While collecting my Guardian this morning, I was struck by the sheer hatred of Jeremy Corbyn and all that he and the Labour party stand for in the headlines in other papers. The Mail, Express, Telegraph were so full of hatred I fully expected them to be suggesting we all bought brown shirts and started parading in the streets. Never, as a proud citizen of this country for almost 75 years, have I felt so alienated from at least half of my fellow citizens as I do on the day before we all cast our vote. Let us hope the young people of this country come out and vote for their future in this election.
David Watson
Nutley, East Sussex
• Reading Gary Younge (6 June), I am guilty as charged. I feel like a rat returning to a ship that, contrary to reports, is not sinking. I had doubts about Corbyn, and I still have some. But I doubt my doubts, because I am not sure they’re mine. Portrayals in the media have been so deceitful that I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and voting Labour. Voting for another party would be a proxy vote for Murdoch and the Barclay brothers. Corbynites who have stayed on board throughout, please be nice to us rats.
Jason Buckley
Chelmsford, Essex
• The Women’s Budget Group has shown that 86% of government savings via austerity has come directly from women – more than £66bn in tax changes and cuts to social security – so women are repaying the national debt while being refused vital services for their families. It’s the Conservative party that has a magic money tree. It’s called women.
Joanna Liddle
Ledbury, Herefordshire
• The four-times PM William Gladstone was a great champion of gardening, which, he said, “cultivated a sense of beauty in the people”. Gladstone, who backed “the masses against the classes”, would, I think, approve the symbolism of Jeremy Corbyn’s allotment, where the individual meets the collective.
Emma Jones
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
• I shall be voting on Thursday in the knowledge that there hasn’t been a prime minister with a beard since Lord Salisbury in 1902, and this is a once in a century chance to get a further one.
Keith Flett
London
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