Governments are very powerful in Britain. The power of
Parliament on the other hand is limited. It can pass or fail to pass laws and
it can vote a Government down. Governments have been able to declare war and
make peace without asking the opinion of Parliament. What this means is that a
Government fully intent on leaving the EU with or without a deal has many
advantages. It will be the Government talking to the EU. Parliament cannot
carry out negotiations with anyone because we are not ruled by Parliament, we
are ruled by the Crown that appoints a Government. This means that if
Parliament wants to stop a determined Government from taking the UK out of the
EU it will probably have to vote down that Government. It is this that brings
us to the possibility of a General Election.
Parliament is in recess now and comes back on 3rd
September. If a General Election is called, Parliament is dissolved for 25
days. What this means is that there is a relatively short window of opportunity
between early September and early October when Parliament can bring down the
Government in order to stop Brexit by means of a no-confidence vote. A few Tory
Remainers have that power. They would, of course, be kicked out of the
Conservative Party if they brought down a Conservative Government, but for some
of them Remaining in the EU is more important than anything else, so they may
well do so.
It is impossible to predict anything in British
politics at the moment, but a General Election will still primarily be a fight
between Labour and the Conservatives. The SNP will still win a lot of seats in
Scotland and a lot of Remainers will vote for the Lib Dems. The Brexit Party
may repeat some of its success at the European Elections, but would this be
helpful for a clean Brexit or a hindrance?
The Conservative Party would stand on a “no deal”
manifesto promising to leave the EU come what may. If that Government had a
working majority it could force through Brexit, but it couldn’t if it depended
on the votes of Remainers or a Remainer party. Ten or twenty Brexit Party MPs
might help, of course, but what if splitting the Brexiteer vote leads to the
Conservatives not gaining a majority at all?
However well other parties do, it is still the case
that the next Government will almost certainly either be Labour or
Conservative. Such a Government may depend on the votes of others in coalition,
but it is virtually impossible for these others to themselves form a
Government. For this reason, it is crucial to focus on Labour.
Here are the reasons to vote against Labour:
1. Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour is no longer a moderate social democratic
party. Nor is it working in the Old Labour tradition. Old Labour may have been
misguided, but at least it was patriotic. Corbyn’s Hard Left Labour is
something never experienced in Britain before. Corbyn has a record of siding
with Britain’s enemies including the IRA and Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
He would do his best to radically change the UK economy so that it as closely
as possible matched his Marxist thinking. If you want a communist Prime
Minister, now is your best chance of getting one.
2. Anti-Semitism
Labour’s anti-Semitism is not accidental. It is a
feature of Hard-Left thinking that sides with those terrorist groups that would
like to destroy Israel. It is anti-Semitic because it judges Israel by a
standard that it applies to no other country. If a fascist became leader of the
Conservative Party, I would expect every decent Conservative MP to resign. So
called moderate Labour MPs are guilty by association. They all campaigned for
an anti-Semite to be Prime Minister in 2017. They would all campaign for him to
be Prime Minister in 2019. People who campaign for anti-Semites are themselves
anti-Semitic.
3. Scottish independence.
A Conservative Government will not allow a second
independence referendum for at least a generation. It is nearly impossible
given the destruction of the Labour Party in Scotland for Labour to win an
overall majority without the support of the SNP. The condition for SNP support
will obviously be that Corbyn allows the SNP to have indyref2. Whatever Labour
says, it would have no choice to make this deal with the SNP. It would be
either that or not being in power at all. Pro UK people who vote for Labour in
Scotland are therefore in effect voting for the SNP.
4. Remain.
The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs are Remain
supporters. This would still be the case if Labour were to form a Government
not least because it would in all probability have to form such a Government
with the Lib Dems and the SNP. Labour policy on Brexit has been confused and opportunistic.
In the past they have wanted an even softer Brexit than Theresa May’s deal. Now
they appear to want a second referendum on Brexit in which Labour would
campaign for Remain. Large numbers of Labour constituencies however voted to
Leave. It makes no sense for any of these Leave voters to vote for Labour. Obviously
too, any party that supports a second Brexit referendum because they didn’t
like the result of the first, could hardly deny SNP demands for a second referendum
on independence. So once more a vote for Labour is a vote for indyref2.
