I WRITE to request an opportunity to reply to the rantings of one Ian Greenhalgh (Letters, October 5) in reply to my letter urging the electorate to reject the ill-founded policies of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.

What Greenhalgh does in his letter, and which is sadly typical of left wingers like him, he purports to import meanings into my letter which are clearly not their and then proceeds to comment upon his own agenda.

This gentleman's lack of the basic grasp of economic principles is staggering, in common, I might add, with Corbyn.

Proof, if proof were needed, that Corbyn and Greenhalgh's economic policies are a disaster waiting to happen, can be seen by examining the current plight of Venezuela.

Corbyn has long seen Maduro, the president of that country, as his blue-eyed boy and one who puts into practice Corbyn's long-held beliefs.

And what has Maduro and his crazy economic policies achieved? He has virtually bankrupted a once vibrant and thriving country by pursuing outdated left-wing dogmatic policies.

The perilous state of Venezuela's situation has lead Maduro to go cap in hand this week to Putin, of all people, in order to seek a bail-out of some £4.5 billion.

Mr Greenhalgh, that is a staggering figure, even for naive socialist policies that you seek to impose upon our own country.

The electorate will again see through the crass nonsensical policies that Greenhalgh and his left-wing sympathisers seek to impose upon us.

I enjoy intelligent economic debate in the correspondence section in this paper.

Some correspondence, however, needs to be read as a source of amusement and not as a serious contribution.

Ian Holland

Bolton