AS usual it was delightful to see yet another "down to earth" and common sense contribution to the letters page by Axmed Bahjad such as was "In Support of Jeremy" (The Adver, August 29)SA 29th August.

The four points that Mr Bahjad made concerning Jeremy Corbyn are both concise and accurate to a tee, as this very experienced and longstanding Labour MP is not in to, and has never been, into mudslinging, which unfortunately cannot be said concerning the other three hopefuls. Indeed, he does not rise to the bait, or involve himself with the defamatory nonsense that is being written about him in the predominantly anti-Labour Party media, as really he does not need to in order to impart his ideals to all from a position of quiet and well thought out, reasoned, logical argument.

During this last weekend I happened to visit a relative that buys The Sun newspaper, primarily because, by all accounts, the horse racing page that it produces is second to none.

Having never bought the ‘daily’ in question myself I casually opened its pages only to be quite amused by an article in reference to Jeremy Corbyn which was referring to him as being a ‘left wing firebrand’ who, in so many words, would lead the country to nothing short of galloping ruin.

This cannot surely be the same mild-mannered, logical thinking Jeremy as it seems to refer to him as being some sort of belligerent alien visitor from a different planet, which seemly points to the ‘current status quo’ scurrying around, whilst throwing up its hands in horror at the thought of someone of his ilk coming forth with different ideals which are seen as nothing other than being a threat to its current cosy, long-established existence.

Jeremy has already put his head firmly above the parapet in stating that his ideals stand for renationalisation of the railways, and not the promised step-by-step fudge being offered up by Andy Burnham, and also the renationalisation of the "rip-off energy companies", who have been condemned time and time again as being found engaging in blatant profiteering, with the poor as always bearing the brunt.  Undoubtedly this will, I am certain, bring forth the immediate rollout of time-honoured old chestnut that has been firmly instilled in to the minds of the British public by a manipulated media which blindly and unquestionably serves the interests of the established order, by stating yet again renationalisation would cost the country too much.  However, surely the spiralling cost of rail travel and the quite blatant rip-off profiteering by the energy companies has hurt every one of us, and what’s more shows no signs of stopping., and so Surely the answer to the old chestnut is to use the obscene profits that are being made out of all of us, which go to feather the nests of the majority corporate shareholders or foreign owners, to foot the bill of renationalisation so as some semblance of accountability and common sense can be returned in place of the current continual "financial self-serving rip-off" that we are all being made unwitting victims of, and Britain can once again be returned to being a place of equality and fairness for all.

Finally, many including myself would argue that it was a mistake of epic proportions that these essential services and utilities were stolen from the taxpayer and given over to private profiteers in the first instance, and Jeremy’s thinking is very pertinent to the current situation, and certainly not outdated or old fashioned as the established order would have us all believe, but forward modernist thinking.  G A WOODWARD Nelson Street Swindon