Farage’s gang of four are right: the only way IS BORIS

Are we nearly there, Dad? This election seems to have been dragging on for the past five years, not the past five weeks. The good news is that this time next week, rodney, it’ll all be over. The bad news is that we could end up right back where we started. Yet another hung Parliament is on the cards.

Worse, there’s an outside chance that we might wake to find Jeremy Corbyn preparing to move into 10 Downing Street.

Both are very real possibilities, especially if complacency convinces Conservative voters to stay at home and traditional Labour seats in the North and the Midlands revert to type.

The margins in some constituencies are rizla-thin. It wouldn’t take much for a projected Tory majority to disappear in a puff of smoke.

even in the event of a hung Parliament there’s no guarantee Boris could hang on as Prime Minister, since the DUP has rejected his eU deal and would refuse to prop him up.

The Lib Dems say they wouldn’t support a Corbyn government, but the way their share of the vote keeps collapsing there may not be enough of them left to dictate terms to anyone.

If dumping Jezza was the price of cobbling together a coalition, Labour would throw him under the bus in a heartbeat.

Corbyn is only emu, anyway. The sinister John McDonnell is rod Hull and the real power lies with Lenny McCluskey and Momentum. McDonnell has already assured McCluskey and Co that if Labour wins, the union barons will be in government alongside them, armed with new powers to call strikes at the drop of a hat, enforced by the return of aggressive secondary picketing.

Lavish manifesto commitments to introduce a four-day week and renationalise everything from the railways to the water industry reminded me of an old joke doing the rounds in the late Seventies/early eighties when I was an industrial correspondent.

BaCkthen, the unions ruled the roost and strikes were rife. after a 16-week walkout over pay and conditions by workers at the Ford Motor Company in Dagenham, their chief negotiator calls a mass meeting to tell his members they have secured a famous victory.

‘Comrades, management has capitulated to every single one of our demands. They have agreed that every employee will get an immediate 50 per cent pay rise, a company car, free health insurance, 12 weeks holiday a year, a villa in Spain and you’ll only have to work Wednesdays.

‘Brothers and sisters, before I put it to the vote, are there any questions?’

a forest of hands goes up and a voice from the back asks: ‘What,

every bloody Wednesday?’ Still makes me laugh. What isn’t funny, though, is that Ford Dagenham was once the biggest car plant in europe, employing 40,000 people.

Today, all that’s left of this manufacturing colossus is around 1,000 staff knocking out diesel engines for other factories abroad.

If Labour forms a government next week, there will be a frenzied flight of capital overseas. Unemployment will go through the roof. What amuses me is that diehard remainers, who claim they only want to stop Brexit to protect British jobs and investment, are now piling in behind Corbyn, who would turn Britain into an economic basket case.

Still, when did honesty ever have anything to do with politics?

In one respect, this election has been going on for five years — ever since Call Me Dave announced a referendum on our membership of the eU.

We’ve had nothing but wall-towall politics. Not just the referendum, we’re now on our third General election in rapid succession. We’re told this campaign is all about trust. But why should we trust Labour and the other Opposition parties?

Manifesto bribes have been spewed out daily. Yet on the biggest issue of our time, their promises have proved worthless.

When Cameron called the eU referendum, we were guaranteed that the will of the people would be honoured.

That solemn pledge was restated by both main parties in their 2017 manifestoes.

Despite the biggest vote in favour of anything in our history, however, the recalcitrant remainer political class has spent the past three-and-a-half years doing everything in its power to overturn the result.

The only reason we are having this election is that Labour, the Lib Dems and the Scot Nats — aided and abetted by a handful of fanatical Conservative federasts and that appalling pro-eU activist Speaker Bercow — paralysed Parliament in their determination to stop Brexit. Their bovine intransigence not only halted Brexit in its tracks, it made the country ungovernable. Nothing got done.

But instead of a ‘snap’ election to resolve the deadlock, this campaign has dragged on interminably and has been about

anything but Brexit. The Opposition parties have shifted the focus to the NHS, broadband, rail fares, global warming, you name it — to deflect attention from their cynical intention to defy the referendum result and keep Britain in the eU.

another hung Parliament, or a minority Corbyn government, would mean more of the same paralysis. Labour promises a second Brexit referendum, with a rigged question taking Leave off the table.

THeScots Nats will only support Corbyn in exchange for a fresh independence referendum, despite the fact that the last one was supposed to settle the matter ‘for a generation’.

Boris is being accused of breaking his promise to take Britain out of the eU on October 31. But he did everything he could to make that happen. He was thwarted at every turn by the so-called remain alliance.

at least he believes in Brexit, having led the Leave campaign in 2016. If he’d become PM when Call Me Dave ran away, instead of the dreadful Mother Theresa, we’d have been out by now.

It’s no secret that I’d prefer a tungsten-tipped Brexit, Deal or No Deal. I share Nigel Farage’s suspicion of the terms Johnson has negotiated.

But if the withdrawal agreement is good enough for die- hard Leavers such as arron Banks and

Iain Duncan Smith, then it’ll do for me. For now. We can always pick the bones out of it later. If Boris loses, we’ll never leave.

Sadly, having succeeded in getting rid of Mrs May, killing her dismal, defeatist, surrender deal, and helping to install a pro-Leave PM in her place, the Brexit Party is effectively over.

If there’s any justice, the Faragistas will win a few Northern seats, where the Conservatives have no chance, so they can keep Boris honest during the coming trade negotiations.

But elsewhere, as those MePs who resigned the whip yesterday accept, the only way to Get Brexit Done is to vote Tory. The only way to restore confidence in the political process is to vote Tory.

The only way to move forward, to guarantee the agenda switches back to the NHS, education, the police and the myriad other problems neglected because of the obsession with stopping Brexit is to vote Tory.

The only way to stop a Seventies throwback, trade union puppet, tax-and- spend, terrorist stooge plunging Britain into an economic abyss is to vote Tory.

Despite evidence of electoral fraud among students and the absurd statistic that 28 per cent of votes will be cast by post, making them easy to fiddle, if turnout at the polling stations is high enough next Thursday the Conservatives can win a working majority.

Frankly, the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.

So I’m prepared to believe Boris when he says he will Get Brexit Done in January and we will be free of the shackles of the eU by the end of 2020.

If he’s true to his word, we’re nearly there, Dad. and this time next year, rodney . . .