Defeat signals a horrifying future
AFTER seven years of imposing brutal austerity, the Tories are set for a landslide on June 8. The prospect of unrestrained Conservative rule until 2022, coupled with the likelihood of an extremely hard Brexit is horrifying.
I despair for my grandchildren, the elderly, the sick and the disabled, for the current and yet-to-be unemployed, for teachers and nurses, plus all low-paid dedicated workers.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Paul Methven Winscombe, Somerset
Having been a Labour voter all my life I’m amazed by the complacency of the party after the local elections and the number of councils lost to the Conservatives.
Why? It can only be that many supporters like myself can’t find it in their hearts to vote for the likes of Corbyn and Abbott.
Please, Mr Corbyn, if you are an honourable man – as I think you are – resign and take Abbott with you. We need a real Labour party not just a comedy team for the Tories to
make fun of.
Eric Roberts, St Helens, Lancs
The Tories must be laughing themselves to sleep at night at the way they managed to convince voters not to vote on local issues but on Brexit.They conned people in the local elections just as they will in the forthcoming General Election. People need to wake up to the Tory lies and the opposition parties must do more to tell people to vote on this Government’s appalling record.
If not, they will continue to destroy the NHS and the education system, as well as dropping the triple-lock on pensions and increasing taxes for the less well off while rewarding their wealthy backers.
Mick Streets, Chesterfield, Derbys
As a life-long Labour voter it would be easy for me to lay the blame for the collapse of Labour, as witnessed in the local elections, at the feet of Corbyn. But I don’t.
The blame lies squarely at the feet of the left-wing membership who voted him in. For the first time in my life I am tempted to vote for a Prime Minister as opposed to a party – and I believe there are millions like me.
The left-wing MPs who will lose their seats on June 8 will get what they deserve for taking Labour down this rocky road.
Roger Grant Thurnscoe, South Yorks
Many working class people voted for Brexit and, as the local elections proved, May is using this to con the country into believing she is on the side of ordinary people, as well as her super-rich friends.
She will mellow on negotiations as soon as she is in power.
If we become a one-party state it will be a bad day for Britain. It would be wise to remember that we reap
what we sow.
Roy Madin, Chesterfield, Derbys
Labour called a snap early election in 1970 and went into it with a smug complacency that they would win. Theresa May exudes that same smug complacency, or is it hubris? Let us hope that the same thing happens to her on June 8 as it happened to Harold Wilson 47 years ago. Derek McMillan Worthing, West Sussex