Cross-party Brexit talks are an excuse for Remainers to make a last stand
It would be a betrayal of last year’s vote for the Tories to substantially soften their stance on leaving European Union
Brexit backslide
CROSS-party Brexit talks are an opportunistic excuse for a Remainers’ last stand.
We recognise the need to get a Commons majority for an agreed position.
But it would be a betrayal of last year’s vote, and electoral suicide, for the Tories to substantially soften their stance.
Europhiles such as Nicky Morgan and Anna Soubry want Theresa May to compromise on the single market, customs union and immigration.
They claim voters sent that message last Thursday. We don’t buy it.
A majority backed Brexit last June. It means controlling our borders, laws and money, as both sides made clear.
Last week 82 per cent voted for the two main parties, both committed to full control of immigration. Labour’s position is to leave the single market.
The PM must beware. Back-pedalling could fatally split the Tories, give Ukip a route back and ensure election defeat.
No matter how wedded Tory Remainers are to Brussels, a Marxist takeover of Britain surely cannot be what they want.
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Don’t drop debt
THE Tories may be on the ropes but they must not now sacrifice their reputation for economic competence.
Some may scoff at that. But consider their record against the alternative:
The last Labour government which dumped us in this mire. And Corbyn’s wannabe Labour government whose crazy tax and spending plans would put us right back there and far worse.
The Tories will have to spend some money AND ditch the most toxic savings within their grim-but-honest manifesto. A pity, that, since rich pensioners should lose a perk or two and fund their social care. But OAPs voted against it.
Young people voted Labour for “hope” and freebies. Others did so to end austerity and see more spent on public services.
Cuts cost votes, against a Labour Party making lavish promises and lying about how easily it can fund them.
But the deficit run up by Gordon Brown is still enormous. Britain is still hugely in debt. The Government cannot give up on that or future generations will suffer worse than this.
Where will savings come from to fund new spending, if not the aid budget?
The Tories need an answer fast.
Purge the web
FINES in the tens of millions are drops in the ocean for Google or Facebook.
We applaud Theresa May and President Macron championing a purge of extremist material on the web. But the punishments must be enough for the world’s richest firms to genuinely fear.
They seem more worried about preserving “free speech” for hate preachers whose sermons inspire slaughter.
Every major nation must back huge deterrents and make tech giants come to their senses . . . by hurting their profits.