Vote in Welsh interest and force May out

MONDAY’S Western Mail headline quoted Prime Minister May’s observation that the UK has been “Far too tolerant of extremism”. Mrs. May’s chutzpah is almost beyond ridicule, for it is May herself who was Home Secretary for six of the last seven years and then became Prime Minister. It is surely legitimate to ask why this tolerance was permitted under her long tenure at the Home Office.

Certainly her stewardship has had an effect. Police numbers and funding have been drastically reduced, the prison service has been reduced to a state of permanent crisis with staff morale at an all-time low, while immigration numbers, which cause Brexiteers so much angst, have continued to rise. “Strong and stable leadership” indeed! Weak, vacillating and without a clear idea of how to create or undertake policy on anything at all, more like. The reason May can’t reveal government policy in respect of the Brexit negotiations is because there isn’t one. Her principal negotiators didn’t expect to win the Referendum and appear to be utterly bemused by the complexity of the forthcoming negotiations.

The English will almost certainly foist yet another Tory government on all the nations of the UK – and a particularly nasty, right-wing one at that – so it’s important that we in Wales provide as many opposition voices as possible. We can achieve this by voting tactically in certain constituencies. I became disenchanted with Labour some years ago and my natural inclination would be to vote Plaid, but I shall return to voting Labour on polling day as the only realistic way of removing our local constituency’s present incompetent Tory incumbent. I would urge others to do the same.

A large Tory majority would result in the sort of elected dictatorship we now see in Turkey and Russia. The Tories historically have brought nothing but economic and political misery to Wales. Let’s vote in the Welsh interest, not for the Tories or their crypto-fascist chums in Ukip.

I Seaton Mumbles, Swansea