Never in our history has a UK election thrown up such a clear-cut and obvious choice for Sun readers
A simple choice for Sun readers
NEVER in The Sun’s history has an election thrown up a choice so clear-cut and a conclusion so obvious for our readers.
It is between an extremist Labour Party longing to test their teenage Marxism to its inevitable destruction, taking our economy and the security and prosperity of millions of families with it.
Or a Tory party which was serious, grown-up and honest yesterday about Britain’s problems and the difficult solutions to them.
Life is complicated, as said — and wiser voters will instinctively distrust the deceitful simplicity of ’s offer: free this, free that, and the rich cheerfully paying the bill.
Corbyn played to his gallery and took no risks. Mrs May did. Because the “tough choices” Britain must make are hard for her politically, since some will make traditional Tories poorer.
Ending the pensions triple lock and taking winter fuel payments from richer OAPs, for instance, is dead right to tackle the gulf in living standards between young and old.
The Sun campaigned for it. But some Tory-inclined pensioners may not fancy voting for it.
The PM’s assault on fatcat corporations who rip Brits off won’t endear her to some on the right either.
But someone had to act. They laugh at the watchdogs set up to rein them in.
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There was plenty we liked in the manifesto. The plan to fund social care through property values and ease pressure on the NHS. Action to force the web giants to clean up their act.
Tighter foreign aid rules. Cash for jails and cops. A new commissioner to fight extremism. Reform of Westminster and the debased honours system.
An end to “Leveson 2”, Section 40 and the left-wing war on the free press. And of course Mrs May’s full commitment to , to securing the best deal from the EU while leaving the single market and customs union.
We are not fans of all they are proposing.
It is depressing we will not pay our crippling deficit down to zero before 2025. That’s 15 years since first set about fixing Labour’s mess . . . 15 years of stagnant wages, years more “hard choices”.
Stubbornly sticking to the random “tens of thousands” migrant target is wrong. And we want far more revolutionary ideas about the future of the NHS, perhaps examined by a Royal Commission.
Pumping in billions more, as the Tories intend, is a mere sticking plaster.
On June 8 you could vote for Corbyn’s socialist shambles, the Lib Dems’ Remainer Resistance or the pointless, rudderless .
But let’s get real.
The Tories alone will see Brexit through while keeping our economy on track, taxes low and taking serious and bold action to improve Sun readers’ lot.
It’s a no-brainer.