SIR – One of the great misconceptions harboured by the public over the last 50 years is that somehow Labour politicians can vastly improve their quality of life.

In Gordon Brown’s book, he states that he is not a financial expert, nor a great economist, so the degree to which he ruined the economy is no great surprise.

He and his troops were nowhere near clever enough to run this country, as their results have clearly shown.

Now, with few ideas of their own, they try to talk down the economy and the logical steps the coalition are taking to put things right, when they should be acting in the national interest.

Make no mistake! Many self-titled socialists’ first objective is to look after themselves.

Peter Fellows, Aspin Park Road, Knaresborough