ONE of the great misconceptions harboured by the public over the past 50 years is that somehow the Labour Party could vastly improve their quality of life.

In Gordon Brown’s book, he states that he is not a financial expert, nor a great economist, so the degree to which he ruined the economy is no big surprise. He and his troops were nowhere near clever enough to run this country as their results have clearly shown.

Now, with few ideas of their own, they try to talk down the economy and the logical steps the coalition are taking to put things right, instead of acting in the national interest.

Make no mistake, many self-titled socialists’ first objective is to look after themselves.

Think Tony and Cherie Blair, John Prescott, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, along with quango and council chief executives.

Peter Fellows, Aspin Park Road, Knaresborough.

• I AM sure that I am not the only citizen who is astonished by the guilty silence of the former Labour government.

Not once have they defended their corner after the Conservatives claimed Labour had left the cupboard bare. I cannot see the remotest possibility that the party will ever see the corridors of power in the future.

This begs the question what political party will fill this growing vacuum. I believe there is an emerging answer to this in the form of the growing resurgence of the Liberal Party, knowingly independent and hungry to fill some local council seats in the 2011 elections.

The Liberal Democrats have never have had any particular loyalty and the situation with the Conservatives is just an opportunistic moment.

Kendal Wilson, Wharfebank Terrace, Tadcaster.