Die-hard Remainers, life-long Labour supporters & Farage fans – it’s time to put our prejudices aside and vote Boris

WITH the General Election fast approaching on Thursday, Britain stands at a crossroads.

One path leads to British independence under Conservative leader Boris Johnson - but the other path follows a far darker course into chaos under Jeremy Corbyn’s Marxist cult.

A Johnson victory should usher in a new age of prosperity and national freedom, while a Corbyn triumph will end in Brexit paralysis and financial bankruptcy.

A Tory Government will ensure that Britain remains an advanced western economy, where taxes are kept down and enterprise encouraged, where as a Labour Government will turn our country into a basket case, wrecked by trade union bullying and the confiscation of wealth.

Every citizen who genuinely cares about our future and cherishes British values therefore has a duty to vote against Corbyn’s hard-left Labour.

In practice, that requires everyone - from Tory Remainers to hard Brexiteers - backing the Tories - because only a vote for Boris Johnson can be guaranteed to prevent a brutal Corbyn regime.

Brits' duty to vote against hard-left Labour

A vote for the Liberal Democrats or the Brexit Party is not a wasted vote in this election -it's something far more dangerous.

It is effectively an act of support for Corbyn, for if there is another hung Parliament he will almost certainly emerge as the new Prime Minister.

The same is true of moderate, centrist Labour voters who kid themselves that they can back their local Labour candidate while still hoping to avoid the calamity of a Corbyn Government.

This is just irresponsible self-deceit. Every vote for Labour brings the Corbyn revolution a step closer.

That catastrophe could easily happen this week.

Tories leading - but polls can be badly wrong

In recent opinion polls, the Tories have maintained a consistent lead over Labour by about 10 per cent - enough for a comfortable majority.

But in some surveys, the gap has fallen to just 6 points, while one poll at the weekend suggested a Conservative majority of just 12.

Moreover, as the last two General Elections proved, the polls can be badly wrong. The result this time could go down to the wire.

What the country needs to ensure Corbyn’s defeat is a vast coalition of voters united by the one aim of keeping him out of Downing Street.

This was meant to be the Brexit election but it has rightly turned into a referendum on Corbyn’s spectacular unfitness for high office.

And the only result should be a wholesale rejection of his bid for power.

To achieve that, all anti-Corbyn voters – no matter what their past allegiances or their personal hostility to Johnson – must vote tactically for the Conservatives.

Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow Chancellor John McDonnell must be stopped

Labour's crumbling 'Red Wall'

Throughout the campaign, Remain supporters have talked feverishly of the potential for anti-Tory tactical voting to stop Brexit.

But far more potent would be a wave of pro-Tory tactical voting to keep out Corbyn.

At the heart of such a drive must lie the millions of decent, patriotic voters in Labour’s heartlands of the North and the Midlands, who have backed the party all their lives but are now profoundly disillusioned with Corbyn.

If they held their noses and supported Johnson, then Labour would face annihilation.

There are already signs that this could be happening.

The so-called “Red Wall” of around 60 Labour marginals from Yorkshire to Wales, characterised by seats like Bolsover in Derbyshire and Crewe in Cheshire, appears to be crumbling.

If a new army of Red Tory voters materialises on Thursday, the damage to Corbyn could be phenomenal.

This week were reports that Labour are even in trouble in Leigh, where Joanne Platt has a majority of almost 10,000 and which is only 125th on the Tories’ target list.

Similarly, the latest poll in the Lincolnshire port of Grimsby, which has been held by Labour for generations, shows a big lead for the Tories.

Lifelong Labour voters switching to Tory

This mood of revolt against political loyalties was captured in the words of one café worker in Labour-held Wrexham, North Wales, who said at the weekend: “I’ve always voted Labour and my family always voted Labour. On Thursday I shall be voting Tory.”

People like her recognise that traditional Labour – the party of Clem Attlee, John Smith and Tony Blair – is now dead, replaced by a dogmatic, intolerant movement dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.

Extravagant pledges dished out like confetti

The election campaign has only reinforced Labour’s unfitness for office.

Lavish pledges of free services and extravagant spending increases have been dished out like confetti, shattering the last remnants of the party’s economic credibility.

Meanwhile, Labour has nothing coherent to say about Brexit beyond the threat of yet more dither and delay.

It is no wonder that the five million Labour voters who backed Leave in the 2016 referendum are in such despair.

Boris himself put it well on a visit to Grimsby yesterday when he said that Labour’s Brexit stance represented “the great betrayal, orchestrated from Islington by politicians who sneer at your values and ignore your votes.”

But it is not just Leave voters who should back the Tories. Remainers who loathe the idea of a Corbyn regime should do so as well.

A hard-left Government is too big a price for stopping Brexit, for which the British people democratically voted three years ago.

Opposition parties acting as Corbyn's allies

The arch pro-EU Tory rebel Dominic Grieve, now standing as an independent in his Beaconsfield constituency, said recently that he was “absolutely satisfied that Mr Corbyn would be a disaster in Downing Street.”

Yet Grieve is making that dire possibility more likely by trying to siphon off votes from the Tory party.

Indeed, all the opposition parties are acting as Corbyn’s allies, whatever their protestations.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, in particular, could still badly split the anti-Corbyn vote in a string of Northern and Midlands seats, like Hartlepool.

The latest poll in the constituency shows the Brexit Party on 23 per cent and the Tories on 31 per cent, a far higher combined total of Labour’s 40 per cent.

In Doncaster North, held by Ed Miliband, Labour is on 43 per cent against a combined total of 48 per cent for the Brexit Party and the Conservatives.

Further south, a vote for Jo Swinson’s Liberal Democrats is realistically a vote for Corbyn, just as in Scotland, support for the SNP will help to propel Corbyn into Downing Street.

The choice is stark. Our country’s security, liberty and growth can only be secured by the return of a Conservative Government.

There is nothing to fear from the continuation in office of Boris Johnson, who stands in the long tradition of one-nation Conservatism epitomised by Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill.

But there is everything to fear from Corbyn’s ascent to power.