Corbyn has failed and is grist to May’s mill

IT is neither “left-wing” nor a lie to point out that the PM lost her majority in her snap general election and relies on a £1.5bn bribe to the DUP, despite the fact that her Brexit Red Lines threaten the Northern Ireland peace process.

If Corbyn had the conviction and the gumption to explain to Labour voters in south Wales, the Midlands and northern England that Brexit will mean even more austerity cuts to health, education, and social care he would now be in Number 10 as many Conservative voters do not want a Ukip-Tory government threatening their public services and making “the just about managing” unable to manage.

Corbyn will never be Prime Minister because he is unacceptable to the majority of voters and the sooner he and the Labour Party recognise this the better chance we will all have of a government that can actually govern and properly represent our views on both the left and the right.

He has a valid point that the Tory Party’s acceptance of the millions stolen from the Russian people risks turning us into a MacMafia state but the Commons’ condemnation of the use of an illegal nerve agent on British soil was not the occasion to make it.

All he has done is to hand Mrs May the chance to strengthen her tenuous hold on power by posturing as a potential war leader in the same mode as Mrs Thatcher over the Falklands.

This makes our far-from-splendid isolation all the more dangerous and must give Putin cause for gleeful satisfaction at the damage done to the European Union. Margaret Phelps Penarth