Your View: Jeremy Corbyn is Wrong Letter

Jeremy Corbyn's statements on foreign policy betray his commitment to Far Left extremism at the cost of filtering out the real world.  He states that he would never be in favour of any action in Syria without a UN mandate.  But since the reality is that Russia on the UN Security Council has vetoed anything to do with Syria, Corbyn is effectively confirming that veto.  He is also wrong to say that the UK has been wrong to be involved in any war since World War 2.  If he had his way there would have been many more dead in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Malaya to name a few beneficial interventions.

Regards

Zachary Barker

Bristol

Letter to the I: Commonwealth as a trade bloc Letter

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was right to question the wisdom of advocating the Commonwealth as a replacement trade bloc for the EU.  While there are arguably service sector gains to be made from free trade pacts with parts of the Commonwealth, gains in terms of imports and exports would be limited.  Geography would impose an extra cost on imports and exports with regards to markets in  Australia and even Canada for example.  A friend of mine who owns a haulage business put it well.  He claimed that it is a lot more useful for him to have free movement of goods and people to France than it would be to have the same to India.

Regards

Zac Barker

Bristol