IN his reference to Jeremy Corbyn and his promises, D Cook answers his own question about an alternative to the Tories (Letters, October 7).

He also doubts the policies that Corbyn advocates, yet Theresa May has hijacked three of them, ordering the building of more social housing and the capping of student fees and energy bills.

Hardly extreme by any standards.

Nor is it radical to ask for a fair and equal society where nobody dodges paying the taxes that fund the services we all use.

If state-owned utilities and railways serve our friends in Europe and elsewhere in good stead, they can do so here.

Royal Mail - note the prefix - was privatised despite the protestations of the majority to whom a change has been detrimental.

These and other issues I have raised before are why voters, especially the young, are supporting Corbyn.

Summoning up scare stories of a past they could not care less about will not deter them.

Dave Barker, Huntington, York