Jeremy Corbyn is bringing Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson's values back to the Labour Party

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Jeremy Corbyn has won a decisive victory over challenger Owen Smith, with 61.8% of the vote (Christopher Furlong/Getty)

Surely the whole point of Jeremy Corbyn is to drag the Labour Party back from its present right-of-centre position to left-of-centre – one favoured by Clem Attlee and Harold Wilson – and then to propose a socialist programme and persuade the electorate to vote for it. If the Blairite rump cannot cope with this, let them form another party.

Martin Val Baker Penzance

Who won and who lost in yesterday's Labour Party leadership election? I would suggest that Jeremy Corbyn won but the party lost. There has always been, and now remains, a puzzle at the heart of Labour’s philosophy: is the party principally about nationalisation and enforced equality, or something gentler? Until this basic issue is resolved, we are unlikely to see the opposition become the government.

Rev Andrew McLuskey Staines

Who owns the Labour Party? The members who have voted for a leader rather more convincingly than the country that voted for Brexit? Or the current Labour MPs, many of whom are on strike from cooperating with their leader, whose mandates expire when Parliament is dissolved for the next general election? Or those who voted Labour at the last election, but not in sufficient numbers to enable a Labour government? If it were a company, you would readily say the shareholders rather than the management or the customers, so why does this not apply to the Labour Party?

Jon Hawksley London, EC1

In a recent Guardian article, Ben Bradshaw MP stated that Jeremy Corbyn is no leader. The people have spoken twice now because he and all the other Blairite MPs have been plotting against him. He is the leader we have chosen. Bradshaw, you should support him, or stop knocking the Labour Party and join the Conservatives instead. Or, perhaps you could join Ed Balls on Strictly Come Dancing.

Kathleen O’Neill Address withheld

The analogy is an old one, but to liken the current manoeuvres by the Labour Party leadership to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic seems appropriate.

Guy Rose London, SW14

I think Mr Corbyn is a decent principled man with whom I agree on many issues, but he simply is not a leader.

Robin Cavan Address withheld

Liberals can govern again

We seem to have gone back 50 or 60 years here, in what remains of our United Kingdom. That is, we have an extreme left-wing Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn, and an extreme right-wing nasty (her word) Conservative Party led by Theresa May, and we’re soon to be outside the European Union that we paid for and helped to create. In the meantime, we have about the largest debt of any nation in the world.

All those who believe there has to be a middle ground must now get behind the Liberal Democrats, including defectors from the other parties. The Liberals, and before them the Whigs, have governed this country. Let's do that again, and then take charge of the European Union. If not, Britain will become isolated and Scotland and Northern Ireland will leave the UK, followed probably by Wales.

Why are we in this mess? One name: Farage.

Richard Grant Ringwood

The six camps of Brexit

There is another camp, number six, that Denis MacShane has omitted: the Independent Europeans. These are the people who desire a Europe of common values with mutual cooperation and agreements, but without the legislative machinery of the European Commission and the European Parliament.

LJ Atterbury Pila, Poland

Workplace worries

Those who worry about the prevalence of insecure, low-paid work should heed Occam's Razor. Simply pursue an even-handed immigration policy that is not biased against Britain's unskilled citizens. Lo and behold, the market will raise unskilled pay. Of course, we will have to opt out of the EU free movement accord: not to do so is to say goodbye to a living wage.

Yugo Kovach Winterborne Houghton, Dorset

It’s just not cricket

Gore's suggestion that the ECB and BBC should consider having more coverage of cricket could also apply to The Independent. Until the final day of the County Championship, your coverage was sparse – if it could be found at all. Likewise rugby: nothing on the Bristol-Exeter game. I think your sports coverage requires improvement, as well as the BBC's.

Peter Downey Bath

Terms of discourse

The apartheid term “non-white” was rejected as racist by all South African opponents of apartheid as early as the 1950s. You use the term “ethnic minority” in the caption to the photograph illustrating your story about school children’s countries of birth being questioned, but your headline uses “non-white” instead. You would obviously regard it as demeaning to substitute “non-male” for “female”. What makes it acceptable to refer to ethnic minorities as “non” anything?

David Maughan Brown York