Election will root out self-serving Tories

NO wonder Tories are running scared of a General Election when a poll puts Labour five points ahead and Jeremy Corbyn would become Prime Minister.

I readily acknowledge others have the Conservatives leading but the possibility of a radical socialist Government in power is why clinging to high office is all that unites terrified Tories.

So we see selfish personal and political interests cynically elevated above anything that could remotely be called the national interest.

Egotistical former Cabinet Ministers Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab voted for a bad Brexit deal they resigned to oppose. They calculated the PM prize would be more likely to fall in their lap when Tories play pass the parcel with Downing Street’s keys. Both deserve to be ruled out of the running for their unprincipled scampering.

When Tory austerity gave us Tory Brexit, it’s a no-brainer for Labour to fight both poisonous right-wing attempts to divide and rule working people. Corbyn’s in a position, if he uses it, to save Britain falling out of Europe disastrously, saving jobs and livelihoods, public services and decent internationalist values from the bigoted insularity of the Johnsons, Goves, Jacob Rees-Moggs, Farages and thuggy marauding mobs.

David Cameron’s folly is destroying his own party as the Tories mutate into extremist Blukip. Zombie May is hypocritical to consider a fourth vote on her rubbished Brexit plan while denying ordinary folk a second vote. Ignoring surveys, polls, petitions and marches demonstrating the national view has changed – a majority wanting to stay in Europe – is to shackle ourselves to an old referendum under a redundant PM in a previous Parliament. That’s tyranny not democracy. The official Leave campaign fronted by Johnson and Gove now abandoning its appeal against a £61,000 fine for breaking electoral law is proof criminality as well as lies conned a 2016 referendum result. Northern Ireland’s DUP deciding it prefers staying in the EU to smashing a Disunited Kingdom may halt the Tories.

With Parliament paralysed, revoking Article 50, a General Election and a fresh referendum are the ways forward.