Play fair before it’s too late, PM
LABOUR’S successes have so far been few and far between.
But they have succeeded in one thing — uniting huge numbers of voters in a feeling that the Government is presiding over a country rank with unfairness and double standards.
Accusations of the UK becoming a two-tier society started after last summer’s riots.
This week has shown how that has now morphed into other areas of British life.
Chief among the furies of voters is the ongoing incompetent handling of illegal migration.
Far from delivering on a promise to smash the gangs and stop the boats, Labour has let in 50,000 illegal migrants in record time.
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Hard-working but hard-up families who despaired at the £5.7 million a day bill for asylum hotels, now watch in horror as young single men are moved into blocks of flats next door, rent-free.
Meanwhile, Labour-run Birmingham council lavishes money on celebrations of Pakistan Independence Day and allows the unfurling of thousands of Palestinian emblems across the city — while insisting English St George flags must be torn down.
From taxing small farmers, to driving pubs to closure, Government economic policy has also been woefully unfair.
Rachel Reeves’s National Insurance rise has cost tens of thousands of ordinary people their jobs and stamped out growth.
Yet Labour’s union paymasters are handed inflation-busting pay hikes.
Families face more massive tax rises in the Autumn — on their hard-earned savings, their pensions and their kids’ modest inheritances — to fill the Chancellor’s £50billion black hole.
The diminishing number of people who DO still have a job now must pay more than ever to fund EIGHT MILLION on Universal Credit — where half are under no obligation to look for employment at all.
There is no plan for tackling this ruinous waste of money and human potential since ministers caved in to their Left-wing backbenchers over welfare reform.
This all adds up to a highly damaging impression that Labour is not treating voters equally.
We are told Number Ten now recognises just how important “fairness” is to the electorate. Good.
Now Sir Keir Starmer must show that he really is on the side of the strivers over the skivers.
Does our former human rights lawyer Prime Minister have the courage to rip up or radically reform the ECHR, the only way to stop the boats?
Will he put money back in families’ pockets, or keep relentlessly taxing them to fund projects beloved by the hard-Left of his party?
Labour has already squandered public goodwill from its landslide victory.
It can ill afford to allow voter resentment to fester further.
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