Writing as someone coming from "an alienated fringe
of the middle class", finding comfort in "belonging in an anti-capitalist
protest movement", I found John Gray`s attack on Corbyn particularly malicious
(Closing of the liberal mind, 4th November 2016). To suggest that his policies
have been "plucked from a blue sky, without any attempt to connect them with
earthbound facts" is simply anti-Corbyn propaganda, better suited to the Tory
tabloids. Is it not a fact that privately-owned railway companies have been
ripping off British taxpayers for too long, not to mention their customers?
Nationalisation of the railways is long overdue. Am I wrong in thinking
anti-austerity policies are needed because the Tory-initiated austerity
programme was simply an excuse to shrink the state back to pre-war levels? Has
inequality not increased partly because of the rich being undertaxed, and the
fictional Laffer curve guiding Tory fiscal policy?
Gray was right to say that Labour`s moderates
were "so devoid of new thinking" they only offered "empty slogans that reeked of
the past". It makes little sense, therefore, to attack so spitefully a Labour
leader offering policies different from those of both the Tories and his
predecessors, based as they are on fairness and equality of
opportunity.
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