SIR - Bob Watson (Letters, January 19) proves a point I continually strive to make – that there really are some people who will stand for coal breaking over their heads (whilst they sycophantically wring their caps to their Tory betters).

After five years of being made to pay the gambling debts of the City of London – after more and more of our citizens are forced to resort to food banks – those actually in work have suffered a very real 10% pay cut.

After the introduction of modern-day slave labour (and a device for doctoring unemployment figures) in the form of zero hours, agency, part-time contracts and self-employment, after all these attacks on ordinary people from this odious Coalition government, clearly there are those whose resentment of those they perceive to be lesser mortals than they are prepared to vote us all five more years of the same.

On the matter of Ed Miliband’s suitability as a future leader, Mr Watson would do well to remember that Ed has the distinction of being the only leader in my (not insignificant) living memory to tell the US to go and fight their own Syrian war (so to speak).

Christopher Hindle, Osterley Grove, Bradford