I SAW a letter in your paper last week that amused me nearly as much as watching Ken Dodd perform. It was from Peter Crook extolling the virtues of Mr Brown, our Prime Minister, and his perceived abilities to sort out the mess we are in.
It was akin to saying 'The captain of the Titanic did a good job and the crew and passengers were lucky to have him in charge'!
In my humble opinion that lot of incompetents are the worst we have had since Edward Heath's lot of 'strangers to the truth'.
Among many juvenile mistakes he made: he sold off a large part of our gold reserves when the price was at its lowest, losing us nearly three billion pounds.
The next boo-boo was the 10% tax fiasco, where even me, an uneducated peasant, worked out within 30 minutes of his announcement that anyone earning under £18,000 a year would be worse off, so hitting the lower paid (not a very socialist thing to do). Over £18,000 you would be better off.
Mr Brown was Chancellor when billions of our money was pumped into the public sector with no idea how to control where it was spent.
Over one million jobs were found in his ten years, but 700,000 were in the non-productive public sector. We now have more managers and pen-pushers that we have front-line staff.
The idea that borrowing money to give to us to spend will get us out of this mess is risible if it wasn't so tragic. Our grandchildren will still be paying it back.
Lastly, Mr Crook, I recommend you get a book called Squandered, by David Craig. It shows how Gordon Brown has wasted one trillion pounds of our money in eleven years.
D P Hunter
Cox Tor Road
Tavistock