ROYAL APPOINTMENT FOR COMRADE CORBYN?

Just a suggestion in case the Queen reads the letters pages of The Independent: perhaps she could privately invite Jeremy Corbyn round for a chat?

The Labour leader interacts well with different social classes. His obvious honesty might be a refreshing change for the Queen, and a concern about social cohesion might be a thing they have in common, judging by Margaret

Thatcher’s biography by Charles Moore.

The book recounts how an item in The Sunday Times of July 1986, later denied but with a reliable source, suggested that the Queen was concerned that the approach of Mrs Thatcher was uncaring, confrontational and socially divisive, and that the Government should be more caring towards the less privileged in society.

No kneeling, swearing or kissing of hands would be necessary, but at a later date an announcement could be made that Her Majesty had already met Mr Corbyn, and he was now a member of the Privy Council. Sally Parrott Cranleigh, Surrey Jeremy Corbyn may feel uneasy at the prospect of bending a knee before the Queen, but he must know that he already effectively did so when he took the loyal oath upon entering the House of Commons as an MP.

Not only has he repeatedly pledged his allegiance to an unelected head of state; he also, de facto, adheres to the Treason Felony Act of 1848, which makes it an offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to even discuss the abolition of the monarchy.

Mr Corbyn’s revolutionary zeal may strike a chord with a new generation of impressionable acolytes, but for genuine republicans, and indeed for true Jacobites, he is as much a conservative defender of the status quo as is David Cameron. Colin Burke Manchester

Corbyn’s obvious honesty might be a refreshing change for the Queen