Jeremy Corbyn

• COUNCILLOR Caroline Russell, the only Green in the village, put a case that was cynical and unrealistic (Why I want second vote on EU exit, April 28).

She sideswiped the Tories over their plans for an “extreme Brexit” but saved her obvious electioneering volley for the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry.

Yes, 78 per cent of Islington voters – I was one of them – wanted to Remain; 51 per cent nationally did not. Yes, we were served both sides of the Tory muddle in the forms of smear and fear – “If we leave, economic collapse” and “If we leave £350m a week for the NHS.” Both have proved to be untrue.

In the highest turnout since 1952 – 72 per cent – the voters, by a margin of less than 1.3 million out of 34 million, endorsed leaving the EU. Mr Corbyn, as leader of the Labour party, has to recognise a national desire to leave the EU.

The Greens want us to swallow an unpalatable local dish the country does not want to eat. It’s so easy for the Greens to argue for anything because there is no chance, with only one MP, of gaining support for anything they call for. So why not a slogan of “Free beer for all the workers”?

Brexit is in its entirety a Conservative Party problem. In this election they want us to take our eyes off the ball – off issues such as the housing crisis, NHS funding, an education system where teachers beg for books, 500,000 foodbanks (in comparison to 47,000 under Labour in 2009), the zero hours con trick, and many more.

The Greens show their true colours to be blue when they attack the messenger, only to help silence the message.

PATRICK EDLIN, N1