Straight to the POINT

DO TODAY’S fashionable ladies not realise that wearing Puffa jackets (Mail) makes them look like well-lagged hot water tanks?

MARTIN HOOK, Ashford, Kent.

AGAIN we hear the fiction that the Tory party and David Cameron created the Brexit issue. Not so — the tensions had long been simmering and even in mainland Europe, we see the so-called ‘good Europeans’ questioning the direction of travel for the EU.

JIM MURRAY, Edinburgh.

WHEN Theresa May pulls us out of the EU single market, she should leave the bosses of UK companies to negotiate their own trade deals with EU companies.

JOHN LOWARCH, Oswestry, Shropshire.

THE detail in TV’s brilliant Endeavour (Mail) was marred by the fact that the Wagner LP Morse was listening to on his Dansette-style record player was set at 45rpm rather than 33rpm.

STEVE WHEELER, Benfleet, Essex.

PROF Helen Stokes-Lampard of the Royal College of Surgeons says the NHS is the envy of the world (Letters). I notice no other country has copied it.

ERIC WATERS, Lancing, W. Sussex.

MY OLD gardening jeans are a bit ripped at the knees, but my 13-year-old granddaughter, with similar rips in her designer jeans, laughs at me when I say I’m a dedicated follower of fashion.

ALAN PAXTON, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

EU LEADERS are perturbed by President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that Nato might be ‘obsolete’ (Mail). Are these the same EU leaders who want a European Army to rival Nato?

GORDON SCOTT, Dunstable, Beds.

RESIDENTS who moaned about evacuating their homes over flooding threats should be grateful the authorities warned them. The authorities can’t win, can they?

COLIN GRIMMER, Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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