Straight to the POINT

POLITICIANS should accept their sycophantic message of ‘tolerance and compassion’ is having no effect, but uncontrolled immigration and open borders are.

DOUGLAS WATHEN, salford Priors, Worcs.

WHAT will English pensioners, struggling on very modest incomes and deprived of their winter fuel allowance, think when they realise that Fred ‘The Shred’ Goodwin — on his £342,500 RBS pension — and other millionaires living in Scotland will still receive theirs?

ANDREW STEVENS, Chelmsford, essex.

WHENEVER the hated expression ‘means test’ crops up, panic ensues. Yet every one of us is subject to the biggest means test of all. It’s called income tax!

DONALD COLEMAN, eynsham, oxon.

WHY shouldn’t Mrs May change her mind about care costs? As Groucho Marx said: ‘Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.’

JOHN COLLINS, Chelmsford, essex.

THE Lib Dems want to sell cannabis over the counter? Should Farron or Corbyn take power, we might need it.

BOB WOODLAND, Poole, Dorset.

THIS year’s winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show would be more suited to the Turner Prize. In my opinion, it looks more like an abandoned inner-city car-park than a thing of beauty.

JANE GRUMMITT, Shavington, Cheshire.

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