MY fellow Scotsman, Hugh Pender, is correct in pointing out the luck of a Prime Minister (HAS, May 4) neither elected by his own party (as the forgettable John Major was) nor the electorate.

A man who bullied and intimidated his leader (Tony Blair) is not going to give up his term in the big chair unless the country really knows he is there, and that we hate the Tories for it.

Gordon Brown was lucky that working men started losing their jobs. He immediately declared himself their saviour, he bounced back in the polls to prove it – the “dead cat bounce” I wrote about being entirely correct.

Mr Brown has never put at rest the laughing fools who are no longer confident of a safe Labour seat, who have the neck to imagine they represent the working man I pity those that are so pitiful in their desperation to defend a party that no longer holds their values. Every waking headline leaves fresh egg on their face The Labour Party no longer has confidence in Mr Brown. I have never had confidence in him.

I hope that this is the last time we trust people like him with something so valuable again as an economy.

Des More, Darlington.