Theresa May must limit what she is willing to spend on free-trade – but the EU will come crawling as they need us
Price of a deal
THE EU will not give us a free trade deal without a big chunk of our cash.
Those of us who believe a good deal is better than none are realistic about that.
So if the Government calculates that the long-term benefits are worth substantially more than the £18billion we have so far put up, so be it. Offer more.
Not one penny of it should be transferred until the deal is signed, sealed and delivered. And it cannot be beyond price. There must be a limit to what Theresa May will spend.
If she offers £20billion more and Brussels still won’t play ball, let’s walk away.
Tycoon James Dyson has dealt with the EU for years. He reckons they’ll come round, fearing for their own economies.
We’ll take his experience over the doom-laden Tory europhiles who cannot even bring themselves to set the Brexit date in law.
They have no actual plan . . . they simply cannot bear to hammer the last nail in Remain’s coffin.
Britain, meanwhile, is doing well.
Unemployment is at its lowest since 1975, and falling. Productivity is at its highest in six years. Brits are spending fearlessly.
EU citizens aren’t deterred either. Record numbers are working here.
“Despite Brexit”, and all that.
Lout of Africa
THE end cannot come soon enough for the monstrous Robert Mugabe. But that won’t guarantee better times for Zimbabwe.
The murdering Marxist dictator has single-handedly reduced one of Africa’s most fertile countries to dire poverty.
Inflation hit 80billion per cent. Up to 95 per cent of citizens are unemployed.
Mugabe’s eviction and murder of white farmers almost starved his people.
He is behind tens of thousands of killings. He has destroyed human rights, rigged elections and corrupted the courts, police and army to keep power.
All so he and his appalling family can live lives of cartoonish extravagance.
Another triumph for socialism, like bankrupt Venezuela. But Mugabe’s likely successor is a thuggish henchman dubbed The Crocodile.
Democracy, and the long road back to prosperity, seem depressingly distant.
Not Impressed
WHEN will the Government pull the plug on bogus media “regulator” Impress?
Its supposedly impartial board members are militant tabloid-haters. Now two have also spread lunatic conspiracy theories about the alleged Tory bias of BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
These dangerous fictions, also fostered by the Canary website — a pro-Corbyn lie factory — forced Ms Kuenssberg to take a minder to the Labour Party conference.
Absurdly, Impress is currently meant to be ruling on a complaint against the Canary over a false story about her.
Impress is a sick joke. It must be stripped of its Royal Charter and left to implode.
