I welcomed M J Warner’s letter, ‘Nice one, Mr Brown’ (SA October 28) because the entire Coalition public relations strategy has been based on falsehoods about Gordon Brown’s stewardship of the public finances. Take the myth that New Labour “spent too much”. The annualised Government spend throughout the Thatcher years was 41 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product, (GDP). This dropped to 40 per cent for the Major Government but there was a further fall to 39 per cent for the thirteen years of New Labour.

Now let’s turn to the lies about the Coalition’s own performance. When George Osborne came to office he claimed his policies would eliminate the public deficit, while he now constantly re-iterates that his policy is working. Well it isn’t! The Coalition has borrowed in four years as much as New Labour borrowed in 13 and it is still entering into PFI agreements.

It is, of course, quite possible that his policies are successfully working towards a hidden Tory agenda to unravel the social improvements achieved by and for the working classes in the aftermath of the Second World War.

We now live in a society where the gap between rich and poor is comparable to the 1930s and the number of poor is growing exponentially. Britain should be able to do better than this.

Don Reeve, Okus Road, Swindon