Tuesday 3 October 2017

The Choice Is Clear

As well as having the gall to warn of extra borrowing under a Corbyn Government, when his own has borrowed more than all previous Labour Governments put together, Philip Hammond used the Conservative Party Conference to berate Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell for having departed from “the 35-year consensus”.

The choice at the next General Election is now clear. It is between those who do, and those who do not, believe that the only permissible opinions on economic and foreign policy are those of Tony Blair and David Cameron, of Emmanuel Macron and Mariano Rajoy, of George W. Bush and the Clintons.

Whether on economic policy, or on foreign policy, or both, if you dissent from that position in any way, or even if you simply do not believe that all other positions ought to be excluded from the debate, then you have no option except to vote Labour at the next General Election.

Anything else, including abstention, would be a conscious choice to close the debate, and this time to close it forever, leaving only “the 35-year consensus” of Philip Hammond.

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