Straight to the POINT

MANY long-serving, high-profile former MPs rejected by the electorate will be only too happy to end up in the House of Lords, getting £300 a day just for turning up.

MICHAEL BENNETT, Gidea Park, Essex.

NOW the ex-Shadow Chancellor, ex-Commons footballer and ex-MP for Morley and Outwood is a gentleman of leisure, perhaps he can pursue that elusive maths O-level.

CHRIS DAY, Crowthorne, Berks.

NIGEL FARAGE has a big decision to make: Big Brother or I’m A Celebrity?

TONY LAGO, Littlehampton, W. Sussex.

THE election result was a triumph for the politics of ambition over the politics of envy.

DONALD COLEMAN, Eynsham, Oxon.

HOW soon before we can expect to see a large slab of limestone with graffiti carved into it come up on eBay?

BRIAN LYNCH, Brentwood, Essex.

CAMERON must bring in legislation to redraft constituency borders. Clegg’s act of spite in vetoing this in the last Parliament cost the Lib Dems a lot. People haven’t forgotten his treachery.

RICHARD DAVIES, Heath Charnock, Lancs.

ALEX SALMOND says the ‘Scottish lion’ has roared. But there are no lions in Scotland, just the capercaillie, which makes a sort of croaking noise.

BOB LOMAS, Horsham, W. Sussex.

I BREATHLESSLY await Pippa Middleton’s book on How To Change A Baby’s Nappies, due any day now.

KAREN RENE, Leicester.

THE woman who parked in a disabled space without a blue badge was lucky to get just a rude note (Mail). Had she done the same in our local shoppers’ car park, she would have had a £70 fine and/or been towed away.

CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, Colkirk, Norfolk.