Theresa May’s promise to make post-Brexit Britain pro-business will focus minds in Brussels
The PM and the Chancellor need to create a vibrant and dynamic economy in response to the lunacy of John McDonnell and his Marxist vision
Tax and mend
The Prime Minister is right to promise that post-Brexit Britain will be resolutely pro-business.
But reality needs to match rhetoric.
Our tax burden under this Tory government is currently as high as it was under Labour’s Harold Wilson.
Ordinary Brits are pummelled in their pay packet and at the petrol pump.
Our high street is battered by bruising business rates.
And all this before they put up taxes to pay for a promised NHS cash injection, even if nobody knows where that money will be spent yet. If the Chancellor puts up fuel duty, as rumours suggest, he’ll turn the “just about managings” into “no longer managings”.
The PM and Chancellor must grasp the nettle on creating a genuinely vibrant, dynamic economy.
The best response to the swivel-eyed lunacy of John McDonnell’s Marxism is a growing economy with rising living standards.
That means laying out a real plan for a low-tax, free-market Britain.
It might focus minds in Brussels, too.
Labour of hate
Theresa May once said the Tories were known as “the nasty party”, but this week’s Labour Conference has shown it’s the socialists that deserve that title.
It seems almost every member to take the stage has been driven only by anger and envy.
One teaching assistant, whose unpleasantness was matched only by his stupidity, called for increased school spending so no “evil” kids could grow up to vote Conservative.
One union boss declared that he got up early just so he could hate Margaret Thatcher for a little longer in the day. Even Emily Thornberry admits the party is riddled with racists and fascists.
It’s clear that for all Jeremy Corbyn’s claims of a “kinder, gentler politics”, these zealots haven’t changed a jot since they tried to destroy the country in the Seventies and Eighties.
Economically illiterate, morally bankrupt and downright ugly.
A low Vera
Hands up if you know who Vera Jourova is.
No, us neither.
The PM and the Chancellor need to create a vibrant and dynamic economy in response to the lunacy of John McDonnell and his Marxist vision
Turns out Europe’s Justice Commissioner — for it is she — wants new regulation on the media as punishment for reporting the EU’s failings.
This isn’t much of a surprise. This no-mark’s Wikipedia page reveals that she’s enjoyed a lifelong ride on the Brussels gravy train.
Away from plans to muzzle the free Press, another bit of the Brussels beast is refusing to let taxpayers see the details of their MEPs’ expenses.
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So much for increased transparency. It’s not our headlines or our coverage turning people off the EU.
It manages that itself well enough.