We salute the persistence and courage of the families of the 96 Hillsborough victims
Justice in sight
AT last, nearly 30 years on, six people will stand trial over Hillsborough.
Like all media, we are limited by the law over how much we can comment now they have been charged.
But we salute the persistence and courage of the families of the 96 victims.
Their dogged pursuit of the real truth behind that terrible day in 1989, and its aftermath, has been admirable.
They have sought justice for so long on behalf of those unlawfully killed...
It may finally be within their grasp.
Towering idiocy
FOR all of Labour’s bizarre back-slapping over its election defeat, the Grenfell Tower disaster exposes the gulf in seriousness between the Government and Jeremy Corbyn’s ranting rabble.
At least 80 people died. Theresa May secured homes for survivors, instigated nationwide checks on other buildings and set up a public inquiry.
By contrast Corbyn, with zero evidence, bangs on about the inferno being the “disastrous effect of austerity” and Tory “disregard” for the working class.
This baseless nonsense is so easily discredited it barely needed the PM to do it. Corbyn’s own officials backed away too.
The rogue cladding was first put up under a Labour Government, sometimes by Labour councils, many years before any Tory austerity. There is no evidence cuts led to slapdash safety checks.
Meanwhile Corbyn’s weird sidekick John McDonnell disgustingly alleges politicians “murdered” victims.
Another Labour MP touts a mad conspiracy theory about deaths being covered up.
After this national trauma, the Tories have set about trying to establish facts and prevent a repeat. Labour has invented “facts” for selfish political gain.
And 40 per cent voted for these clowns.
Tax clamour
NEARLY half of us want more public spending, funded by higher taxes. By coincidence nearly half of us pay no income tax.
Are these tax fans volunteering to pay it, or just willing it on others? It would explain the lure of a Labour manifesto of freebies funded by someone else.
We accept that many WOULD stump up extra for the NHS and schools, both under huge pressure from a rapidly rising population. Britain needs clear thinking on just how to raise the money and where to spend it.
It must increase performance, not just give staff a rise.
Meaningful sums would only come from a tax rise across the board. Solely hammering businesses and the rich, as Labour pretends it could, will raise far too little and destroy lower-paid jobs.
It may be time to stop raising the income tax threshold. The tax base is too small.
But we must not ignore the deficit. This vast national overdraft must be cleared.
Ease up now and we simply leave new generations greater hardships than ours.