Labour disaster

My LABOUR friends were uncomfortable with the compromises that being in power required and welcomed with relief the ideological approach of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband

The disastrous results of the past two elections – to say nothing of the catastrophe in 
Scotland – have done little to dent their ardour for leftist purity as the rise of Jeremy Corbyn shows.

However the economic lunacies of a Corbyn-led party would result in it being abandoned by its business donors and leave it at the mercy of the unions and manifestly unelectable.

Yet the failing, one-party state now existing north of the Border where a rampant Nationalist government cannot be held to account underlines the need for an effective opposition.

John Cameron (DR)

Howard Place

St Andrews

Fife