Straight to the POINT

JEREMY CORBYN says he’ll be the new Thatcher. I wouldn’t trust him on my roof.

RALPH BARTLE, Rotherham, S. Yorks.

SHOULD the Lib Dems be renamed The Reject Party?

JEAN SEARLE, Crowthorne, Berks.

WHEN a top criminologist hands over control of his computer to a stranger after an unsolicited phone call (Mail), I can understand why banks are reluctant to reimburse people who have been scammed.

NEIL MCPHERSON, Gillingham, Kent.

APART from the fact Greta Thunberg should be in school, not lecturing us on climate change, at least she lives by her convictions. I trust that next time Emma Thompson will go by boat to the Oscars.

SUE TURNER, Bewdley, Worcs.

A DEFENCE Secretary who’s been a serving Army Officer. What next: an impartial Speaker?

J. WALMSLEY, Bury, Gtr Manchester.

THE ten best gags at the Edinburgh Festival — that’s the Christmas cracker jokes sorted.

BRIAN SYKES, Sudbury, Suffolk.

SWEDE tells broccoli joke and wins best Edinburgh Festival gag prize. That’s funnier than the joke.

VINCENT HEFTER, Richmond, Surrey.

THERE is a shortage of the epilepsy drug Epilim (Mail). Forty years ago, when it was first prescribed for my son, the manufacturer was British. Now it comes from Poland and Russia. Nothing seems to be made here anymore.

J. NASH, Cheltenham, Glos.

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