THE great songwriter and poet, Bob Dylan once said: “If a man can get up on a morning, do what he wants all day, then go to bed at night when he wants, then he is a success.”

More and more people are possibly believing this, when there is less incentive to get up and work for a poor day’s pay, almost half being swallowed up by one tax or another.

Much will have been wasted by the last regime trying their hand at governing, and a lot supporting the millions who are afraid of work.

Moreover, disillusionment is caused when people see mockingly high amounts of money being showered on people who don’t seem to be doing very much for their gains. Gordon Brown’s stewardship of the economy was a disaster, with him seemingly more interested in spin, half-truths, and massaged statistics on everything.

If he was as close to the Scottish Presbyterian Church as he liked to make out, all I can say is that he was not a good advert for it.

Mr J T Emmerson, Cromer Street, York.