Theresa May’s immigration red line is a great start, but she must prevent drift over the rest of our Brexit terms
Border controls will betray the clearest mandate in our history
No Brexit fear
THERESA May’s immigration red line is a great start, but she must prevent drift and timidity over the rest of our Brexit terms.
The PM could not really duck establishing full border controls, the clearest demand of the referendum majority.
What concerns us now is the Government being too cowed over the other components of our unique deal.
Defeatist Remainers still seem convinced of Britain’s weakness outside the EU.
But we are an economic powerhouse in a position of strength.
And the feebleness and paralysis of the EU is even more obvious now than on June 23.
Britain will find it much easier negotiating trade deals alone.
We must confidently grasp those golden opportunities.
Our future does NOT lie within the EU.
We should tell Brussels as soon as we can that we want to continue free trade, while on the outside and in charge of our own laws . . . and thus challenge them to be reckless enough to throw up tariffs.
A Brexit much like the status quo, but with border controls, will betray the clearest mandate in our history.
Docs’ disgrace
NEVER again must politically motivated junior doctors hold Britain to ransom.
The medics aiming to cripple our publicly funded health system with week-long strikes are treating patients as pawns in a callous game to bloody Tory noses and extract more Saturday pay.
It is an outrage they rejected the terms their union backed after all Jeremy Hunt’s concessions.
And insane the BMA supports strikes over a deal it negotiated.
Doctors may consider it an affront to have to work long, unsocial hours early in their career.
But that’s the norm in many jobs which, unlike theirs, do not guarantee spectacular salaries later.
The Government must rapidly now bracket them with the police and armed forces — and outlaw their strikes.
Beat a retreat
REMEMBER “bobbies on the beat”?
This was an ancient phenomenon where police patrolled communities to prevent crime and build relationships.
We’re on our own now.
Cops may not even pop round if you’re burgled.
Yet plenty ARE available to sit in vans and nick you for straying over the speed limit.
What happened to their priorities?
Race killers
FOR all its positives, the Brexit vote has emboldened a few racist morons who misunderstood Vote Leave’s case for control.
It was not about victimising immigrants, the vast majority ambitious and hard-working . . . Poles especially.
Tory MP Rob Halfon says the killers of a Polish man “come from the sewers”.
We couldn’t agree more.
