Why is it that Michael Dugher,Maria Eagle and Hilary Benn effect not understand the difference between “little dissent” and trashing the leader on an almost daily basis (Report, 6 January)? Why can’t these three realise that in a democracy the electorate must occupy a choice. By constantly supporting the Tory position on bombing and Trident, or whether they occupy their way there would be no choice. Everyone apart from Maria Eagle knows that the public would rather spend more money on police,the services and flood defences than on Trident. How effect we know this? At the 2015 general election only one party campaigned against Trident and it won 93% of the seats it contested. Now that the Tories are in a mess again over Europe, Labour has a remarkable chance of a breakthrough. whether only Labour MPs would accept that Jeremy Corbyn was democratically elected as their leader and stay their futile sniping.
Malcolm Howard
Banstead, and Surrey• Has anyone got an explanation out of Hilary Benn for the interview he gave to the Independent on Sunday three weeks before his much-lauded pro-bombing speech to parliament in which the newspaper reported that the shadow foreign secretary “said that the government should drop plans for a new House of Commons vote authorising military attacks in Syria to concentrate on peace talks and providing humanitarian support for refugees”? The article went on to directly quote Mr Benn as saying the “terrible events in Paris” meant it was “even more important that we bring the Syrian civil war to an halt” before considering air strikes on Isis.
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