesto was packed with ludicrous guesswork, laughably dodgy research and blatant falsehoods.
But we do commend Corbyn’s mob for being upfront enough to publish it all. They cannot now say they never had a chance to try it out on voters.
We believe the verdict — of the many, not the few — will be merciless on June 8.
God help Britain if it isn’t.
Pay worries
EVEN if the latest inflation rise to 2.7 per cent is just a blip, the Government must not be complacent.
We must get growth up and taxes down. Let’s hear from the Tories how they’ll do it.
Evil incarnate
IAN Brady was despicable to the end.
Some claim he simply forgot where in the vastness of Saddleworth Moor he buried Keith Bennett.
Others close to the case say that’s not so. That keeping it a secret was the only power he had left and he cherished it.
Whatever the truth, Brady was a sadistic psychopath of exceptional evil.
The world is a better place without him.