Jeremy Corbyn’s U-turn on tuition fees debt is jaw-dropping and only a ruse to persuade voters

PERHAPS he deserves some credit for being so open about his own uselessness, but Jeremy Corbyn’s U-turn on tuition fees debt is jaw-dropping.

The Labour leader’s claim that his promise to abolish student debt was meaningless is certainly an original approach to persuading voters that he deserves the keys to Number Ten.

Speaking a week before polling day the Labour leader was unambiguous.

Referring to the tuition fee debts of students, he said, “I will deal with it”.

Now he wants us to believe that when he said, “I will” he meant, “I won’t”.

And in any case, he says he was “unaware of the size” of the debt burden.

How could he have been expected to know it would cost £100billion? It’s not as if he wants to be put in charge of the nation’s finances.

Not so much the economics of the madhouse as just another example of what counts for normal in Corbyn’s Labour.

Diesel weasels

IN 2001, then-Chancellor Gordon Brown cut the duty on diesel. He wanted to encourage motorists to switch because diesel cars emit less carbon than petrol.

The incentive was so successful that the number of diesel cars doubled, from 3.45 million to eight million today.

Now we know diesel cars emit dangerously high levels of particulates — tiny soot particles — and nitrogen oxides.

The wheel has turned full circle and the Government wants to get diesel vehicles off the roads.

There are fears that when the Air Quality Plan is published in the next few days taxes on diesel cars and vans will be hiked.

But it would be wrong to punish the drivers who simply did what the Labour Government asked and switched.

Instead of putting up taxes on diesel drivers, the fair solution is to give them tax breaks to go back to petrol.

The horrordays

THE heavens have opened.

Flights are being cancelled across the country. Flooding is causing mayhem. Roads are facing traffic chaos.

Who needs a calendar?

It can only be the British summer.

Take a stand

PART of being British is battling against an army of jobsworths.

The Tower Hamlets Council officials who shut down a five-year-old girl’s lemonade stand have been well and truly put in their place.

Shamed, the council has waived the fine. Now she’s had dozens of offers to set up her stall.
The council look like right lemons.