This Friday 13th election nightmare could come true… so make your vote count today and stop Jeremy Corbyn
I KEEP having this nightmare. The same one, over and over.
I dream I’ve just woken up and I look at the clock. It says “Friday 13th”. Then I hear a horrible cackling — and, OMG, it’s Diane Abbott standing by my bed, her face split open with mirth.
“We’re in charge now!” she shrieks: “Ha ha ha ha ha.” And then the rest of the ghouls appear.
Magic Grandpa Jeremy Corbyn, smirking through his beard, wearing his Lenin hat. Jo Swinson of the Lib Dems like a Girl Guide Leader from Hades. And then — grinning like Janette Krankie on acid — Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP.
I try to hide under the covers but Diane pulls them back. “We’re in charge now,” she repeats. “And first we’re going to wreck Brexit. And then we’re going to wreck the country. Ha ha ha ha.”
Friday, December 13 is the day we find out who will be ruling us for the next five years. And my nightmare could quite possibly come true.
I’ve been saying for ages that the idiotic Corbyn could win this election — without actually winning any more seats.
It is an incredibly precarious position for Boris Johnson and the Conservatives — and thus for Brexit.
The polls seem to be tightening. The Conservatives haven’t run a terribly good campaign, it’s true.
All it needs is another drop in the Tory lead of one per cent and we would be heading for a hung Parliament.
That almost certainly means a government led by Corbyn, with support from the Lib Dems and the SNP. It would definitely mean an end for Brexit.
The democratic decision we took three years ago would be forgotten. At best there would be ANOTHER referendum.
Almost certainly rigged by Labour and the Lib Dems to ensure that, this time, the right side won, ie, their side.
They have no respect whatsoever for that democratic mandate. They are very clear about that. But there will be even worse to come.
Labour will usher in a ruinous economic programme which the country cannot possibly afford.
Our entrepreneurs will flee the country. We’ll be back in huge debt once again. Spending on stuff we cannot afford.
Labour plans to spend TWENTY EIGHT times as much money as the Conservatives
TERRORIST SUPPORT
Worst of all, we will be led by a halfwit who supports every enemy known to this country.
You name a terrorist cell or a vile, authoritarian country and mad old Jezza will at some point have offered it support.
From the IRA to the genocidal Islamists Hamas, from Cuba to Iran.
The brilliant website Guido Fawkes has detailed all the times Corbyn has stuck up for terrorists or horrible totalitarian governments. Gawd help us, the list is almost endless.
This is a bloke who has said he wishes Nato didn’t exist. That’s the military alliance which has kept peace for 70 years!
But don’t take my word for it. Just this week yet another Labour MP was caught moaning about how truly bloody awful Corbyn was.
Jonathan Ashworth said voters were turned off by the man and that the prospects for Labour were “dire”.
He added: “I’m helping colleagues, banging on about the NHS for them, but it’s awful for them, and it’s the combination of Corbyn and Brexit . . . outside of the city seats . . . it’s abysmal out there . . . they can’t stand Corbyn and they think Labour’s blocked Brexit.”
CAN'T STAND CORBYN
That’s not “Tory lies”, as the lefties always say when someone takes a pop at the old scrote.
That’s a member of his own front-bench team. But then a good two thirds of Labour MPs can’t stand Corbyn and think he would be awful for this country.
As Boris Johnson said, Ashworth was only saying what hundreds of Labour candidates and millions of voters were thinking.
You wonder why some of those candidates don’t have the courage of their convictions and stand down.
In fact, plenty have already done so. Ivan Lewis, for example, who has urged everybody to vote Conservative.
Then there was John Woodcock and Ian Austin. Both former Labour MPs, moderates. They even made placards telling people to vote Tory.
More MPs left Labour long ago — such as Chuka Umunna, who is now standing as a Liberal Democrat, and Brexiteer Kate Hoey can’t bring herself to support the party she served for 30 years.
The man and his retinue of Trots — John McDonnell, Rebecca Long-Bailey (or Wrong Daily as she is known), the ghastly Diane Abbott — are a laughing stock. Except I don’t find very much to laugh about, to tell you the truth.
DIVISIVE IDENTITY POLITICS
And along with Labour and the Lib Dems will come more stupid, socially divisive identity politics. The whole country divided up into competing victimhoods.
Gay, transgender, black, Asian. As if these were the things which define us as human beings.
But then that’s the infantile and damaging way the Left sees the world.
Given all this, you might think it incredible that Corbyn could ever get the keys to No10 Downing Street. So many people despise the bloke.
And that’s before we factor in his repellent anti-Semitism (something utterly rife on the left of the Labour Party).
And you might look at the polls and think — well, the Tories still have a decent lead. Nothing much to worry about.
It won’t be Friday 13th or Nightmare On Abbott Street. It might well be Groundhog Day, but that’s preferable.
But this is the big problem for BoJo and his Conservative team. Complacency. The suspicion on the part of the electorate that Corbyn could never actually win. When he could win all too easily — and don’t forget, the opinion polls are very often wrong.
The other problem for the Tories is, of course, the Brexit Party. They are still fielding candidates in seats up and down the country — seats which the Tories need to win in order to form a government.
Some senior figures in the Brexit Party have already said they would be far better off backing the Tories in order to get Brexit done.
But Brexit Party boss Nigel Farage will not listen to them.
So we have the terrible situation where people might vote for the Brexit Party in order to make sure we leave the European Union — but in doing so actually STOP Brexit from occurring.
Because if the Brexit Party takes lots of votes from the Tories, that lets in Labour and the Lib Dems through the back door. And the result? No Brexit.
It’s in those seats in the North and Midlands where the Conservatives are most vulnerable to a high Brexit Party vote.
This is a crucial election. Not just for Brexit, but for Britain’s future.
VOTE TORY FOR BREXIT
That means a vote for the Conservatives, no matter how much that sticks in the craw.
I’ve mentioned before that the only time I voted Tory I felt pretty glum afterwards.
But this time there really is no alternative except in a tiny handful of seats where the Tories cannot possibly win.
Once this election is out of the way, we need a new party to provide opposition to the Tories.
A party that will replace Labour. For me, that’s the Social Democrats. But we’re not at that stage yet.
For now it’s a case of walking to the polling booth, holding your nose and voting Blue.
You decide our government. You may have your doubts about our democracy — I don’t blame you! You may feel uneasy voting Tory — don’t blame you for that, either.
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But you hold the destiny of our country in your hands.
Indeed, when you put that cross in a box, you ARE the government. The person who decides what is best for our country.
So make your vote count, please — and banish those nightmares for ever.
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