YP Letters: Corbyn sticks to his principles by not attacking individuals

WHEN I joined the Labour Party 70 years ago, one of our rules for campaigning was “Attack the system, not the individuals”.

Jeremy Corbyn keeps to this principle and doesn’t retaliate in kind to the farrago of abuse from within and beyond the Westminster establishment.

I think he takes this a shade too far by not reminding us all that Theresa May voted for the 2003 attack on Iraq.

The Times newspaper has reported that Theresa May made the Manchester bombing an election issue by accusing Jeremy Corbyn of blaming British military action overseas for terrorist attacks in the UK. She said: “I want to make one thing very clear to Jeremy Corbyn and to you; it is that there can never ever be an excuse for terrorism.”

Yet, if it is not really clear to her that identifying a provocation is one thing and excusing a monstrous reaction is another, the lady is as blind as a bat in a room with 40 searchlights. But if she does know the difference she needs to retract her attack quickly for the sake of honest politics, lest she continues as a dangerous woman, fishing for votes in the bloodstained waters of Manchester and elsewhere.

From: Michael Green, Baghill Green, Tingley, Wakefield.

JEREMY Corbyn believes the British Government may need to rethink its foreign policy relating to the Middle East following the Manchester attack.

He says this, apparently, because he finds some logic in the claim of those followers of dogmatic forms of Islam, who allege that the involvement of western forces in the conflicts of the Middle East is tantamount to an attack on Islam and should be punished.

But, of course, that is not the only claim put forward. They also believe that all forms of music and entertainment are sinful; that women should be subservient to men, be veiled at all times, and should not receive an education; and even that democracy itself is evil because it places the authority of men above that of God. Would Mr Corbyn tell us if he thinks that the next Government should rethink its position on these issues as well?

From: Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley.

THE BBC TV debate in Cambridge was to give a bunch of also-rans an opportunity to attack the Government. What else could we expect from the BBC? The location in a strong Remain constituency, another sleight of hand by the BBC.