Straight to the POINT

NEW brand name for Harry and Meghan: Sussex Disloyal.

M. LONGLEY, Tadworth, Surrey.

COME on, Boris, put your wellies on! Many of the people whose homes have been flooded are diehard Labour voters who voted for you.

JEAN WILSON, Bristol.

IF I had the misfortune to be flooded, the last thing I’d want would be a self-publicity visit from Boris interfering with relief efforts.

ROGER BACKHOUSE, York.

WHY would any building company knowingly build new homes on a floodplain?

IAN HARRINGTON, Axminster, Devon.

WHAT size of battery would be required to power an electric lorry or a F1 racing car?

G. R. WOOD, Fareham, Hants.

JUST seen John Bercow outside a bookshop shouting: ‘Order, order! Please, someone order my autobiography.’

GEORGE HATCHMAN, Cheshunt, Herts.

UNLIKE screechy Cilla, Dame Shirley Bassey made such a success of Big Spender (Mail) because she knows how to put a song over.

NEIL KENDALL, Blackpool, Lancs.

THE average tax-free expenses payment to peers in the House of Lords is £30,827. How unfair that I am taxed on my private and state pensions worth less than half that sum.

JAMES HORNE, Enfield, Middlesex.

÷ THE vanishing ‘t’ (Letters) has gone to the same place as the letter ‘h’.

JULIE GREEN, Burton upon Trent, Staffs.

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