Theresa May’s Brexit speech must be bold enough to make the Remoaners’ campaign to reverse the referendum result irrelevant
She must negotiate for full control of our borders and our laws
A bold Brexit
THERESA May’s big Brexit speech on Tuesday must be bold, decisive and finally bury the baseless idea that she “has no plan”.
Nothing will silence the Remoaners.
But we hope the strategy is so clear, upbeat and ambitious it renders their campaign to dilute or even reverse the referendum result as irrelevant as it is obnoxious.
Her negotiating demands must contain two red lines: full control of our borders and full control of our laws.
As EU rules stand, that means leaving the single market — even if we do then negotiate free access to it.
Leavers were well aware this was what they were voting for. It is the essence of Brexit, as the Remain camp themselves repeatedly pointed out.
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Quitting the customs union also looks probable to take advantage, as we must, of all the nations queuing up to strike independent free trade deals with us.
Donald Trump’s team are working on theirs. New Zealand’s PM was in London yesterday discussing his.
Let’s waste no time, either. We must not begin negotiating only after we leave in 2019.
Britain has so far defied the economists’ gloom. Mrs May must capitalise on that optimism — and end any idea that Brexit can somehow be fudged.
Let’s fix NHS
THE Prime Minister is right to target GPs whose opening hours are failing patients and propelling them into casualty. But they are only part of the NHS crisis.
Yes, they must take more responsibility. But so must patients. So must left-wing MPs who know how complex and historic the problems are but prefer hurling abuse at the Government to thinking.
The NHS has been well funded during austerity next to other departments. The demands on it are simply too great.
The population is getting older, sicker and fatter and rising by 330,000 a year.
Too many live unhealthily for years and expect a five-star service to pick up the pieces. They bother GPs with trivialities or get drunk and pile into A&E.
But justifiable use of the NHS has increased hugely too. And its structure has to change just as radically, almost certainly with private involvement.
Yet the public, egged on by the Left, seems horrified by anything more imaginative than tipping in billions more.
It is time for Britain to grow up about the health service we ALL value — and seriously debate how to secure its future.
Bye the Left
WHO can blame Tristram Hunt for abandoning Jeremy Corbyn’s sinking ship?
Who wants a decade in impotent opposition? Life’s too short. Hunt was touted as a future Labour leader once. He will make a far better museum boss.
And when Corbyn is finally toppled, Hunt can have him stuffed, mounted and displayed with the other relics.