Dear Uncle James
Thank you for your thought-provoking comments on my last letter (8 July). I accept that personality played a part in my deciding who to vote for. However it also seems to me that your own criticism of the Labour party is centred around personality — i.e. based on Jeremy Corbyn’s personal view of socialism rather than the actual policies put forward by the Labour party, which are not socialist.
I agree that socialism hasn’t worked in the examples you’ve given. However, I don’t think that this is relevant to us today since a Labour government would not turn the UK into a socialist dictatorship.
When it comes to policy, it is those of the Conservative party that caused me concern. Their manifesto was widely acknowledged to be a disaster, with George Osborne calling it the worst manifesto in history.
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