Don’t let Labour and SNP wreck Britain

THIS was the day Nicola Sturgeon let the cat out of the bag. after weeks of hinting and batting her eyelids, the SNP leader finally admitted that her party would prop up a Corbyn-led government on an ‘issue-by-issue basis’.

In other words: Vote SNP and Jeremy Corbyn will be calling the shots at Westminster by this Friday.

yet Miss Sturgeon’s language is designed to disguise what’s really going on,

this is not, apparently, a nascent SNP/ Labour coalition. It’s ‘a progressive alternative to a Conservative government’.

Of course, it’s nothing of the sort. It’s a burgeoning coalition of chaos that would set this country back decades.

Nobody should be surprised that with hypocritical opportunism, Miss Sturgeon is cosying up to Mr Corbyn. For where economic illiteracy and political dogma are concerned, they are two peas in a pod.

Labour are agin Brexit and lukewarm on the union. Of course, the SNP is viscerally opposed to Brexit and remains determined to break up the united Kingdom. that is despite a UK-wide vote to leave the Eu and despite Scots decisively rejecting the tawdry false prospectus for independence less than three years ago.

Moreover, the SNP has an appalling record of squandering taxpayers’ money while letting Scotland’s public services decay – most notably education, once second to none in the UK.

and both believe in a magic money tree, whose fruits will fund lavish promises that no government could keep.

this paper has news for them. Money to fund public services and handouts doesn’t grow on trees. It grows by the hard work of millions of taxpayers and the government’s efforts to create a climate in which businesses can flourish.

In this, the tories have been astonishingly successful. Some 2.5million new jobs have come into being across the UK on their watch, with consumer confidence at an alltime high, growth among the strongest in the developed world, inflation at an historic low and investment flooding in.

Only yesterday, defying dire predictions, the Stock Market touched an all-time peak, with the value of British companies up 25 per cent since the referendum – a £400billion rise.

you don’t need a degree in economics to realise how fast all these successes would disappear – along with jobs and the tax revenues on which public services depend – if Mr Corbyn and Miss Sturgeon got their hands on the levers of the economy.

this is what is at stake on thursday. Britain is doing remarkably well, with the promise of a bright future after Brexit if Mrs May gets the mandate she needs. For God’s sake, don’t let’s wreck it.