Labour CND Executive Member Rae Street had the following letter on the recent article by Polly Toynbee on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership bid published in the Morning Star on Tuesday 31 June.
Dear Editor,
‘With Friends Like These’….
This week a broadsheet newspaper ran an article by a well known journalist, supposedly Labour Party supporter, on the Labour Leadership, Polly Toynbee.
She wrote that Jeremy was a ‘1983 man, a relic of the election that brought him to parliament when Labour was destroyed by its out-of NATO, anti EU, renationalise-everything suicide note’.
According to this article he is a ‘romantic’ and voting for him would be ‘ignoring the electorate’. Which electorate I ask myself?
She claimed his stand on opposing Trident among other issues made Labour imagine they were ‘unelectably reckless.’ But this commentator seems to be unaware of what happened in Scotland. Voters knew full well the SNP were against Triident and austerity and voted in unprecedented numbers for those policies. They didn’t vote for the Labour Party led by Jim Murphy which was supporting Trident replacement.
Jeremy is not a ‘relic’ ; he represents for thousands of people what the Labour Party should stand for: He is living in the real world where thousands across the UK and the world agree with him.
In solidarity,
Rae Street