HUGH Pender claims anyone who thinks that electing a Tory government is the solution to our problems is living in cloud cuckoo land (HAS, May 20).

It is Mr Pender who is living in cloud cuckoo land, blinkered and wearing ear defenders. He makes weak excuses for Gordon "Humpty Dumpty" Brown, who is perched on a wall, wobbling and insecure - an unelected Prime Minister who soon will fall off the wall, and his untalented Scottish henchmen won't be able to put him together, not ever.

Mr Brown has shown himself to be an out-and-out robber. He plundered pension funds, he steals the ideas and policies of other political parties, and the 10p tax band has not been put right yet. I doubt it will.

You cannot make excuses for this hapless lot of no-hopers and the sooner these Scots are back over the border and out of English politics the better. Alex Salmond and the SDP will see them into oblivion.

Gordon Brown is finished and it will happen soon. Look at the byelection result and the tide turning against him and Labour.

Fred Holdstock, Scotton, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire