One thing R. McGrath’s recent letter exposes is that we are indeed very tribally divided and lacking in objectivity and balance at a time when we desperately need politicians who are less opinionated and care for all the people all the time especially when voters give them a reality check as with the vote to leave the unreformable, exploitative EU.

I remember R. McGrath’s previous rather elitist letter in the Observer where he expressed the view that certain groups in the lower socio-economic levels should remain in the EU like sheep and kowtow to the opinions of their ‘more enlightened’ better-offs.

But if the economic cake grows by five per cent, with more mouths to feed, those who have a zero per cent stake will still have zero per cent of nothing, as with house prices.

Many frustrated workers live under austerity in over-congested areas where the risk of a parking fine causes many to have a sleepless night, and don’t have the option like Mr Cameron to walk away from hard graft.

George Orwell states, ‘Political language is designed to make lies truthful and murder respectable’, e.g. ‘we’re all in it together’ to justify austerity on the less well-off, ‘the big society’ to slash public services to the point where they are not fit for purpose eg the police etc.

Corbyn wants some movement on tax cuts and the corrupt tax havens for the wealthy in line with Adam Smith’s 18th century principles of taxation, against watching the health wither on the vine and rushing into privatisation measures to avoid a repetition of a very fractured service as with the railways.

He also favours reforming the anachronistic House of Lords (800 and rising second only to China) where donor cronyism is rife, seeks greater equality and an end to disastrous interventionist foreign policies which have created tsunami waves of refugees and failed states as everyone knows.

The worrying question for many is can we trust those who engineered increasing global instability to build a more cohesive ‘One Nation’ for the UK or in the overcrowded Watford wards?

MLK’s words help to explain the political gap – i.e. increasing voter apathy and growing defiance – which Corbyn seeks to bridge: ‘The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.’

The same cannot be said of Cameron, who appears to have acted like a jellyfish with no backbone with his cheap, disposable soundbite ‘Brits don’t quit’.

Malcolm Meerabux Cassiobury Drive, Watford