ALL politicians love a blame game.
Whatever the colour of the rosette on their lapel, every party leader likes to point the finger of responsibility at someone else when things go wrong.
Sir Keir Starmer is pinning Britain’s economic woes squarely on Brexit, ignoring other factors like rising prices, taxes, and crumbling public servicesCredit: Getty
So we shouldn’t be surprised when Sir decided this week to lay the blame for Britain’s current economic and defence problems elsewhere.
And we shouldn’t be surprised by his chosen culprit, either.
Because, despite all of the many factors that have contributed to Britain’s flat- lining economy, with rising prices and unemployment, a ballooning welfare bill, high taxes yet crumbling public services and weakened Armed Forces, the Prime Minister has identified one key cause for all our woes.
And that culprit is, of course — drum roll, please — .
Yes, apparently voting to leave the European Union back in 2016 is what’s got us into this mess, and therefore moving us back closer to the EU is what will make everything better.
It’s certainly an interesting take. Clearly, Sir Keir must have forgotten about the trifling matters of a global , the hundreds of billions borrowed to spend on lockdowns and the tens of billions more spent tackling price hikes after the Russian invasion of .
policies must have slipped his mind, too, despite these destroying our industrial base and leaving us dependent on and imports — and as the nation hardest hit by .
All that is also not to mention the billions in thrown like confetti at anyone who feels a bit anxious on a Monday morning and thus completely unable to get a job.
Oh, and the mass importing of millions of low-skilled workers and their families from abroad to keep wages low, which has stifled investment and productivity for decades.
Nope, none of that explains why we are in the catastrophic economic mess we’re in right now.
According to our PM, it’s all down to British firms having the onerous problem of doing some extra paperwork to sell stuff to .
I wonder if, when the Prime Minister spills his tea or stubs his toe, he blames that on Brexit as well.
According to Sir Keir, if only 17.4million of us hadn’t been fooled by what was written on the side of a big red bus in 2016, then the economy would be boomingCredit: Getty Images – Getty
The point is that, if only 17.4million of us hadn’t been fooled by what was written, then the economy would be booming, our energy would be plentiful and cheap, our defences would be secure and we’d all be enjoying a sunny and warm Easter bank holiday right now.
Of course, if leaving the EU has been the problem, the solution to all our problems is also obvious.
So at his No10 press conference this week, would boost our economy and make us more secure — although quite why he thinks allying ourselves more closely with the EU’s failing economy and lack of defence capability is going to help us is a mystery for the ages.
He announced plans for a UK-EU summit this summer as part of his not- so-secret bid to take us back under Brussels’ rule, one step at a time.
Why should anyone be surprised? After all, the PM tried every trick in the book to stop Brexit and now he will stop at nothing to take us back into the by the back door.
This is the man who, as Shadow Brexit Secretary, spent more than three years in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet plotting to thwart the result of the largest democratic vote in this nation’s history and stop Brexit from happening.
As an arch-Remoaner, Sir Keir battled to prevent a good Brexit deal and then ensured that the Labour manifesto in 2019 promised a second referendum to approve their own deal or remain in the EU.
Yet even after was elected PM to “get Brexit done”, Sir Keir and his band of barmy Brexit-haters didn’t give up the fight.
Clearly, Sir Keir must have forgotten about the trifling matters of a global pandemic and the hundreds of billions borrowed to spend on lockdownsCredit: Getty
Despite promising to respect Brexit in his 2024 manifesto, the moment he got into No10 that year, the Labour leader started work on reversing the Leave vote by hook or by crook.
, signed a food-and-farming deal that requires British producers to follow EU rules, as well as paying £600million to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus education exchange scheme, while freedom of movement for under-30s is now also on the cards.
Inch by inch, we are being slowly dragged back into the EU’s orbit — but this time with the worst of both worlds, because we will be rule-takers, not rule-makers.
And so, in a few years’ time, Sir Keir will tell us how, since we’re already so aligned with Europe anyway, it would be so much better if we were back at the table as fully-fledged EU members once again.
His plan is both treacherously sneaky and impressively bold. But what else would you expect from a man with such a cold-hearted disdain for democracy and so little faith in the British people?
As we approach the ten-year anniversary of that historic Brexit vote, most Brits thought the Brexit wars were long over.
But, if our Prime Minister gets his way, they have only just begun.
READ RIOT ACT TO FERAL TEENS
While Sir Sadiq spoke about how safe London is, hordes of teenagers were marauding on Clapham, South West London, for the second time in daysCredit: Alamy
IT would be funny were it not so serious. London Mayor Sir joined Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley at the Foreign Office for an online meeting with UK ambassadors around the world to tell them to challenge the “lies” that London is no longer a safe city.
While Sir Sadiq, right, spoke, hordes of teenagers were marauding in Clapham, South West London, for the second time in days. Up to 300 of them, , looting, smashing property and forcing shopkeepers to barricade their doors.
If that’s what the Mayor means by “safe”, I dread to think what a dangerous city would look like. The mob, organised on social media, was met with a lacklustre response from police, who arrested a mere handful of teens.
As Tory leader rightly says, no wonder youths think they can behave this way when we have a “total collapse of consequences”.
When you and I were that age, we feared the police, teachers AND parents.
But far too many teens today do not fear ANYONE in authority – as there is now NO ONE in authority, thanks to years of lax parenting, left-wing teaching and a culture of victimhood that excuses any bad behaviour by anyone who hasn’t had a picture-perfect childhood.
If Khan and Rowley want a safe capital, feral teens must know there will be REAL consequences and not just a slap on the wrist.
Feral teens marauding in ‘safe city’ LondonCredit: Instagram
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