Straight to the POINT

NICK CLEGG, Nicky Morgan and David Miliband say the referendum result did not hand Brexiteers a mandate to take the UK out of the EU on any terms. Yes, it did. DAVID BECK, Waterlooville, Hants.

FORK-TONGUED Cleggy, U-turn Morgan and sulky Miliband in a rice warehouse. What kind of idiot would curry favour with those three? S. WAKE, Sunderland.

WHEN people walk down the street staring at their mobile phones, why am I expected to get out of their way? TONY THOMPSON, Banbury, Oxon.

BALLOONS are part of the scourge of plastic. One released for my birthday 11 years ago lodged in a neighbour’s tree and the remnants are still flapping around. JOHN HATCHER, Cardiff.

I JUST know I will turn 26 the day before 25-year-olds get their £10,000. B. BOND, Cambridge.

IF WE feed children the portions served in Jamie Oliver’s restaurants, none will be obese. P. HARRISON, Leicester.

HOW dare New Look charge 30 per cent more for dresses in larger sizes that use a third more material! TERRY HICKMAN, Southampton, Hants.

THERE is no shortage of sparrows (Letters) in my garden, with 20 using the bird feeders. But where are the swallows? For the first time in 30 years, not one has arrived to build a nest. SUE DUCKWORTH, Tarporley, Cheshire.

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