Britain is now in the last few days before the General Election and it’s an election that has a lot riding on it. Will the people choose Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party and some chance of leaving the European Union or will they vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s hard left Labour Party that wants to keep Britain in the EU? After 10:00pm when the polling stations close we will start to get some idea of which direction the country is going in.

The big divider in this election is Brexit. The big concerns are not the economy or public spending or government mismanagement like in 1979. It is not an an election where the choice is between a party mired in sleaze and the need for a percieved ‘fresh start’ as it was in 1997. Neither is it, as it was in 2010, an election where a government’s economic mismanagement, bad public image and the aftermath of an unpopular war had caused a change of government. The only recent election that I can compare it with, because of the core issue running through it, is the February 1974 election. The question put to the voters is similar ‘who governs Britain’ but this time its not a question about whether the Trade Unions or the Government govern Britain but instead whether Britons govern themselves or are governed by Germany via Brussels?

I do hope that Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, despite a number of personal misgivings about how ‘conservative’ they really are, get a better result that Sir Edward Heath did in February 1974. Back then when the question ‘who governs Britain’ was put to the people, the public told Heath, ‘not you matey’ and we ended up with a hung Parliament in which Heath could not get a majority in the House of Commons. With the current high level of plotting and scheming by the Remainer Establishment in the media, academia, politics and elsewhere, a hung Parliament would be a disaster that would be exploited by the Remainers. A hung Parliament of a small unworkable majority for the Tories would be eaten alive by the Parliamentary Remain group. In that scenario Brexit would be dead.

The only practical way out of this mess is for there to be a strong Tory government with a working majority that can cope with many of the ups and downs of politics such as by-election losses, abstentions from key votes and the in-party ‘awkward squad’. A bright point for the Tories is that many of the worst of the pro-EU obsessives have flounced out of the party. Sarah Woolaston has joined the Lib Dems and Anna Soubry is the leader of a failed party of independents. Also gone is Ken Clarke the EU’s most enthusiastic supporter of the EU in the House of Commons. He’s not standing again which means that a different type of Tory may replace him.

Politics is the art of what is practical and I’d rather have a practically minded Tory running the country and taking the next steps to get Britain out of the EU than the alternative, a Muslim terrorist hugging Marxist like Corbyn. The Tories are not perfect, their withdrawal agreement is not perfect and the politically correct remnants of the wet Tories who came in alongside David Cameron are still there, they are not as ‘conservative’ as they maybe should be. But the Tories, for all their faults, are at the very least not the utter social destroyers that Labour have become. I’ve never been scared for the safety and security of my loved ones by the potential outcome of a British election, after all Britons have never voted Fascist or Communist in any great numbers, but I’m shit scared of Corbyn. I’m scared of the Jew hating far Left that now runs the party, I’m scared that Labour will further empower an increasingly hostile and separatist Islamic community by turning a blind eye to the criminals in these communities and tolerating electoral fraud in areas controlled by Islam. I’m also scared that Labour will wreck the economy in their doomed search for a socialist utopia, something they’ve done before.

I’ll be voting Conservative this time around. I’m primarily voting because the local Tory former MP is at least helpful in his constituency work and comes over as a thoughtful individual. I’d much rather him and the Tories than the – last time out second place – Lib Dem candidate who is to my mind pretty disgusting both for her party affiliations which is trying to sell ‘Remain’ in a Brexit voting area and her attempts to put out a fake ‘local magazine’ in order to promote herself. For me the Tories are the least worst option. Yes, I’d like to vote for some form of Reform party, a party that could tackle the entrenched Left in various sectors such as education, the criminal justice system and in the Civil Service, but this is not the time nor the election to vote for such a party. This is the time to vote for whichever party has in your area the best chance of sticking to the result of the 2016 Referendum. Everything else is secondary. We must get away from the EU before we can have the luxury of voting for new Reform based parties. If we don’t get away from the EU then any future vote would be meaningless as no big decisions about the future of Britain could be taken as all rules would be set in Berlin and Brussels with no way for British electors to change anything about them.