Theresa May and the Tories should have nothing to fear from Labour’s three IRA stooges
Now manifestos are out the way the gloves can come off - and anyway, today's voters are concerned about Brexit, not pensions
SHOCKING news for the Tories. A new Survation poll suggests Labour is on a roll and Theresa May’s dream of a landslide election is over.
Voters are startled by plans to rejig pensions and social care to help the poorest. Instead of a stunning 200-seat majority, Mrs May will have to settle for a paltry 94.
Don’t worry. She’ll do much better than that. Now the party manifestos are out of the way, the gloves will come off.
Today’s voters are concerned about jobs and Brexit. Pensions are for tomorrow.
People who never backed the Tories will vote for the leader who will do best for their immediate prospects.
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That cannot be Jeremy Corbyn. Jezza doesn’t believe in Britain. He detests the country he was born in, its history and all it stands for.
So do his batty ex-girlfriend Diane Abbott and rasping Marxist John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor.
At any other time, this trio would be dismissed as barking and irrelevant.
But thanks to Labour’s former leader Ed Miliband, they are running Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.
What a travesty! They don’t know the meaning of loyalty.
Along with assorted Trots, Marxists and paid-up Communists who have invaded the Labour Party, they are traitors to the British people. They have spent their political lives fighting for our enemies and standing up for those who wish us harm.
In their youth they hailed Soviet tyrants such as Stalin and China’s Chairman Mao. Now they revere Russia’s ruthless Vladimir Putin and firebrand Islamics.
They stood shoulder-to-shoulder with “friends” in Hezbollah and Hamas and campaigned for IRA murderers who killed the Queen’s cousin, among others, in a vicious war against the British state.
Forget about “freedom fighters” nobly crusading against UK tyranny.
The Provos were cold-eyed killers who slaughtered innocent men, women and — despicably — any children who got in their way.
They bombed pubs, offices and shopping centres with no military significance.
Victims included countless Catholic fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, tortured, knee-capped or buried in secret graves as suspected informants.
In 1984 I was in Brighton when the IRA bombed the Grand hotel, killing five and leaving Norman Tebbit’s wife, Margaret, permanently paralysed.
They intended to murder Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet — and very nearly succeeded. Days later, Jeremy Corbyn hosted a gathering of Irish hardliners in the House of Commons.
In 1986 he was nabbed at an Old Bailey protest where Brighton bomber Patrick Magee was convicted of the murders.
A year later, Corbyn told a rally for eight IRA gunmen shot dead in an SAS ambush: “I am happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for Irish independence.”
Now, having allied himself with the killers, he has the nerve to claim he was helping the peace process.
At the time there was NO peace process. The IRA only came to the negotiating table when — despite Corbyn’s best efforts — they were defeated.
Sheeplike Corbyn was deluded by IRA propaganda — what the Kremlin used to call a “useful idiot”.
So was his pillion-riding ex-squeeze Diane Abbott who, in 1984, insisted she was not British at all.
“Ireland is our cause,” she said. “Every defeat for the British state is a victory for all of us.”
John McDonnell is smarter, nastier and more sinister than both of them. Asked in 2010 what he would do if he could travel through time, he said: “I’d go back . . . and assassinate Thatcher.”
None of them could be relied on to defend Britain from any conceivable military threat. Corbyn wants to hand the Falklands back to Argentina in a power-sharing deal.
He denies he is a pacifist but cannot think of any military action he would support since the Second World War.
He has destroyed the point of our nuclear deterrent, saying he can’t imagine ever pressing the button.
There are just over three weeks to go until the General Election.
Once decent British citizens have taken a close look at this dangerous crew of bewildered zealots, I think Mrs May’s landslide is still on.
I can't wait to see David Davis give Brussels a bashing
BREXIT chief David Davis is enjoying himself. Having spent most of his life trying and failing to be Tory leader, he is now doing the job he was born for.
This trained SAS bruiser with a sunny smile is the perfect negotiator to deal with EU hoods waiting to ambush Britain in Brussels next month.
Remainers assume European leaders hold all the cards and will present a united front against a wobbly UK. Far from it. They are already squabbling like rats in a sack over their greedy ransom demands.
Davis is a seasoned EU negotiator. He relishes a fight. And refreshingly, he is ready to walk away if pushed too far.
If this is a Battle for Britain, I can’t wait for DD-Day.