YP Letters: Labour should unite behind Corbyn's policies

From: Dr Glyn Powell, Bakersfield Drive, Kellington.
Should Labour MPs be supporting leader Jeremy Corbyn rather than trying to oust him?Should Labour MPs be supporting leader Jeremy Corbyn rather than trying to oust him?
Should Labour MPs be supporting leader Jeremy Corbyn rather than trying to oust him?

Theresa May professes to be a one-nation Tory. However, her cabinet is stacked with right-wing Ministers, who doubtless will pursue policies that benefit only the wealthiest in society.

Despite this, Owen Smith – a Blairite nobody – chooses to fight the democratically elected Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, instead of urging MPs to unite behind Corbyn in challenging disastrous Tory policies.

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What is needed in the Opposition is support for Corbyn’s radical, socialist ideas, as it is such ideas that, when enacted, will benefit the majority of people in society rather than an over-privileged minority.

Policies that are needed include the regeneration of Britain’s manufacturing base, to create skills and good pay for the working classes. Utilities such as electricity, gas, water and railways need to be renationalised. Health care provision requires further funding to cover those in social care. Most importantly the billions May’s Government intends wasting on replacing Trident would be better channelled into education and health services, where it would better serve the public. Also, some of the money could be used to build much needed council houses, to make inroads into housing the forgotten homeless and those on waiting lists.

Finally, unnecessary projects like HS2 need to be scrapped and the billiions saved diverted into manufacturing, to take advantage of the post-Brexit trading era.