When I was young and optimistically thoughtful, I had the idea that we would improve on democracy by allowing into power only people who could clearly demonstrate that they did not seek it. I think that Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour party is probably the nearest we are going to get to that ideal in my lifetime; unless (dare I think it?) he wins the next election!
Steve Lupton
Manchester
• May I politely remind the stony-faced Labour MPs who are aghast at the triumph of the “unelectable” Corbyn that had they been “electable” last May, they wouldn’t have been looking for a new leader.
Judith Knight
London
• I am surprised that people with a proven inability to predict the votes of their own party members in a matter of weeks have the nerve to pretend to know how the general public will vote in five years. If the Tories really believed Corbyn was unelectable as PM, they would not have launched the vicious attacks we witnessed as soon as he was declared leader.
Herbert Munk
Coventry
• Perhaps dissatisfied Labour party apparatchiks should heed Bertolt Brecht’s advice after the Stalinist DDR government suppressed the 1953 Berlin uprising: dissolve the membership and elect another one.
David Spilsbury
Birmingham
• One view of the future: we are to leave Nato, abandon our nuclear deterrent, cultivate our allotments and become a new potato republic on the northern fringe of Europe. Unless, of course, the white heat of the socialist revolution makes it warm enough to grow bananas…
Harmer Parr
Norwich
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