Straight to the POINT

THE Ryanair fiasco has a simple solution: stop using the airline!

RONALD BALL, Farnborough, Hants.

WHICH airlines do Ryanair pilots use when they fly away on holiday?

TONY THOMPSON, Banbury, Oxon.

BACK-SEAT or front-seat driver, I don’t care, just as long as someone moves out of neutral and into a higher gear to get us out of the EU.

PAUL HARVEY, Wigan, Lancs.

A PEERAGE should be a sufficient honour in itself without the £300 per day payment to attend the House of Lords. Scrap this inducement and see how many turn up.

R. L. BULLOCK, Barnsley, S. Yorks.

IT’S time for presenters such as Melvyn Bragg, Esther Rantzen, John Humphrys and Mary Berry to be put out to grass to give younger talent a chance.

C. GUIREY, Ruislip, Middlesex.

IF GREAT Ormond Street Hospital is having problems recouping the cost of treating overseas patients, allow it access to the foreign aid budget.

CALVIN ELDER, Hornchurch, Essex.

BRITISH Gas customers would benefit more from lower prices than ‘rewards’.

GRAHAM WATKIN, Birmingham.

THE Brexit team should play hardball in discussions. If you give the EU 2.54 cm, they’ll take 1.61 km.

G. TOMLINSON, Seaham Harbour, Co Durham.

GREAT to see Strictly Come Dancing back — but what a shame Tess Daly comes with it.

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