Straight to the POINT

÷ MOTHER of God! Boris, it’s time to call AC-12. Ted, Kate and Steve will soon sort out the leaking cesspit at No 10, and while they are at it they can have a go at the unelected resident at No 11.

TONY FRESHWATER, Fowey, Cornwall. ÷ IF BORIS did make the ‘let bodies pile high’ comment, to which bodies was he referring? The Covid-19 deaths or the tens of thousands who will die of untreated malignant diseases?

STEVE KELLETT, Penrith, Cumbria. ÷ CURRENT Whitehall releases prove that Sir Humphrey Appleby in TV’s Yes, Minister was right when he said: ‘The ship of state is the only one that leaks from the top.’

MALCOLM WOOTTON, Dursley, Gloucestershire. ÷ IT TAKES 20 minutes to send a signal to Mars, almost as long as it takes to get through to a British bank.

RODERICK ARCHER, Weybridge, surrey. ÷ SO STANDARD Life Aberdeen thinks that changing its name to Abrdn will help create ‘a modern, agile, digitally-enabled brand’. What a ld f bllcks!

KEN LOVATT, sheerness, Kent.

÷ REALLY, Boris, couldn’t you have gone to B&Q, got some brilliant white emulsion and a few rolls of anaglypta and done up 10 and 11 Downing Street? After all, you are living in an official British property.

JUDY ROLLINs, Walsall, West Midlands. ÷ ANY Covid passport should be called the ‘John Prescott’ to prove you’ve had two jabs.

GEORGE CLARK, Liverpool.

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