Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party isn’t so radical | Letters
by Letters from on (#3ZP15)
Readers reflect on policies laid out by the leader of the opposition and the shadow chancellor John McDonnell at the party's conference in Liverpool
I am no fan of Jeremy Corbyn. He has been an ineffective leader of the opposition in parliament, failing to take advantage of a hopelessly inept PM and many political open goals. However, I am fed up with the grudging critique of many of your commentators.
Martin Kettle asserts that "Labour has now been radically transformed into a party in the leader's own far-left political image" (Can Labour solve the Brexit question? Now it's imaginable, 27 September). What Corbyn's Labour is proposing would have been seen as mainstream social democracy in the 1960s and 70s: a refashioning of a mixed economy of public and private ownership which is still in existence in parts of Europe.
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