I just don’t believe it! S

ILITARY spending will rise by 0.5% above inflation every year until 2022 if they win power, boast the Tories.

On what you might ask. Trident? More soldiers? Mother of all bombs?

Possibly, but the bill for brasshat luxury living is rising higher than a barrage balloon.

The MoD spent £233m in 2015/16 on first class travel and top hotels for senior officers and their civil servants.

Service extravagance uncovered by Freedom of Information requests include £800 a night hotel bills in London, despite the availability of barracks and flats for visiting VIPs.

Nothing too good for the officers, naturally, while some squaddies are forced to buy their own food because camp food is so lousy. JEREMY Corbyn came to Kirklees yesterday, but to unwinnable Colne Valley, not the Huddersfield constituency, where Labour veteran Barry Sheerman is fighting to defend a vulnerable majority. Why? Perhaps party chiefs thought it would be counter-productive to stand Jezza next to the statue of four-times election winner Harold Wilson in George Square.

Perhaps Blairite Barry doesn’t want to bring the controversial Corbynista brand into his campaign.

Of course, it might just be that comrade Corbyn likes parks and Beaumont is as good a place as any to spend a quiet Tuesday.

The public were kept largely at bay with an internal party ban on social media mentions.

A bit of a mystery, one way and another. Can’t think why. If you’re proud of your leader, say it out loud. OME people will believe anything because they want to believe.

If Theresa May says black is white, listen for a chorus of agreement from her admirers.

She has said “I lead the workers’ party” and a lot of voters believe that too, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

The Prime Minister made this fraudulent claim, partly to distract attention from the IT crisis in the NHS.

She threw out some vague proposals about time off for caring, greater employee influence on company bosses and unspecified “curbs” on the so-called gig economy.

All subject to consultation – ie watering-down – if she gets back into Downing Street.

I say fraudulent because these are the same people who made it financially ruinous for workers to fight unfair dismissal at an industrial tribunal.

And made hundreds of thousands redundant in local government, the NHS, the police, schools, the civil service and the armed services.

And privatised Royal Mail which led to the sacking of thousands of posties.

And closed all the Remploy factories for disabled workers.

And forced all public service workers to accept real pay cuts – specifically in the NHS, ordered by Jeremy Hunt.

And made it much harder for workers to take lawful industrial action over genuine workplace grievances.

And pushed up the retirement age to 67 and will take it up to 68 and then probably 70, ensuring that many graft all their lives without getting the state pension they’ve paid for.

And presided over huge growth in job insecurity with millions forced into bogus self-employment, zero hours contracts, agency drudgery and limited-hours work.

And slashed in-work benefits, and brought in bounty-hunting private firms to “sanction” as many claimants as possible.

If this is the party of the workers, I am the Count of Monte Cristo and Theresa May is the secret greatgranddaughter of Karl Marx.

Believe that if you wish.