I MUST congratulate Dr Richard House on his well written letter (SNJ April 6) in our long-running exchanges regarding the Labour Party becoming unelectable under present leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Dr House had me scurrying to my dictionary.

But nevertheless his articulate letter is nothing but empty bluster in support of the hard left route than that Corbyn is taking his party.

Dr House lost the debate weeks ago when he alleged (and repeated) that Labour never won any elections in the 1990s.

However he seems determined to continue digging.

I’ve answered every point that Dr House has brought up and indeed offered to draw this correspondence to a conclusion but my offer was roundly rejected.

I will now politely suggest to him that he moves on and cease reminding everybody that, at a time when the government is struggling to get its message across to the public, Labour under Corbyn will cease to be thought of as the leading opposition party but instead be perceived as a party of left-wing extremists.

A couple of points in Dr House’s letter demand reply.

Personal poll ratings mean little.

Britain does not run a Presidential type government.

Nigel Farage was the most popular political figure prior to the 2015 General Election but his party secured just one seat at Westminster.

Dr House runs frit of mention of the 1983 General Election, and rightly so.

He blames the Falklands factor for Labour’s electoral hammering but fails to mention that it was their own leaders who condemned Labour’s left-wing manifesto as ‘The longest suicide letter in history’ a lesson the present-day Labour Party appear to have forgotten.

Tom Newman

Stroud