Don’t let Labour and SNP wreck Britain

THIS was the day Nicola Sturgeon let the cat out of the bag. After weeks of hinting and batting her eyelids, the Scottish nationalist leader finally admitted that her party would prop up a Corbyn- led government on an ‘issue-by-issue basis’.

In other words: vote Labour and the SNP will call the shots.

This is a party, remember, which is viscerally opposed to Brexit and remains determined to break up the United Kingdom (though Scots decisively rejected independence less than three years ago).

Moreover, the SNP has an appalling record of squandering taxpayers’ money while letting Scotland’s public services decay – most notably the education system, once second to none in the UK.

Voters should also note Miss Sturgeon is a keen advocate of swingeing tax increases to fund her spending ambitions – but only if they fall hardest on England!

Indeed, nobody should be surprised that this hypocritical opportunist is cosying up to Mr Corbyn. For where economic illiteracy is concerned, they are two peas in a pod. Both believe in a magic money tree, whose fruits will fund lavish promises no government could ever keep.

We have news for them. Money for public services and handouts doesn’t grow on trees. It grows by the hard work of millions of taxpayers and ministers’ efforts to create a climate in which businesses can flourish.

In this, the Tories have been astonishingly successful. On their watch, 2.5million more people are in work, consumer confidence is at a new high, growth is among the strongest in the developed world and investment is flooding in.

Only yesterday, defying the dire predictions of Project Fear, Britain’s stock market touched an all-time peak, with the value of companies up £400billion since the referendum.

You don’t need an economics degree to see how these successes would turn to dust – along with jobs and tax revenues – if Mr Corbyn and Miss Sturgeon take charge.

This is what is at stake on Thursday. Britain is doing remarkably well, with the promise of a bright future after Brexit if Mrs May gets the mandate she needs. For God’s sake, don’t let’s wreck it.