• MARTIN Plaut’s August 1 letter in the CNJ having a go at Andrew Feinstein’s election campaign could have come straight from the propagandist’s playbook, (Andrew Feinstein has brought division and tension into Camden politics).

As Feinstein’s election agent and professor of psychology, I thought your readers might like to see how it is done with a couple of examples.

One.

Develop and repeat a meme besmirching your opponent, using language that is sufficiently imprecise that it cannot be objectively evaluated. Accusing campaign supporters of “haranguing” people repeats the now familiar accusation from Labour sources that their opponents engage in “intimidation”.

Two.

Turn your opponents’ words against them by playing on their meaning: in this case, turning Feinstein’s talk of the campaign being “joyful” into the idea that his supporters “enjoyed” themselves as they “plastered rubbish all across the constituency”.

We can expect Labour to step up its propaganda campaign against the independent left as people come to realise that this Labour leadership has no intention of delivering the change that many were hoping for.

ROBERT WEST, NW5