Gordon Brown's New Year message to you is that the recession is a "test of character". Just the thing you want to hear when you are worried about how you are going to pay for Christmas, about losing your job and your home . . . that it's all a great character building experience.
And all this from the man whose extreme borrowing has all but bankrupted the country, allowed banks to lend to excess, permitted a runaway housing bubble, raised the tax burden on the average household by £10,000 a year, presided over ever deeper social division and whose economic policies have come together to plunge us into the worst downturn in living memory - possibly since the 1880s. Test of patience would be more like it.
My New Year message to Gordon Brown is simple. Get lost. Yes, the British people should work together to build a better tomorrow . . . one that does not include you.
What would your message to Gordon Brown be?
