SO, Brian Derbyshire wishes to subject us to his latest diatribe regarding the intelligence of voters in the poll on the increase in social housing rents.

If Mr Derbyshire should have looked at the bigger picture and long-term plan when he was younger.

He has gone on record in the letters page by saying that he always preferred to rent as opposed to getting a mortgage — though why it should be social housing and not a private arrangement I don’t know — and this, Mr Derbyshire, is where it all comes undone.

If you had entered into a mortgage when younger, you would now have no mortgage and, as such, no rental payments.

Does Mr Derbyshire not realise that the “unintelligent” voters are the people who have subsidised his choice of living arrangements while he languishes in cheap housing, at our expense, depriving a family of a home who genuinely need it?

I know Mr Derbyshire will reply that he is concerned for the financial welfare of all people in social housing, but is this because it directly affects him due to his lack of foresight and planning?

Maybe Mr Derbyshire is the intelligent one by letting everyone else pay for his choice of living arrangements. One thing springs to mind . . . “As ye sow, so shall ye reap”.

Paul Cook Bolton