Straight to the POINT

■ GIVE them bread and broadband.

RONALD DEVINE, Hoe, Norfolk.

■ THE Labour manifesto is an invitation for trade union barons to run the country, bringing havoc and misery.

J. WILSON, Rotherham, S. Yorks.

■ THE first duty of a Government is the defence of the realm. Is there any mention of this in the Labour manifesto?

NICK HAINES, West Butterwick, Lincs.

■ LABOUR proves it’s very easy to spend other people’s money.

D. A. WATSON, Devizes, Wilts.

■ A MANIFESTO ‘for real change’: national bankruptcy and mass unemployment.

PETER RICKABY, Selby, N. Yorks.

■ WHY has Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs been dumbed down, with guests only choosing pop music?

D. ARNOLD, Carterton, Oxon.

■ THE report about Lisa Wilson’s late son’s donation of his organs, which saved so many lives, has inspired me to sign up to be a donor.

CHESNEY ORME, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

■ COLDPLAY? More like Boreplay.

JOHN EVANS, Wokingham, Berks.

■ RAISED in rural Somerset, a charming country phrase (Mail) I often heard as dusk approached was: ‘It’s getting dumpsy.’

STUART MILLER, Swanley, Kent.

■ HILARIOUS subtitle in Victoria Derbyshire’s show: a lack of chippies instead of GPs!

TERRY HICKMAN, Southampton.

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