Dear Pensioner,

Dear Pensioner,

I'm a pensioner too, but if you're the @rsehole who was interviewed on Channel 4 news tonight, I'm afraid that's all we have in common. It seems you couldn't possibly vote for Jeremy Corbyn because he doesn't wear a tie. Are you serious? Let me remind you of the old saying (well, it's old and it's a saying here in Glasgow at least): you can put a pig in a suit but he'll still be a pig.

George Osborne and David Cameron have lovely suits. But (1) Osborne is about to push off out of parliament to do the 4 jobs he just walked into - no interview, not tests - leaving the UK with debts of 1.7 trillion quid. And (2) Cameron threw the UK into a referendum that was meant to win over what John Major called the b@stards in his own party - and he lost. And the rest of us are left watching his successor, a total moron (Theresa May) backed up by other morons (Ian Duncan Smith and Boris Johnson), continuing down the same path. How about, in Corbyn's case, taking the opposite line: you can stand a man up without a tie and, if his ideas are good, he's worth voting for?

Can I just get you to lift your ideas out of the gutter where the Tory Party has put us?

It doesn't matter if you're a supporter of the Union or of independence for Scotland. A royalist or a republican. A Tory or Labour following on how your father and grandfather voted in the past. If you're a pensioner, there's a good chance you're not going to be around 20 years from now. I won't either. But we'll be able to leave our mark on the UK by how we vote in June. This is a really important election. Not for us but for the 30 something people in our families - and their children.

How do you want us pensioners to be remembered? As the selfish sods who voted Tory despite the fact that they are threatening to remove the 'triple lock' on pensions - the only decent thing the Tories have ever done for the elderly in living memory? And all this because you've swallowed the lies put out by the press and TV (well, the BBC) that Corbyn is 'unelectable.'

I've always believed pensioners voted out of a sense of duty but I also thought pensioners were engaged in what's called 'the political process' and would know to ignore Tory propaganda. What's happening here? Has everybody forgotten the famous speech by Nye Bevan:

"What is Toryism but organised spivvery? … No amount of cajolery can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party … So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."

Think hard before you vote.