So Gordon Brown is standing down from front-line politics next May. This is the man whose ‘light-touch’ regulation (in practice ‘zero touch’ regulation) of the banks and financial sector led directly to the financial meltdown in 2007-2008, aided and abetted by the American sub-prime crisis.

This is the man who kicked the Equitable Life scandal into the long grass for ten long years, whilst over 50,000 policyholders conveniently died, whilst those remaining on their feet are still waiting for the remaining 78 per cent of their compensation to be paid.

This is the man who signed tax treaty agreements with all of the tax havens around the world, most of which are controlled by the UK, thus enabling globalised corporations to evade their tax paying responsibilities by washing their profits through said tax havens.

Today’s letters

This is the man who sold half the nation’s gold at a ridiculously low price, leaving the hard-pressed UK taxpayer out of pocket.

This is the man who eliminated ‘boom & bust’.

This is also the man who has ensured that a substantial number of NHS hospitals will go ‘bust’ due to New Labour’s ruinously expensive PFI deals ‘a la’ Enron.

This man will be enjoying a UK taxpayer pension of £90,000 pa, whilst leaving the marginalised, poor and handicapped to “enjoy” a reduced standard of living as a direct result of his incompetence.

Timothy J Oates St Peter’s Road Abingdon

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