CONSERVATIVES OR MARXISTS ?

With the general election campaigns drawing to a close today, the choice for voters is as clear as crystal.

The Conservatives propose enforcing the result of the 2016 referendum and taking the UK out of the European Union without more delay. They promise to invest in public services but without huge increases in taxation, in fact they suggest that they will aim to reduce taxes. They will introduce stronger controls over immigration and will take steps to tackle the increasing violence in our society. In short, they will be a Conservative government.

On the other side of the aisle, Labour are no longer socialists but Marxists. They propose a regime of vast tax increases and unbelievable borrowing in order to finance a state take over of a range of industries and services. They say they will do this while also taking steps to keep the UK inside the European Union's bureaucratic and highly restrictive straitjacket. The populace would find itself under almost Stalinist supervision and democracy would become a thing of the past.

As for the minor parties, the Liberal un-Democrats are not really that far from Labour in their ludicrous taxing, borrowing and spending policies and would also not even bother about the result of the 2016 referendum - they'd simply ignore it and carry on as if it had never happened. Such undemocratic action has never before been seen in modern Britain but it is the Liberal's policy. The Greens are another bunch of socialists who promise to spend billions of pounds that they don't have on everything from climate change to washing my socks, and the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists aren't much different, except they both want to leave the United Kingdom and amalgamate themselves with the European Union. The Scots' claims about keeping the Queen as head of state and the pound as their currency are pie in the sky nonsense, as are their claims about the brilliance of Scotland under their leadership. 

The Brexit Party's policies are really of little importance as all that matters is their galvanising effect on the Conservatives and the chance that they may help to attract votes away from labour in some key marginals where there was a strong vote for leaving the EU. 

So the choice is a Conservative government that will deliver Brexit and other policies in a fairly controlled way or a Marxist-Socialist coalition that would bankrupt the country and quite possibly connive in its break up. There really can be only one choice.