Any organisation in the private sector that I know has reduced costs by at least 10% going into 2009. A 10% cut in state waste - sorry spending would give us back roughly £65 billion pa. Yet Yvette Cooper expects praise for reducing spending by £5 billion over 3 years or 0.25% pa

Mike, London,

Mr Brown has his words, such as Global to cover his monumental mistakes over the last 11 years. It is no good blaming the Tories'cos they are not in power and if they have a good idea Brown pinches it.The bankers are responsible for most of the problems but Brown spent all our money. he saved nil.

Earl Lavender, cirencester, England

You can't buy yorself out of a recession!

Ian, London, England

Greed, in the boardrooms of banks in the USA and worldwide, is the sole reason for this worldwide crisis.
Not the Republican administration or any other government.
The banks must be held to account, they got us into this mess they must now get us out.

Ray, Worcester, UK

Brown sowed the seeds of the current situation, whilst he was chancellor, by destroying the pension system, selling off the UK's gold reserves at a ludicrously low price and borrowing exstensively during a boom. Yet, he still tries to claim that the 'good' times were all of his making.

Tom, Princes Risborough,

2 years ago he was talking about the economic miracle that he had us believe started in 1997, now this is nothing to do with him, it's a global problem. Who sold UK gold reserves off cheap, oversaw record levels of personal debt, frittered away 3G licence money, cocked up the new GP payment scheme?

Tim, Cambridge, UK

As a profession that has partial VAT exemption, the change in rates has been an onerous burden that we could have done without. It has made very little difference in terms of savings for the consumer but has taken us over a month to sort out.

P Lewis, Northampton,

If Brown had left things as they were when he inherited the system from Ken Clarke, this calamity would not have occurred. It would have been seen coming.
He was warned repeatedly by the Lib Dems & the Tories 4 years ago of the huge risk of all our debt.
"No. You are wrong & I am right." he said!

Phil, Preston,

I do not know how the PM can continue to say the Tories are a do nothing party when his latest measure to help businesses by loan guarantee is virtually a replica of the Tories national loan scheme idea. I,m sure the electorate will catch on eventually to Labour tactics

Robert, Caen, France

It seems to me that Brown's taunts are there to mask the fact that he really doesn't have much of a clue what to do about the economy. I don't hear anything convincing coming from him about the real roots of this economic crisis - he just seems determined to blame anybody and anything but himself.

Lorne, Ayr, UK

I'm proposing that we cut public spending!

Stuart, Chichester, England