How Gordon Brown has the audacity to show his face, after the pensions fiasco, beggars belief. He raided £100 billion of pensions fund cash, then tries to blame the civil servants who gave him their advice.

On that note, he seems to be a puppet to the civil servants, so do we need a chancellor at all, I wonder? Fortunately it doesn't affect me but there's an army of cash-strapped pensioners out there who might scupper Brown's hope of being the PM.

Of course, Brown ignored all warnings on this matter simply because his gold-plated pension is safe in a civil service vault. Like me, I reckon there's a great many people who would like to see Brown's grinning mug in the stocks with everyone having a shot at it with rotten tomatoes.

B Thomas, Redruth