RACHEL Mann (Letters, April 22) urges us to vote Labour and the suggestion is that Theresa May called a snap election.

May did not have the legal power to call an election — it had to be put to Parliament and all but 13 MPs voted to hold an election, not Theresa May.

I have voted Labour all of my life, albeit at times reluctantly, but will not vote Labour again until Corbyn is replaced.

I have contempt for former Labour ministers who have done well out of Labour (Johnson, Burnham and others) with high salaries, privileges, expenses, and status and have done a runner instead of fighting for the party they profess to care about.

The best possible outcome for real Labour Party supporters is to lose the election, gaining insufficient votes to govern themselves or to form a coalition, the Labour Party used to understand that UK voters never support extreme parties of the left or right, reinvent themselves over the next four or five years, and form a team that the public would consider as being fit to run a country.

A disastrous outcome for the country would be a coalition of Labour, SNP, and a ragbag of others.

Labour led by Marxists and some trade unionists who detest the UK, working with the SNP which abhors the UK and would be seeking to damage the UK, with Irish, Welsh and other nationalists running rings around a Corbyn government.

A Corbyn cabinet would have to be made up from the 15 per cent of Labour MPs who support Corbyn — hardly a pool of the talented.

Corbyn’s every utterance on Trident, schools, the NHS, Brexit, the EU and every other subject is promptly denied by his shadow cabinet. Who do we believe?

I took the trouble to go and listen to Corbyn at two meetings.

He put me in mind of Florence Foster Jenkins, the appalling US opera singer who was so bad people kept attending her concerts because they could not believe what they were hearing first time round.

I am certain that a large number of mischievous people voted for Corbyn for a laugh and they formed Momentum to sustain the joke.

Rachel, we need to put Labour out of its misery this time round, and hope that a refreshed Labour can motivate the13 million so far silent Labour voters, and swamp the half million oddballs who put Corbyn in.

Ron Shambley

Clough Avenue

Westhoughton