Straight to the POINT

WHAT’S our response to the North Koreans’ new intercontinental missile? Stop them buying a Fortnum & Mason Christmas hamper. That will teach them.

C. NEWTON, Irthlingborough, Northants.

IF SHIRLEY BALLAS waltzes off Strictly, is there any chance she can take the irritating Tess Daly with her?

MICK POWELL, Kinver, Staffs.

AS A former civil servant, I’d be in serious trouble if I publicly disclosed the content of an MP’s computer, even if I found it distasteful.

HARRY McKAY, Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire.

MY HUSBAND asked Highways England why no workers could be seen on the smart motorway roadworks (Letters). It replied they were all working behind the embankments and so were invisible from the road.

SUE ROWLEY, Barnsley, S. Yorks.

I DON’T have much sympathy with cabbies (Letters) when the going rate for a taxi from Heathrow to Central London is up to £90.

SIMON LIVINGSTONE, Paddock Wood, Kent.

BLAIR and all the other Remainer MPs who call the Brexiteer electorate illiterate, stupid and ill-informed and not knowing what they were voting for forget that the same illiterate, stupid and ill-informed electorate voted them into Parliament.

JR MIZEN, Churchbridge, Cannock.

WATCH out for a catastrophic fall in the UK productivity index when Bath University vicechancellor Dame Glynis Breakwell retires.

R. McGAHAN, Sunderland.

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