Tories must concentrate on dismantling Jeremy Corbyn as his ideas gain traction
The Labour leader is gaining popularity after the financial crisis and years of cuts, unaffordable rent and unreliable trains
Fixing Britain
THE Tories must renew their focus on Britain’s problems — and on dismantling or countering Corbyn fantasies which the public is increasingly swallowing.
Most voters dislike Corbyn himself. But his ideas are gaining traction after the financial crisis and years of cuts.
Homes are unaffordable, rents too, trains unreliable, police are depleted and in disarray with crime soaring, huge corporations dodge tax yet pay some undeserving executives obscene sums.
Our schools, NHS and social care are struggling. And despite our tax burden being at its highest in a generation, most Brits want NEW taxes to shore them up.
So it’s an easy win for Labour to claim it will only hammer the rich, while putting workers on company boards, renationalising everything in sight and enforcing a “fairer” society.
Capitalism’s image is in crisis. The Tories must show it creates wealth, jobs and all the conveniences we enjoy — and how socialism unfailingly ends in ruin.
But rubbishing Corbyn isn’t enough.
Our problems need fixing. The Tories need an agenda beyond Brexit or they are sunk.
Better off out
WHATEVER Dominic Raab says, Theresa May’s deal is better than staying in the EU.
Why? First, we would be out. The chance may never come again. Second, Brexit is what Britain chose when MPs handed us the decision — and it is a dangerous fantasy to think we could ever just return to life as it was before June 2016.
The nation would be hideously divided for decades. Euroscepticism would explode into hatred for a Brussels that bullied us into a rethink. There would be a surge in extremism. And a tsunami of rage at a London elite that nullified 17.4million mainly working-class votes.
We doubt Remain would win a second vote. Even if it did, life could not just go on like the first never happened.
It’s too late.
Cod help us
IF this Brexit agreement has been a nightmare, wait till we try for a trade deal.
Look at the EU, demanding we now give up fishing rights we thought secure. Or Spain, threatening to sabotage the Withdrawal Agreement over Gibraltar.
It doesn’t have a veto now. But it will on trade. So will every EU country and even certain regions within them.
Every ancient grudge will be weaponised. All the while, we could be trapped in the debilitating Irish “backstop”.
We must somehow avoid it.
Our star man
N’GOLO Kante’s taxes will fund 300 nurses.
But the admirable Chelsea ace puts shifty corporations to shame by refusing to lower his bill via offshore havens.
Class, as they say, is permanent.