MR MARK Peer says, referring to me, (letters December 10) “Had Labour won the last election with this current system would there have been this constant whingeing about how unfair the system is....I think not”.

It just shows how wrong one can be.

I suppose he was not at the meeting recently calling for a new system rather than first past the post because, if he had been there, he would have heard me say quite clearly that the supposed landslide that Labour had in 1997 was no such thing, because on 42.5 per cent of the votes they were outnumbered in votes cast by the Conservatives (30.7 per cent) and Liberal Democrats (16.8 per cent).

I continued to say that, even though the Labour party was outvoted by those two parties they Labour party had substantially more seats (418 to Labour, 165 to the Conservatives and 46 to the Lib Dems) which showed how rotten the system was.

It does not matter who wins under this system, it simply is not fair and the sooner people like him realise this, the healthier our democracy will be.

I really do wish that, when people try to attack others, they do get their facts right.

Mr Peer was wrong when he commented on my beliefs.

He then used sarcasm about the new Labour leader, perhaps not realising that Mr Corbyn has brought many thousands of people back into politics.

Yesterday my wife and I were at the Speaker’s House in the House of Commons with 100 or so other members of Amnesty International to celebrate Human Rights Day.

We were addressed by MPs, the speaker, a Syrian refugee and Kate Allen, the leader of Amnesty UK.

It was interesting to see that after Mr Corbyn’s short speech the 100 Amnesty members of all ages surged forward and surrounded him.

An Amnesty International staff worker said that she had never ever seen people mob a politicians like that before.

You might be right about one thing, Mr Peer.

Mr Corbyn is quite an astonishing politician.

Brian Oosthuysen

Stroud