Don’t let Labour’s malicious lies spread

MUSING in the 18th Century about the rapid dissemination of information, satirist Jonathan Swift wrote: ‘Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.’

Jeremy Corbyn must fervently hope the maxim is correct after wheeling out some pungent whoppers about the Tories. Clearly, the desperate Marxist will stoop extremely low to seize No10.

Mendaciously, he claims the Tories want to ‘sell the NHS’ to Donald Trump – even though the American President denies it.

He asserts under Boris Johnson medicine prices will soar £500million a week. Falling food safeguards would mean maggotinfested orange juice in shops. And environmental standards and workers’ holidays will be slashed.

Let’s not pussyfoot around: These are all despicable lies. But that’s what Corbyn wants voters to talk about during the election. He doesn’t want them to focus on the disgusting anti-Semites, racists and 9/11 conspiracy theorists standing for Labour.

Heaven forbid the public recoils from his crippling economic policies, including the eye-watering £17billion cost of a four-day week. Certainly, he hopes people forget how he backed Vladimir Putin during the Salisbury chemical attack. And his party’s stance (or lack of) on Brexit is a joke.

Corbyn has little in his armoury beyond repugnant smears and negativity. But it’s imperative Boris fights back – to ensure the lies aren’t halfway across Britain before the Tories have pulled on their boots.