Quite clearly Adam Trimingham sees Gordon Brown through rose coloured spec-tacles.

Mr Brown thinks he is the President of Great Britain. He takes all the decisions and cannot delegate any matters to his Cabinet colleagues.

I doubt if any member of the public can can name more than three members of the Cabinet. Look at the floods in Cumbria. You would expect the Environment Minister to be there talking to the residents, but no it’s Gordon Brown.

The result is that he wants to organise everything in the country but time and again he makes the wrong decision. The letter to Mrs Janes was sent with good intentions but scribbled in haste and as a result had the opposite effect to that intended. He sold the country’s gold reserves at $276 an ounce. The current price of gold is $1,140 an ounce. Perhaps Mr Trimingham can tell us how much this action has cost the country?

He took us to war in Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction, but there were no such weapons. Perhaps Mr Trimingham can tell us how much the Iraq War has cost us?

Mr Brown has taken us to war in Afghanistan against the Taliban. Why should we support the Mujahideen against the Taliban when the two sides will never agree and will continue to fight against each other whether we are there or not – and we cannot exterminate all the Taliban.

Mr Brown should tell us how much the war is costing Britain and how soon we can withdraw from that country, for we certainly cannot afford such a war.

Mr Brown appears oblivious to the fact the National Debt is rising at £3 billion a week and he blithely says he will halve the deficit in four years but fails to tell anyone how he will do this.

He has not been elected to office by the British people and one shudders to think of the damage he can do to the British economy before the next election.

B Bayliss Mornington Crescent, Hove

NOTE: Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, visited the flood-damaged areas of Cumbria on the same day as the Prime Minister – Editor