DESPITE austerity, the national debt currently stands at £1.75 trillion and is rising fast.

Can those who support Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to borrow significantly more to finance his socialist Utopia explain how even part of this sum will be repaid, especially as interest rates are bound to rise?

Mr Corbyn promised far more than he could deliver.

He has already reneged on his promise to wipe out student debt, which would have cost an estimated £100 billion.

Bribing the folk you hope will elect you is known in the USA as pork barrel politics.

Mr Corbyn’s disciples should remember Abraham Lincoln’s reaction when he was inundated with supplicants after he became president.

His memorable response was that there were “too many pigs for the teats”.

Carole Tucker, Highgate, London