APOLOGISTS FOR TERROR
The Mail accuses this troika of befriending Britain’s enemies and scorning the institutions that keep us safe
TODAY, the Daily Mail accuses Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott — the troika who could run the next government — of being unashamed apologists for terror, who have devoted their lives to befriending the enemies of Britain while undermining the very institutions that keep us safe in our beds.
Let us be clear. We have no doubt that Mr Corbyn’s expressions of horror over the atrocities in Manchester and at London Bridge, and his sympathy for the victims and their families, were sincere.
But the ineluctable truth is that the Labour leader and his closest associates have spent their careers cosying up to those who hate our country, while pouring scorn on the police and security services and opposing anti-terror legislation over and over and over again.
Yes, Mr Corbyn has impressed some with his quiet composure under hostile questioning. But he personally has spent a political lifetime courting mass murderers in the Middle East, Ireland and elsewhere in the world, affronting his party and its decent traditional supporters, while voting on 56 occasions against measures aimed at containing the terrorist threat.
Meanwhile, his closest ally, the Marxist shadow chancellor John McDonnell, has called for MI5 and
armed police to be abolished, while saying that the IRA murderers of men, women, children, British servicemen and police officers should be ‘honoured’.
As for Diane Abbott, the clueless and incoherent woman in charge of the security brief, she has voted against anti-terror measures 30 times, while declaring in the past that any defeat of the British state by IRA terrorists was a ‘victory’.
if you doubt what the Mail is saying, turn to Pages 4-7 where we catalogue quote after quote by this deadly troika, in which they damn themselves out of their own mouths.
These pages offer a devastating indictment of the depths to which Labour has sunk, and the naivety of a worrying number of Britons who see these three hard extremists as cuddly idealists prepared to hose money on the British people.
As their own words reveal, it is nothing less than preposterous that Mr Corbyn now poses as the champion of the police, calling on Theresa May to resign and claiming that he will keep us safe by negotiating with bloodthirsty islamist maniacs intent on destroying our way of life.
indeed, his record of flirting with terrorist groups — whose one common factor is hostility to Western liberal democracies — should be enough to prove his utter unfitness for high office.
But there are at least six other compelling reasons why Britain would be nothing short of insane to vote Labour at this juncture in our history.
ONE: THE ECONOMY
AMONG the Tories’ greatest mistakes in this campaign has been their failure to shout from the rooftops how well the economy is doing under their stewardship.
Who would have guessed, when they took charge of a country on its knees in 2010, that today we’d be enjoying some of the strongest growth rates in the developed world, with record employment and consumer confidence, the stock market hovering around an all-time peak and a jobless rate that’s half the European average?
As the Mail’s City Editor Alex Brummer spells out on Page 20, everything we’ve worked so hard for could evaporate overnight under the economically illiterate policies dreamed up by Mr Corbyn and his fellow Marxist Mr McDonnell, who was fired by former London Mayor ‘ Red’ Ken Livingstone as too Left-wing even for him.
Who in his right mind would lend money to a government committed to the mass nationalisation and unfettered union power that came so close to destroying us in the Seventies? And who in his senses could believe Labour’s pie-in-the- sky promises of wage rises all round, a lower state pension age, capped rail fares, free tuition, free childcare — free almost anything you care to mention, all to be paid for with money that simply doesn’t exist?
TWO: TAXATION
WHICH brings us to the party’s plans to raise revenue through borrowing and a bewildering array of taxes on income, wealth, businesses and inheritance, and a levy on land (including gardens) devised specifically to depress house prices.
Firstly, the markets would lend money only at a usurious interest rate if at all to a government led by an extreme Left-winger such as Jeremy Corbyn.
Secondly, it is an incontrovertible law of economics that the more you try to tax people after a certain point, the less you raise.
As for those who are worried about Tory plans, whether for funding social care or means-testing the winter fuel allowance, they can be sure they would be hammered ten times harder by Labour.
Meanwhile, the queue of wealth-producing companies fleeing Britain to set up shop overseas would stretch from Dover to Aberdeen. No, Labour’s manifesto is a blueprint for national destruction, with terrifying implications for living standards, public services and jobs — in the state sector no less than the private.
And as ever in an economic downturn, the poor whom Labour hopes to help would suffer along with everyone else.
THREE: IMMIGRATION
THIS is an issue on which Mr Corbyn and his hard-Left metropolitan clique have shown themselves viscerally at odds with the public — not least with traditional Labour voters.
True, the Tories have failed dismally in the past to hit their target of cutting net immigration to the ‘tens of thousands’. But in Mrs May, they have a leader determined to achieve it — a challenge that will be made easier after Brexit.
By contrast, Mr Corbyn has made clear he believes that where migrants are concerned, the more we let in, the merrier — no matter what the consequences for jobs, wages, hospital beds, school places, infrastructure, social cohesion and our national identity.
FOUR: DEFENCE
WHAT more need be said than that the Labour leader is a lifelong supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, who has frequently made clear that he is no friend of Britain’s Armed Forces, while offering nothing but comfort to their enemies?
he may have said he will obey his party’s command to renew Trident at a cost of billions of pounds a year. Yet by telling the world that under no circumstances would he press the nuclear button, he has left no doubt that, under him, the deterrent would be meaningless. Thus, the man who loves terrorists around the world would leave his own country defenceless.
FIVE: BREXIT
RESEARCH has shown that four-fifths of Britons, even those who supported Remain, now believe that we should press ahead with withdrawal. That means giving Mrs May and her negotiators the strongest possible mandate to strike the best deal for Britain with an EU that will ruthlessly exploit any sign of weakness or division.
To her enormous credit, the Prime Minister has been unflinching in her resolve to carry out the will of the people, as expressed in last year’s referendum.
Not for her the insidious attempts by ‘we-know-best’ Remoaners to undermine the result — still less, the arrogant and insulting campaign by the pathetic Lib Dems to overturn it.
As for Mr Corbyn, even before talks begin in earnest, he has made clear he will pay any price our partners demand for us to retain open borders and membership of the single market and customs union (which would leave us subject to European courts and prevent us striking trade deals in the wider world).
in other words, he would sign a blank cheque to retain our EU membership in all but name.
SIX: THE COALITION
Not a day goes by when Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t hint that she is prepared to form some sort of alliance with Mr Corbyn. if you thought an Alex Salmond/Ed Miliband axis was terrifying, a Corbyn/ Sturgeon partnership should give us all nightmares.
Yet if the pollsters agree on one thing, it is that Labour has no hope of forming a government without her support.
This means that the SNP, dedicated to remaining in the EU and breaking up the kingdom, would inevitably call the shots, with the Scottish Nationalist tail wagging the UK dog. Vote Labour, get Sturgeon.
Yes, we know the polls are not propitious for the Conservatives. But this paper has always believed in the common sense, decency and patriotism of British voters who have shown so often in the past that they put the interests of the country and the aspirations for our children and grandchildren first.
if these are their guiding principles, we believe this crucial vote can result only in a comfortable victory for Theresa May and the Conservatives.
in the name of everything the great majority of us hold dear, and with so much at stake, we urge our readers to save Britain from the terrorists’ friends — and give Mrs May the mandate she needs to negotiate successfully with Europe.