Could Farage be Britain’s Trump?
CONSERVATIVE voters like me have been urged to avoid protest votes in the European parliamentary elections for fear that a Jeremy Corbyn Marxist-led government would result (Mail). While I would predict the consequences of such an outcome would be the political equivalent of a nuclear winter, it has to be said that Theresa May’s government has failed spectacularly. The Ramsgate ferry fiasco illustrates that, notwithstanding lamentable project management expertise, the Government has chosen to ignore Murphy’s Law, the Law of Sod, the law of unintended consequences and ongoing assessment results of the what-if’s over the past three years. This has resulted in a national identity crisis, a divided country, no return on the Brexit financial investment and a £39 billion invoice, not including preparation costs and an extension of Article 50, which may be permanent. Assuming I reward the Conservatives for this travesty with my continuing support, how is all this going to change quickly enough to ensure the outcome is any better than a Corbyn-led government? The potential still remains for it to be significantly worse. For sensible Tories to ‘do the right thing’, they surely need an explanation.
GuY WATKINSON, Gloucester. TO ASSERT that a vote for Nigel Farage is effectively a vote for Corbyn is a flawed argument. The upcoming EU elections, for which Farage’s new Brexit Party leads the polls, will not count when the next General Election is fought. There is a presumption that Tory voters will desert the party at the next election while Labour voters will continue to support an anti-Semitic, Marxist rabble that have been equally responsible for blocking Brexit. That would suggest that Tory voters are decent, principled folk, while Labour voters couldn’t care less so long as the party that promises them something for nothing sweeps to power. I would suggest that if Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party wins the EU elections it will build a momentum that could lead to an unlikely General Election victory. Farage could be our Trump! Surely the majority of voters will not vote for incumbent MPs following the Brexit shambles and, therefore, will abstain or vote for a minority party. The Americans showed how sick and tired they were of the liberal, we-know-best consensus and so voted for Trump in order to give them a good kicking. It will soon be time for us to do the same to our liberal, EU-obsessed, metropolitan elite.
KEVIN COLEY, Leicester. I TRUST that the voters who support Brexit will boycott the EU elections. It seems ridiculous to seek to elect UKIP or Brexit Party MEPs who don’t believe in the institution they are joining and whose only raison d’etre is to disrupt EU proceedings. If there is a second referendum, they may well be there for years, taking the money while subverting democratic processes. The leaders of the Leave campaign have assured us we will remain on good terms with our neighbours after exiting the EU. But they seem only too happy to increase friction and animosity, which is not the best recipe for any future relationships.
HuGH LEGGE, Northampton.