IT HAS TO BE A VOTE FOR BORIS.

During the election campaigns, it's often been suggested that the Conservatives have been in power for 9 years and yet have failed to accomplish things which they now say are priorities. Of course, this is misleading.

For 5 of those 9 years they were in coalition with the Liberal un-Democrats and had their hands tied on many issues. In 2015 they did gain a majority but promptly through it away in 2017, by when they'd also become horribly bogged down in Brexit and had an intransigent parliament doing all that it could to frustrate their every move. In reality, the Conservatives have only really been 'in power' from 7th May 2015 until 8th June 2017, and even then only with a small majority of 12. The rest of the time they've effectively been hogtied, either by coalition partners or parliamentary shenanigans.

Electing a Conservative government under Boris Johnson, with a decent parliamentary majority and without the pompous and outrageously intrusive figure of John Bercow in the Speaker's chair, will see a very different situation. Johnson is a Conservative who will implement the result of the 2016 referendum, thus honouring the democratic role of parliament, unlike his predecessor, while the leaders of the other main parties all continue to be opposed to Brexit in any form whatsoever. Johnson will also bring in tighter controls on immigration which are long overdue and will seek to agree trade deals all around the world, unencumbered by the elephantine processes of the European Union. Under a Johnson led government, our economy will prosper and expand, we will be a richer nation and the investment in both public and private services and industries that are needed will be forthcoming without the need for huge tax rises and increased borrowing.

Johnson may also review major projects such as the horribly costly 'HS2', a scheme which may well be nothing but an enormous white elephant, as well as the proposals for a third runway at Heathrow airport, another massive project which has aroused strong feelings on both sides of the argument. Johnson seems to me to be a man of much greater vision than he is usually given credit for and his approach to other serious issues, such as the state of the NHS and climate change, may well produce surprises. He will take steps to tackle the increasing criminality on our streets, fuelled as it is by drug trafficking, terrorism, cultural issues and a liberal-left approach to punishment and the criminal justice system. With luck, he may even get around to freeing up police time by removing some of the ludicrously subjective and largely unenforceable offences that they are now required to investigate.

Whatever Johnson does as Prime Minister after 12th December 2019, it will be far preferable to what Jeremy Corbyn's Marxists would implement. Don't fall for the bribery of Labour, accept that the best option this time around is a Boris Johnson led Conservative government with a decent majority and vote to bring it about.