Corbyn, Abbott and a threat to our security

THERE are so many reasons why a Jeremy Corbyn- led government would be a calamity for this country that it’s hard to know where to start in listing them. The remarkable economic recovery achieved under Tory stewardship since 2010 would be demolished at a stroke, as business was crushed by draconian corporation tax rises and the unions effectively handed control of industrial policy.

Key industries would be renationalised at vast public expense and Britain would embark on a truly reckless programme of State spending that could be funded only by huge extra borrowing and punitive levels of personal taxation.

Brexit negotiations – if they happened at all – would be a farce. Labour claims it would honour the referendum result but remains committed to staying in the single market, even if that means a shabby deal on free movement and UK legislation still being subject to the European Court.

And needless to say, there would be no attempt to limit migration.

But if the first responsibility of any democratic government is the security of its people, it’s Mr Corbyn’s attitude to terrorism that should ultimately disqualify him from ever being prime minister.

This staunch Marxist has made a career out of cosying up to bloodstained men of violence and his glib attempts to deny it over recent days have been grotesque. He has taken tea with IRA bombers, laid a wreath at the grave of a Palestinian militant involved in the Munich massacre and welcomed agents of the Hamas terror group as ‘friends’.

He blames British foreign policy for attacks on innocent men, women and children, has voted 56 times in the Commons against strengthening antiterror legislation and has described Nato – which has protected the West for some 70 years – as ‘a very dangerous Frankenstein of an organisation’. Then of course there’s Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, who also championed the IRA in the 1980s, saying: ‘Every defeat of the British State is a victory for us all.’ She made light of her extremist past yesterday, saying she had changed her afro hairstyle since then and also ‘some’ of her views. ‘We have all moved on,’ she said.

But many victims and their families have been unable to move on. These are not trivial issues to be brushed aside – they are central to our national security.

Ms Abbott aspires to be Home Secretary and take charge of the anti-terror brief, yet makes no apology for siding with Britain’s enemies in a brutal 30-year campaign of insurrection. It simply beggars belief.

There can be no doubt that this country would be an infinitely more dangerous place – as well as a deeply impoverished one – with her and Mr Corbyn at the helm.