Fact vs Marxist fiction

ANOTHER day, another Socialist myth exploded. Remember how the Left warned that tuition fees would put working-class students off higher education? Now it emerges the opposite is true.

Indeed, the proportion of poorer pupils going to university has doubled since fees were introduced two decades ago, allowing a huge expansion of places by institutions no longer wholly dependent on the Treasury.

But then when did the Labour leader ever allow facts to interfere with his half-baked Marxist theories?

Take his constant claims that under the Tories, the rich have become richer and the poor poorer. In fact, the income gap between rich and poor has shrunk to its lowest in a generation – with the rich paying a higher proportion of tax than ever. Meanwhile the Social Mobility Commission, led by Labour ex-minister Alan Milburn, proclaims great successes in ridding inner cities of poverty.

Or take Mr Corbyn’s claim that increasing corporation tax rates will boost Treasury revenues. In fact, the yield from the tax has soared 50 per cent since the Tories began cutting the rate from 28 to 19 per cent.

With Britain steadily becoming a more equal society, can voters really be prepared to jeopardise everything by putting a Marxist in No 10?

HEARTY congratulations to the students of Somerville College, Oxford, who have shown that rare quality, common sense, in voting against unisex toilets. Is it too much to hope this is the start of a backlash against the Left’s crazy obsession with ‘gender neutrality’?