Now is the time to back Corbyn

IN your report about the continuing gripes by some 80 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party (“Labour MPs vow to defeat Corbyn with new ideas”, The Herald, October 24), a “leading party figure” spoke about devising ideas “to challenge him and beat him intellectually”. Does the the Anti-Corbyn Tendency still not get it?

Labour’s socialist leader has now been elected twice in the space of 12 months. Furthermore, his 313,209 supporters represented a two per cent increase of confidence in him. For certain Labour dissenters to say they will seek to beat him “intellectually” is anti-democratic and offensive.

Surely it is time for this band of disloyalists to accept the party’s overwhelming will and put forward to voters those socialist policy ideas that have already been decided upon by their leader – policy ideas that were effectively endorsed by the party’s supporters when we chose Mr Corbyn rather than Owen Smith.

A bit of loyalty wouldn’t go amiss now. Otherwise, when it comes to the candidate selection meetings for the 2020 General Election, certain Labour MPs’ political futures may be hanging on a very shoogly nail. Rightly so, in my humble opinion. Kors Allan, 7 Whitingford, Edinburgh.