5. No deal.
Some people think that a “no deal” Brexit would be an
economic disaster. But what would a Jeremy Corbyn Government do to the UK
economy? I can think of no example of Marxist economics leading a country to
becoming more prosperous. China is communist in name only. A Conservative
chancellor could mitigate any difficulty of leaving the EU without a deal by
means of tax cuts, lowering of tariffs with non-EU countries and a bonfire of
EU red tape. A Corbyn Government would instead raise taxes as much as it
possibly could. Would add still further layers of bureaucracy to British business.
It would nationalise as much industry as it could and it would follow the
policies of the Corbyn heroes that led countries like Venezuela into chaos and
poverty. Which do you fear more a “no deal” Brexit or a Corbyn led Labour
Government?
6. Moderate Labour
The Hard Left may control the Labour Party, but who
put them there? The answer, of course, is so called moderate Labour. Despite
Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair attempting to turn Labour into a moderate social
democratic party, they allowed the Hard Left to remain. The Conservative Party
would not tolerate fascists as MPs. It would not allow them to be elected year
after year, but moderate Labour allowed racist Marxists and communists to be
elected. Communism killed far more people in the twentieth century than fascism
did, yet somehow communists are still acceptable to Labour. It was only because
moderate MPs thought the Hard Left deserved a chance in the leadership contest following
Ed Miliband’s resignation that Jeremy Corbyn was nominated in the first place.
Labour isn’t a moderate party led by an extremist. It is a party that
sympathises with Hard-Left socialism. Moderate Labour MPs may be willing to
temper their socialist ideals out of pragmatism, but they would all prefer that
it wasn’t necessary to moderate them. They are therefore not moderate.
7. Tom Watson.
The leader of moderate Labour is Tom Watson. Does
anyone believe that Tom Watson would have championed “Nick” if Nick had uncovered
child abuse and murder involving senior Labour figures from 1970s? This illustrates
the fundamental problem with moderate Labour. Even moderates hate Conservatives
(“lower than vermin”) in a way that is quite irrational and is in no way reciprocated.
Conservatives think socialism is mistaken, but there is rarely if ever hatred
of the Left. Tom Watson made a catastrophic error in judgement when he
supported Nick. It ruined the lives and reputation of innocent people. It
helped the SNP depict Westminster as a cess pool. Tom Watson has not even properly apologised
for his actions. Given the chance to attack the reputation of Tories, he would
no doubt do so again. Do you really want such a man even as an MP let alone one
of the leaders of the Labour Party?
8. Defence.
We don’t know what threats Britain will face either
from other countries or from terrorist organisations, but we do know that in
order to defend ourselves we need our armed forces, our intelligence services
and our relationship with the United States. If there were a terrorist attack
in the UK, would Jeremy Corbyn support the terrorists? After all, in the past he
has sympathised with the aims of the IRA and Islamic jihadists. He has refused
to condemn Russian poisoners and has worked for Iranian TV. If Britain faced a
crisis in the years ahead would you really want Jeremy Corbyn in charge?
9. Immigration.
The last time we had a Labour Government it opened the
door to mass migration so as to “"rub the Right's nose in diversity”. This
remember was a moderate Labour Party. The nature of Britain was changed
forever. Pressure on housing and public services was increased. The Hard Left
is even more in favour of mass immigration than New Labour was. Is there anyone
from anywhere who Jeremy Corbyn would forbid from coming to Britain except
perhaps Donald Trump? What damage would a few years of Labour do to Britain? They’d
rub everyone’s nose in it, not just the Right.
10. Labour makes you poorer
Labour’s solution to any and every problem is to spend
more public money on it. It is for this reason that each and every past Labour Government
has either managed Britain’s decline or led us into economic crisis. Old Labour
gave us 1979 and the Winter of Discontent. New Labour gave us 2008 and the
worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Labour promises to help the poorest in
society, but because socialism doesn’t work. It inevitably makes them poorer instead. If even
moderate New Labour wrecked the UK economy, what would Hard Left Jeremy Corbyn’s
Labour do to our prosperity?
There is an alternative. Boris Johnson’s Conservatives
offer us a UK that is fully sovereign and completely outside the EU. This will
give us the chance to develop the low tax, pro-business, low tariff economy that
is necessary to compete in the modern world. Brexit gives us the greatest
opportunity in decades to become more efficient and richer. Economics is really
very simple. Decrease the size of the state, lower public spending and tax and
offer free trade to anyone who will reciprocate. This will make not only the poor richer, it will
make everyone else richer too. Brexit is about hope. Don’t let Labour wreck it.
