Bitten by Nats
BORIS Johnson has far more to fear today from Nicola Sturgeon than Keir Starmer.
Labour seems doomed to a string of defeats outside London. But if most polls are right, only the size of Sturgeon’s victory in Scotland is in question.
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If most polls are right, only the size of Nicola Sturgeon’s victory in Scotland is in question[/caption]
Boris Johnson has far more to fear from Sturgeon than Keir Starmer[/caption]
Her SNP is a one-policy party whose 14 years in power have been dogged by sleaze, failure and broken promises.
It is kept aloft by the romance of independence, by anti-English grievance and by a cynical strategy of hoovering up credit for any successes while blaming Westminster’s Tories for every failure.
Support for independence, a road to ruin for Scotland, appears even lower now than when it was rejected in 2014.
Most Scots don’t want another referendum, for years if ever.
But a new majority may embolden the SNP to try to enforce it. Independence is their sole cause.
Sturgeon could subject Boris to years of legal, political and constitutional hell. Not to mention unleashing more chaos and bitter division in Scotland.
We hope the Scots vote for anyone else.
Power crazed
IMAGINE if our Government threatened to cut off some French territory in a tantrum.
Critics would say they were dangerous bigots, madmen, clowns.
French maritime minister Annick Girardin claimed Paris may stop Jersey’s electricity[/caption]
Yet here is French maritime minister Annick Girardin claiming Paris may stop Jersey’s electricity because her trawlers have to fill out more paperwork since Brexit.
This gangster-style belligerence, more worthy of the Kremlin, has forced us to send in the Royal Navy.
But it’s entirely in keeping with how the EU briefly decided to impose a toxic hard border in Ireland, in a childish rage over jabs,.
Our politicians may be a mixed bag. Across the Channel they’re pygmies.
Beer glut
WHEN Covid first struck, the main economic fear was mass unemployment.
But the Government’s rescue plan kept countless firms and jobs alive.
Pubs, hotels and restaurants cannot recruit fast enough to reopen on May 17[/caption]
And the real problem, it turns out, is that pubs, hotels and restaurants cannot recruit fast enough to reopen on May 17.
We’d rather see a glut of vacancies than four million on the dole. But those empty jobs are still a nightmare the hospitality trade must resolve in days.
Millions could be eligible. But recruitment agencies claim they don’t have the skills. So train them . . . quickly.
And if you need work, look no further than your local. Be ready to learn fast.
Nail dad’s killers
THE killing of kind-hearted dad James Gibbons by feral teenagers is appalling.
James Gibbons was killed while feeding and defending a homeless man[/caption]
Not least because he was stabbed feeding and defending a homeless man.
Our hearts go out to his young family.
Let there be no mercy for the vicious thugs responsible.
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