Voters distrust panicked Cameron over EU referendum
72% of voters polled don't believe what the PM is telling them
IS it any wonder that David Cameron is now the least trusted major politician over Brexit?
His desperation to salvage the Remain campaign seems to know no limits and no shame.
Seventy-two per cent of voters don’t believe what the Prime Minister tells them.
A remarkable figure for a man voted back into Downing Street only a year ago . . . but not surprising.
Week in, week out he trashes the policies of Labour, the Lib Dems or the Greens to suit his Government.
Suddenly, on this one issue, he “proudly” urges us to trust their judgement and his.
In yesterday’s surreal photo-op, our PM even stood unflinching as Harriet Harman — that examplar of leftie wrongness — insisted that only Brussels could save workers’ rights from the awful, wicked Tories.
Does Mr Cameron have any pride?
And who did these politicians imagine they were convincing as they suspended their mutual contempt to pose like four dodgy dealers in a used Mini lot?
It was less Italian Job and more put-up job.
Most Tories see Mr Cameron alongside Natalie “brain fade” Bennett, the clueless Green dreamer, and start to think he has lost the plot like she has.
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Greens see Ms Bennett alongside a Tory PM and feel sick.
How does the Prime Minister think these stunts, or the unrestrained abuse he is flinging at senior Tory colleagues on the Leave side, can be forgotten if he wins on June 23?
It is classic Cameron. Say whatever . . . fix it later.
And the more panicky he becomes at polls giving Leave the lead, the more aggressive he gets.
He’s already told us jobs will be lost and house prices will rise.
Now a Leave vote will detonate “a bomb” under the economy — and Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have no plan for it.
Well, by definition, Britain would be in uncharted waters outside the EU.
But what is Mr Cameron’s economic plan if we stay and Britain’s population hits 70million or more?
That is certain if we continue to cede control over all EU immigration.
And that’s before Turkey eventually joins, as the PM has previously insisted he wants.
What is the plan for the new schools, hospitals, homes and roads we will need?
Where will they be built?
Where is the money for them?
What is the plan to improve the lot of the low-paid whose wages have for years been depressed by migrants willing to undercut them?
The claim that the economic case is “settled” for Remain, simply because its economists shout loudest, is nonsense.
More and more people are realising a Remain vote is NOT the safety-first option.