Voting for politicians just encourages them

As a wavering voter – I just cannot make up my mind who not to vote for – I was so pleased to see the prominence you gave to the Tory posters featuring Gordon Brown (your report, 29 March). Such petty, schoolboy politics is pretty patronising to the electorate and should drop the Tories a few points.

Was it not Billy Connolly who put it all so succinctly: "Politicians – dinnae go and vote for em, that just bl**dy encourages them."

DAVID GERRARD

Spylaw Park

Edinburgh

The news that David Cameron has hired Maggie Thatcher's favourite advertising men, the legendary Saatchi Brothers, to bolster his faltering election campaign (your report, 29 March) caught my attention and motivated me into action.

Here, for free, is an idea from an ex-Butlins PR man: I suggest that David Cameron ought to take his beautiful and pregnant wife on a quick trip to Scotland – to Cameron Country – and organise a "Gathering of the Clan Ball".

Cameron in a kilt and his lovely wife in a tartan ballgown would make headlines in the Scottish press... and might just boost the Conservative vote north of the Border – and help avoid a hung Parliament.

PHIL MCCUSKER

Cathcart Rd

Glasgow

Gordon Brown said over the weekend that we must vote Labour as this was the only way to ensure the economic recovery. This is debatable; by delaying tackling the deficit we may lose the confidence of the money markets, necessitating a rise in interest rates to attract cash, thus harming the recovery. Mr Brown cannot be trusted to tackle this anyway as his natural inclination is not to cut; he believes in big government, with consequent high taxes.

There is nothing in his long-term record to inspire confidence anyway; his earlier long-term boom was built on debt and borrowing; this was the man who attacked the pension funds; this was the man who sold much of the nation's gold reserves at a knock-down price.

WILLIAM BALLANTINE

Dean Road

Bo'ness