Jeremy Corbyn's opponents within the Labour Party would do well to remember that he won the leadership twice, fair and square

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It’s not helpful for the party to keep coming at Corbyn rather than at our opponents (Getty)

In today’s article “Labour MP Chris Leslie accused of ‘disloyalty and deceit’ as he loses no-confidence vote from local party”, Chuka Ummuna quoted Jeremy Corbyn’s speech where he said that “we must learn to listen a bit more, and shout a lot less. To focus on what unites us.” Umunna added: “Not sure everyone got the memo, so to speak.”

Just to remind Umunna, Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, Gavin Shuker and others, as I am not sure everyone got the results of the last two Labour leadership elections, that Corbyn was elected overwhelmingly not once, but twice.

And so, as chair of mid-Suffolk rural Labour party branch, I ask Corbyn’s persistent critics in the party, and former ministers (much sought after, much quoted by the news media): please reflect on the harm you have done and are doing to the Labour cause, especially when another “snap election” is very much on the cards, or do you see that as collateral damage in pursuance of your main objective?

Eddie Dougall
Suffolk

Violent crime rates are the Tories’ fault

The home secretary Sajid Javid is right to view violent crimes through the prism of a public health approach. However, he does not seem to realise that his government policies have done much to accentuate economic hardships, pouring petrol on fire by rolling out the universal credit scheme, forcing people to rely on food banks, inflicting abject misery on them and leaving them absolute victims of homelessness, economic destitution, greed, social ghettoisation, feral knife stabbings, homicides, acid attacks, Afrophobia, Islamophobia, terrorism, extremism and antisemitism.

It is time to take a resolute and comprehensive action to thwart antisocial behaviour and mend our broken society.

Dr Munjed Farid Al Qutob
London NW2

Glad to see the government realises there’s a world outside of London

How wonderful and so generous of Theresa May to help spread the growth outside of London by giving 10 cities a share of £1.7bn to improve their transport, especially as £15bn is being spent to whizz Londoners from the east to the west of their city.

And our leaders wonder why the the rest of the country feels neglected and resentful.

Ken Twiss
Yorkshire

We must address the collective memory loss leading to disastrous consequences

I notice that vaccination deniers have been back in the news lately, mainly concerning problems in Italy. This craziness is caused by the same phenomenon of collective memory loss that has caused a Europe-wide surge in support for the far right.

In a nutshell, the generation that would have clearly remembered the yearly epidemics, the routine deaths of children in the neighbourhood and the small army of people affected for life by preventable disease are now virtually all gone.

Sad to say, it may well take a bad epidemic to get the average citizen to wake up and stop listening to crackpot populists who know nothing and care even less about the consequences of their actions.

Robert Boston
Kent

There are lessons to be learnt from the Bill Cosby trial

The trial and conviction of Bill Cosby is a long and sad story, although there are a few lessons that can be learnt.

The first is the reality that even your heroes are fallible and that “stranger danger” is less of a risk than “all people can be dangerous”. It is sad that we should all be cautious of each other as the result of a few people’s actions.

This is another story of the status of celebrity seemingly giving someone immunity to the normal laws and codes of behaviour. It is pleasing to see that this is not the legal reality and that they are subject to the same rules – and, more importantly, punishments.

The 60 or more women who told similar stories shows how important it is that victims feel comfortable to speak up (although, of course, no one should be condemned for not doing so). There is also a need to review that statute of limitations, as the crime is still an event that occurred and the consequences and pain may be never-ending.

Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne

Something to look forward to

I can’t be certain that it’s true but I heard a story the other day that Simon Cowell and his partner were out in the countryside recently, enjoying the nice weather, when they found themselves surrounded by a herd of cows. Having got his attention, the creatures proceeded to moo in unison while moving rhythmically. Anyway, long story short, it seems that the X Factor impresario signed them to his record company and we can expect to see Scene & Herd performing the Low Commotion in time for Christmas.

Julian Self
Milton Keynes