Straight to the POINT

IN THE leaders’ debate Nicola Sturgeon insisted that ‘education should always be about the ability of the child and not about the ability to pay’. Yet she charges English and Welsh students to go to Scottish universities while Scots go free. COLIN MACDONALD, Bottesford, Nottingham.

AS AN Englishman watching the leader’s debate, I only wish I had the opportunity to vote SNP. B H COLE , Market Bosworth, Nuneaton.

NIGEL FARAGE was lambasted for mentioning people arriving from abroad with HIV. Yet when a consultant reveals that 95 per cent of beds at a top hospital were taken by people who should not qualify, he is a ‘valued whistleblower’. IAN VERDON, Watford, Herts.

THEY all did very well avoiding the truth except Farage. He was the only person who gave good honest answers. JAMES WYATT, Southampton.

THE clear winner was Julie Etchingham, the mediator. I could not conceive the BBC approaching such calm, unbiased control. ALAN STACKMAN, Calne, Wilts.

NICOLA STURGEON says ‘no chief constable should be allowed to be a law unto himself’ (Mail). Neither should any First Minister nor SNP member. H. DUNLOP, Glasgow.

BRITAIN’S national bird? If Miliband wins the election, it will be the dodo (and please put me on the one-way rocket to Mars). STEVE LOVELACE, Wineham, Sussex.

IT’S a pity Jeremy Clarkson is the wrong gender or he would have been able to blame his meltdown on the menopause. If he were a screeching, plate-throwing woman, he would have been pardoned and cossetted. JILL NEALE, Bitterne, Hants.