YOUR Comment column (Echo, Apr 3), while rightly highly critical of Chancellor Gordon Brown's involvement in the great "Pensions Grab", finishes by complimenting him on his stewardship of the economy.
My view is that history will judge him far more harshly. Not only was he fortunate in inheriting the strongest British economy for very many years, but his ten years in Number 11 has coincided with perhaps the best-performing world economy ever.
Not even Mr Brown's genius could have wrecked our economy under those conditions, but I believe history will say he tried very hard to do just that.
It will take his successors years to undo just part of the damage he's done, and it will cost us dearly. I fear for our country's future in a world that is becoming ever more competitive.
Derek Thornton, Stanley Crook, Co Durham.
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