NOW that Jeremy Corbyn has won a second resounding victory for the Labour leadership, hopefully the Labour Party, particularly its parliamentary representatives, will now concentrate on exposing the appalling policies of the current Conservative government, including its systematic demolition of our National Health Service and its shameful housing (non-) policies, rather than indulge in internecine ego-maniacal attacks on their own leadership.

Within just one year, Corbyn has created the largest mass-membership political party in Europe – an extraordinary phenomenon that no other modern politician could remotely have achieved.

The next step is to win over the country – and a united Labour Party will do this, not by pandering to Conservative-leaning voters and trimming their principles in order to satisfy the right-wing corporatist media, but by bringing ethics and honesty back into the heart of politics.

Indeed, this is the only hope we have for a genuinely progressive and enlightened government in the future.

Politicians of ethics don’t try to manipulate people with objectionable or reactionary views to vote for them by playing Machiavellian games of deception. Rather, they set out their ethical stall, and deeply trust that by appealing directly to people’s higher nature, that is the ethical way to political power.

And of course, Corbyn must also offer a manifesto commitment to proportional representation, and to a fair voting system for all political parties in the run-up to the next election.

As the old song goes, for Labour “Things can only get better…”, now that the needless blood-letting is over.

Yours etc.

Dr Richard House

Stroud