GIVEN that Gordon Brown may now call a snap General Election, then hopefully his country of origin will not become an election issue to the English.
However, I am sure it will if, as Prime Minister, he does not intervene in the sectarian pay rise that has been offered to English nurses. Unlike their Scottish neighbours, the staged 2.5 per cent pay rise, which equates as an annual 1.9 per cent rise, is divisive and anti- English.
Should Mr Brown not put this divisive issue to bed as soon as possible and offer the 2.5 per cent in full now, then he should not be surprised if the highly disgruntled nurses, and other equally disenchanted health staff and junior doctors, take their revenge upon him at the ballot box.
Mark Anderson, Middleton St George, near Darlington.
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