9:25am Tuesday 6th May 2008
A COUNTRY which has prices and the cost of living spiralling out of control day to day, which has both food and fuel poverty, which detains people for long periods without trial, which treats the international community with derision, and its electorate with disdain.
I do not refer to Zimbabwe, but Gordon Brown's Britain.
In the wake of last Thursday's local elections it is hoped that this Stalinist leader finds himself in the throes of deposition - not only by the electorate but also by his party.
Examine the reasons for discontent: the abolition of the 10p tax rate, the financial insecurity of businesses due to taxation anomalies and the worry experienced by every household (particularly the poorer paid) due to rampantly rising costs - all were created by Mr Brown who sinks into the shadows while his stooge, Chancellor Alastair Darling, weathers the storms.
This Prime Minister, who has admitted he was wrong about the 10p tax rate, has shown he is unworthy of leadership of not only the Labour Party, but this country.
He will be beaten in the next General Election - as and when he has the courage to call it.
Colin T Mortimer, Pity Me, Durham.
I WOULD never take pleasure in saying "I told you so" but as the last week's local election results came in I couldn't help but recall a letter I submitted last July about a conversation I had with my good friend and fellow HAS correspondent, Christopher Wardell.
The topic was that Labour will not win the next General Election.
Ladbrokes and William Hill would have loved our money at that time.
Among other HAS correspondents, the one who makes a habit of defending his "Iron Chancellor" should now feel lonely.
Conservative Jim Tague, be ready.
Your party will be forming Her Majesty's next government. Instinct says smaller taxes will follow. It's what Tories do best.
To David Lacey, I would wager on a Tory government within two years. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne will put money back in your pocket, where it belongs.
Don't ask this present lot how to spend it. They've had their chance - and they'll have years in opposition to think about where they went wrong.
Des More, Darlington.
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