Theresa May cannot let Tory Remainers destroy Brexit – it’s her duty to defeat the rebellion
Voting down the Government will destroy any hope of a meaningful Brexit
Brexit’s D-Day
TODAY is Brexit’s moment of truth. Theresa May must face down and defeat the Tory Remainer rebels central to the orchestrated plot to reverse the referendum.
And that IS these backbenchers’ game no matter what they pretend.
Voting down the Government will destroy any hope of a meaningful Brexit that delivers on the wishes of the 17.4million majority — and they know it.
Yet they voted overwhelmingly for the referendum David Cameron said was binding. They voted to put the Leave verdict into effect. They stood on an election manifesto committed to leaving the customs union and single market.
It would be beyond shameful if today they side with unelected Brexit-wrecking peers to prevent us from doing so.
It would inflict a probably fatal wound on the Prime Minister, the Government and our democracy itself.
Mrs May must not run from it, or compromise further. It is her duty to confront this rebellion and end it.
Forces farce
THE prosecution of Army veteran David Holden over a death 30 years ago is an outrage that turns the stomach.
It is grotesque that IRA killers got get-out-of-jail-free cards while Mr Holden, already cleared once, is hauled through the courts again.
He insists the 1989 shooting was an accident, unlike any IRA atrocities. Indeed his victim was hit by a ricochet.
When Tory MP Johnny Mercer says he is “ashamed I’m part of a party in Government that is failing to stop this process”, Downing Street should take notice.
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They are betraying our veterans with these endless unjustifiable witch-hunts.
It is time they put a stop to them by law.
Red Tories
“WE’LL hammer the rich to inject billions into the NHS”. It could be straight from the Magic Money Tree manifesto that lost Labour the last election.
Yet, incredibly, this is the latest brainwave from Philip Hammond. A Tory, last time we checked.
The Chancellor should recall with a shudder what happens when his party targets its traditional voters for higher taxes.
He might also remember that the top ten per cent of earners already pay 59 per cent of all income tax.
Don’t get us wrong. Those who can afford to pay the most tax should do.
And they already do, by far.
We object in principle to tax rises to fund this mammoth NHS splurge when so much money is wasted elsewhere.
Britain must not be a high-tax country. Job-creators, investors and corporations will go elsewhere.
And how will the Tories defeat Corbyn’s ruinous tax plans when they’re hiking them too?
It is electoral suicide.