Ode to Gordon Brown MR BROWN may think he has saved the world but nearly everyone else outside the New Labour bunker knows he has utterly wrecked the public finances – first as Chancellor and now as unelected Prime Minister. As a result, millions of people have started the countdown to the general election.

Until that happy day, here is a cut-out-and-keep prompt to be taken along to the polling station when the time comes: Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust; Gordon Brown, boom and bust. New Labour Out! New Labour Out! New Labour Out!

M MOLYNEUX, Bramshaw.