The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Conservative posters vandalised in Fife
SNP spokesman condemns graffiti and says boards from all parties hit
Conservative campaign posters have been defaced and destroyed in northeast Fife.
Five signs, placed in fields along the A92 south of Newport, were vandalised in various ways by unknown assailants.
Some were ripped down, while others had paint thrown across them. One was painted yellow, with “SNP” written in black across its face.
Tony Miklinski, the Tory candidate for North East Fife, said: “People can draw their own conclusions about who is responsible for this vandalism. But anyone who doesn’t respect the democratic process isn’t fit to run our country.
“This just makes Conservatives all the more determined to stand up for the rule of law and democracy.”
An SNP spokesman condemned the graffiti, adding that boards from all parties have been vandalised during multiple election campaigns.
He said: “People of all political persuasions should campaign with respect at all times.”
Meanwhile, Theresa May has claimed that Jeremy Corbyn is not prepared for Brexit talks that will start within days of the general election and would find himself “alone and naked” in the negotiations.
The Prime Minister launched a ferocious assault on the Labour leader’s fitness to run the country, insisting he has no plan for extracting the country from the European Union.
Speaking in Wolverhampton, Mrs May said, with Brexit talks due to begin 11 days after the June 8 election, a “revealing” TV broadcast had shown “I am ready to go, Jeremy Corbyn is not”.
Mrs May’s speech came amid reports that campaign chief Sir Lynton Crosby has told her to refocus the campaign on the choice of leader to oversee Brexit, after a clutch of polls showed Labour narrowing the gap in the race for Number 10.
Turning her fire directly on her rival for the premiership, Mrs May said: “He is simply not ready to govern and not prepared to lead.”
Evoking one of Labour’s most revered figures, Nye Bevan, who pleaded with colleagues not to send a foreign secretary “naked into the conference chamber”, in a party row over nuclear disarmament, Mrs May said: “Last night showed that Jeremy Corbyn’s minders can put him in a smart blue suit for an interview with Jeremy Paxman, but with his position on Brexit he will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the European Union.”
Mrs May claimed that smaller parties were “queuing up” to form a coalition with Mr Corbyn and warned, in an era of shock election results, voting for any party other than the Conservatives would be “too big a risk to take” for those who did not want to see the Labour leader in 10 Downing Street.