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Your support makes all the difference.It’s time to be honest with ourselves. If the Labour Party had a more moderate leadership it would be poised to rescue us from the horrors of Brexit and a degenerating Tory Party.
Instead, it merely represents a different set of horrors, the latest example of which takes the form of NEC member Peter Willsman, who seems to be saying that he thinks the Israeli embassy might be whipping up antisemitism claims with the party.
Corbyn tantalises us with support for a final say on Brexit. But he cannot be trusted – his ideological heart is not in it. The mainly young people who put Corbyn in place must realise that they have made a mistake, just as they are about to lose their EU citizenship.
John Gemmell
Shropshire
Feel sorry for Alastair Campbell? I say good riddance
Alastair Campbell was expelled from the Labour Party this week for openly admitting he voted Lib Dem in the recent EU parliamentary elections. Those who support the neoliberal politics which Campbell espoused and helped put at the centre of the New Labour project are decrying the treatment of Campbell and are demanding his membership is restored.
It is beyond belief that Campbell, someone who supported the Iraq war and remains so synonymous with such a catastrophic error, until very recently still had a place in the Labour Party.
Sasha Simic
London
Our politicians must be held to account
It is time that we must hold our politicians to account and demand the very highest standards of behaviour from them. If we don’t… Well, just take a look across the pond and you can see where complacency leads.
Julian Self
Wolverton
If we take no deal off the table, the UK will get fleeced
Taking no deal off the table will not deliver Brexit – it will only serve to fatally undermine our chances of getting a deal that will be acceptable to parliament. If you walk into a car showroom and tell the salesman that you will not leave the showroom without buying a car, you are going to get fleeced. We have already seen the results of trying to negotiate under a weak leader who was reluctant to pursue no deal as a viable option. Any Conservative leadership candidate who thinks that ruling out no deal is the way to deliver Brexit is therefore either deluded, actively trying to sabotage the process or (most likely) simply is not capable of delivering the strong leadership that will be required.
P Norsworthy
London
Can HS2 keep British Steel alive?
If the government is still committed to building HS2, then it has an opportunity of helping British Steel to survive until Brexit is over and a buyer for the steelworks can be found.
The steel requirements of HS2 are almost totally predictable. It will need high quality rails as long as possible – which Scunthorpe can provide better than anyone else – and beams and columns to support the power cables. All of these can be purchased now, in advance of the project’s start. Provided there is a proper tendering process the early purchase of the project’s steel requirements will not be in breach of the EU’s state aid code for steel. This could have the added benefit of providing confidence in the market so that other customers might continue buying from British Steel.
Graham Cooper
Smethcott
I’m so, so sick of ‘so’
Why do so many people start an answer – and indeed each sentence – with “so”.
It adds nothing to a reply. When I was on a panel listening to presentations for applicants requesting funds, one person who used it on each occasion bored each of us. It was no wonder that, unanimously, no funds were granted
Martin Levin
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