I ENJOYED Colin Mortimer’s seasonal touch (HAS, Dec 15) about the “saving the world”

Freudian slip of the tongue by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the House of Commons (Echo, Dec 11), which highlighted the worry many people have about a man who shows signs of delusions of grandeur.

I could not help but notice the resulting delight of the Conservative benches and the embarrassment of the Labour MPs.

The Government is taking risks with its strategy to deal with the recession. If, by the end of next year, the measures do not begin to work it will be a sorry day for the Labour Party. I agree with the Keynesian approach, but I am far from certain that the measures will work.

I wish the Labour Party had been able to have more than one candidate to vote for when Tony Blair resigned, but it was a matter for Parliamentarians within the party to accept that Mr Brown had the best chance and therefore had to be supported or they might be overlooked for positions in Government.

It is best to have in leadership someone who is not too big for his boots and does not boast that he has abolished boom and bust, well known characteristics of the capitalist system.

Geoffrey Bulmer, Billingham.

I FOUND Colin Mortimer’s comments (HAS, Dec 15) concerning Gordon Brown’s Freudian slip of the tongue about saving the world (Echo, Dec 11) very interesting.

But Mr Brown’s comments go some way to explain a number of things. They clearly show that his ego is now so big that it has its own gravitational field, which is directly affecting the planet’s weather patterns.

A more accurate biblical comparison would be with King Herod – a fat, useless so-and-so, and a puppet of a foreign government ruled by a corrupt senate. A man who lived in luxury, while the people were bled dry by never-ending taxation and who was hated by the people for all the misery he brought upon them.

CT Riley, Spennymoor, Co Durham.