I WAS disappointed to hear Gordon Brown playing the same dishonest games as Tony Blair in trying to spin the arguments of those who question the wisdom of Private Finance Initiative borrowing to fund health services as "the old sterile divide which pitted public against private".

I had thought that, of the two, he was the more solid. He knows full well there is little more sterile than dead public money being spent on servicing shareholder dividends.

There is no fight between the two; private and public funding have their place. If anyone is ideologically challenged over PFI borrowing for public services, it is certainly the Trinity which runs the show these days - Blair, Brown and whoever is the Holy Ghost at the moment.

WENDY HANDS,

Upton-upon-Severn,

Worcestershire.