Straight to the POINT

÷ DON’T call them protesters — they’re thugs!

DAVID GORDON, Romiley, Cheshire. ÷ CLIVE MYRIE is a good choice for the new Mastermind question master. I’m just surprised Ant and Dec didn’t get the job.

TONY THOMPSON, Banbury, Oxon. ÷ THERE’S a lot of tartan in Scotland, but even more whitewash.

DAVID KIRKWOOD, Aspatria, Cumbria. ÷ RUSSIA has one million soldiers, the Chinese two million and the once great British Army is set to be reduced to 70,000. Should we be worried?

IAN HARRINGTON, Axminster, Devon. ÷ HOW much of the defence budget will be spent on redundancy payments for the 10,000 soldiers dumped on the scrapheap?

MAURICE O’BRIEN, Tilehurst, Berks. ÷ DESPITE all the doom, gloom and blame games, I’d like to thank the Government for keeping me alive.

CATHERINE BROWN, Helston, Cornwall. ÷ LET’S have one day a week when we all mow our lawns. The rest of the time we can lie on our sunbeds listening to birds chirping.

TONY HARVEY, Bangor, Co. Down. ÷ THERESA MAY has earned £1 million from after-dinner speeches since leaving No 10. How much would she have earned if she had something interesting to talk about?

M. BUSBY, Birchington, Kent. ÷ IT’S not just cash (Letters), cheques and paper bank statements also face being axed.

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