Sir, – Further to you editorial ("Corbyn preaches to the faithful", October 1st), the reason Jeremy Corbyn did not directly address Tory voters from the British Labour Party conference is because they are not his intended constituency.
Rather Mr Corbyn is looking to disaffected Labour voters to return to the party, and young voters – many of whom joined the party to vote for him as leader – with no particular affiliation but who face a very bleak future if the Tories push through their austerity plans unopposed.
It is a long time since anyone in Labour believed that electoral success could be won off the back of a united working-class vote. Tony Blair opted for the “middle ground”; this is perceived by many people in Britain as having disenfranchised them, and it is to these people that Mr Corbyn is appealing. It is a high-risk strategy, but it is a strategy. – Yours, etc,
EOIN DILLON,
Mount Brown,
Dublin 8.