THE Commons vote on Trident, where around 20 Labour MPs duly trotted in line behind the Tories to continue to waste billions on nuclear weapons, highlights the extent of the problem faced by Jeremy Corbyn (“Corbyn defied by 20 MPs in vote for replacing Trident”, The Herald, November 25). It is clear that his parliamentary colleagues do not respect him or care for his views on Trident – or for that matter much else.
A further example of their complete disregard for him was in the Defence Review debate where, over the course of the debate, every Labour MP who sat on the front bench alongside Mr Corbyn got up and walked out, leaving him sitting alone by the end of the debate.
Irrespective of the wishes of the Labour Party members who voted Mr Corbyn as their leader, it seems clear that the Parliamentary Labour group is in open revolt against him and it can only be a matter of time until he is ditched.
Kenny MacLaren,
2 Avondale Drive, Paisley.
THOMAS Paine said that debating with a man who won’t listen to reason was like giving medicine to a dead man. The total absence of the Tories and most of the Labour party during the debate on the most important moral issue of the age is a depressing revelation of the futility of the charade that passes for debate in the House of Commons.
There is however a consoling aspect to this sickening mummery. At the time of the referendum some people rejected nuclear weapons on principle, but maintained a loyalty to the Union. They hoped to square the circle by voting for a Unionist party that would have a principled opposition to Trident. The futility of this aspiration is now laid bare. All must see that the only road to scrapping Trident is Scottish independence.
I hate to say I told you so, but Trident is now revealed beyond argument to be the sacrosant totem of British nationalism I have always said it was. Loyalty to this obscene idol is blind and deaf - and totally irrational.
Brian Quail,
2 Hyndland Avenue, Glasgow.
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