Straight to the POINT

÷ AFTER the success of a comedian in the Ukrainian elections, how about David Jason’s Del Boy for Chancellor? No income tax, no VAT. NIGEL SWANN, Lymington, Hants.

÷ FORGET Harry Enfield for high office (Letters). We have a joker in Boris Johnson. JANET ENTWISTLE, Chelmsford, Essex.

÷ MAX PEMBERTON says: ‘Most employees want hugging and kissing banned in the workplace.’ Someone tell footballers. PETE WILLIAMS, Hayes, Middlesex.

÷ WAITING seven weeks for a GP appointment is not a record (Letters). I have just been granted the follow-up appointment after my operation in September 2016. J. SHORT, Weymouth, Dorset.

÷ CALL it a second referendum, people’s vote or confirmatory ballot — it all amounts to a shameful rebuttal of the democratically expressed will of the people. PATRICK BRANDON, Budleigh Salterton, Devon.

÷ I’M FED up of hearing ‘ backstop’, ‘moving forward’, ‘Brexit’ and ‘robust’. What’s wrong with ‘just get on with it’? SYLVIA SMITH, Walsall, W. Mids.

÷ JEREMY CORBYN making climate change legislation a plank in his manifesto shows he will latch on to anything to win the youth vote. JOHN COLLINS, Chelmsford, Essex.

÷ CATS have been blamed for the deaths of four billion birds. They should be praised for dispatching five times that number of rodents.

L. GADSBY, Truro, Cornwall.