Toby Wood suggests that Jeremy Corbyn’s new party should be called the Allotment party (Letters, 8 August). More appropriate would be the Diggers, after the radical and egalitarian group that emerged during the English revolution in the 1640s. Its members were rightly identified by Tony Benn as “the first true socialists”.
Lynn Williams
Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
• In view of the commitments that setting up a new party involves, maybe Jeremy Corbyn, come next February, might try the no-dig method on his allotment. It will save time and his back.
Chris Palmer
Doonfoot, Ayrshire
