What change from Labour?
LABOUR was elected on a promise to change Britain for the better.
But just this week, asylum claims have hit record levels with 51,000 illegal migrants arriving this year.
PALabour was elected on a promise to change Britain for the better but seems paralysed by indecision[/caption]
Labour inherited the Tories’ disastrous asylum hotel policy and has promised to end their use in four years’ time.
But organised protests spreading like wildfire suggest frustrated locals may not be prepared to wait that long.
More dangerous for Labour is the “Raising the Colours” movement with protesters hoisting Union Jacks and St George’s flags on the streets.
Not only does that explicitly tie pride in the country to growing opposition to the Government.
But folk painting St George crosses on potholes because it might be the only way to get the council to come and fix them also speaks volumes about both crumbling services and politicians’ abandonment of our unifying English culture.
Into this mix of rising public anger is the case of childminder Lucy Connolly — forced to spend a year in jail alongside killers and drug dealers for a tweet.
She is now a martyr to those opposing Britain’s creeping two-tier justice system.
Public anger is rising and an autumn of discontent beckons
Meanwhile, the UK is drowning in debt, inflation is up and growth barely above zero.
An autumn of discontent also beckons as greedy RMT tube drivers — on £70,000 a year for a 35-hour week — become the latest of Labour’s public sector union backers to threaten strikes.
In the face of these crises, Labour seems paralysed by indecision — summed up by the ditching of modest welfare reforms after a rebellion by left- wing backbenchers.
Increasingly, Government policy now seems driven only by finding new ways to tax families by coming after pensions, savings and even their homes.
This only adds to mounting voter despair.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting admits his party lacks a “coherent” message.
So we have a few suggestions for the Government:
Soaring public spending must be urgently slashed.
You cannot tax your way to growth, so stop whacking families and business.
Stop the boats by reining in activist judges who misinterpret European human rights law.
Abandon costly pet left-wing projects like scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
And end the rank unfairness that takes money from hard workers to fund an out-of-control welfare state.
We need change.
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