Better times
FEW will have lamented the passing of 2023 last night.
Any tears will have been for the appalling events that overshadowed it.
Happy New Year from The Sun
But we have higher hopes for 2024.
In fairness last year had its moments: The coronation. Our fabulous golds at the World Athletics Championships, the Lionesses reaching the World Cup final and our cricketers’ Ashes heroics.
But it will be remembered chiefly for Hamas’s atrocities in Israel on October 7 — and the hard-left imbeciles who celebrated the rapist terrorists and flaunted their Jew-hatred on our streets.
It was horrific enough even to upstage the catastrophe grinding on in Ukraine.
Meanwhile our economic woes went on too, worsened by politically motivated strikes.
But we have mainly weathered the storm — and the green shoots we ARE now seeing should bloom in 2024.
Inflation has been halved.
Interest rates must fall soon.
Unemployment remains low.
This year voters will either stick with Rishi Sunak’s Tories or gamble on Keir Starmer’s Labour.
We’re not sure what ideas Starmer has, if any, but the PM must rapidly produce a bold and far more concrete offer.
That means dramatic cuts to our crippling income tax burden . . . to help Sun readers, boost growth and create clear blue water between him and a Labour Party which will always support higher spending and taxes.
Timidity won’t win a fifth Tory term.
Mr Sunak must confront Whitehall and cut the bloated, work-from-home public sector and state spending generally.
But if our election looks intense, stand by for an incendiary Biden–Trump rematch in the US.
We pray our No1 ally doesn’t tear itself to shreds.
The upside to all that is a sumptuous feast of sporting distraction — the Euros, then the Olympics and Paralympics, to name just three.
The Sun wishes you all a happy New Year. We really think it will be one.
Rotten judges
THE IS fanatic we cannot deport is cast-iron proof of a system destroyed by liberal judges and human rights lawyers.
Originally a Sudanese illegal migrant, he was finally barred from Britain in 2018 only to win an appeal letting him stay forever and remain anonymous.
Our security services say he’s a risk.
Yet immigration judges ruled he might be in danger if sent home.
Even if true, how can that trump our citizens’ safety?
Indeed, aside from terrorists themselves, is there a bigger threat to us than judges who bend over backwards to help them?
Toxic taxi tax
TAXING minicab rides won’t just make the poorest poorer, it’s political poison.
A big majority of 2019 Tory voters oppose adding VAT to fares.
Be wise, Chancellor. Scrap it.
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