May the Force
The world’s two most powerful women both stood their ground over how soon we trigger Brexit
THERESA May’s bulldozing of Jeremy Corbyn will bring further dismay to moderate Labour MPs and supporters.
It won’t trouble Corbyn’s blindly devoted fans, who could interpret his trousers falling down in the Commons as a political victory. The rest watched their chances of ever tasting power again vanish over the horizon yesterday.
David Cameron routinely hammered Corbyn. Mrs May was more down-to-earth, more brutal and more damaging.
Hers were not slick Old Etonian putdowns. More a leopard-print boot direct to Corbyn’s most vulnerable parts.
The contrast between the Tories and Labour, in competence and vision, has never been wider. Can anyone seriously imagine Corbyn representing Britain?
Mrs May did just that later, telling Angela Merkel the free movement of people must end. The world’s two most powerful women both played hardball over how soon we trigger Brexit — and what can be discussed beforehand.
It must not be a long stalemate. That helps neither us nor the Germans.
A decent job
FOR all the flak they have taken, David Cameron and George Osborne deserve credit for the staggering new job figures.
Unemployment below five per cent for the first time since 2005 and a record number in work.
Only the next set of statistics will reveal what impact the Brexit verdict had, but even those signs are good.
The previously morose Bank of England says British firms are aiming to bring production back home thanks to the weaker Pound. There’s “no clear evidence of a sharp slowing in activity”.
Consumer confidence HAS dipped. That’ll happen if a “consensus of experts” claims the economy will self-combust.
Our hunch is that confidence will be back in short order.
Soldier tragedy
SOLDIERS’ training has to be gruelling or more lives will be lost in the war zone.
Even so, the death of Josh Hoole in the Brecon Beacons is both tragic and troubling, after three SAS candidates died there in 2013. If heat was again to blame we must know if supplies were adequate and if he was treated the moment he got into difficulty.
Tough exercises are one thing. We must be sure the Army is not pushing squaddies to the brink of death in the Welsh hills.
Roll the ’Dyce
CAN Sam Allardyce work miracles?
Turning water into wine might be easier than making England a decent national side and convincing them to stop fretting over decades of failure.
Best of luck. You’ll need some, Sam
