Straight to the POINT

■ THE silent majority (Letters)? No, we are the silenced majority.

R. MARSHALL, Sheffield.

■ ECHR: Every Chancer Has Rights.

R. J. DOE, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

■ GP PRACTICES, dentists and pharmacies in the hands of private companies — it’s mass privatisation of our NHS by the back door.

JOHN KIELY, Keynsham, Somerset.

■ FROM Partygate to adviser Geidt.

Name and address supplied.

■ CITED as the cause of weeds flourishing on the streets of Brighton, blaming Brexit for everything has become a growth industry.

M. SMITH, Chatham, Kent.

■ IF SCOTLAND were to become independent, there would be no SNP MPs at Westminister, increasing Boris’s majority.

COLIN COPCUTT, Towersey, Oxon.

■ IF A win rate of 62.2 per cent for the England football team is success, what is failure?

IAN GILLARD, Chelmsford, Essex.

■ I WAS enjoying the TV show about the Savoy until uncouth Gordon Ramsay appeared.

LIZA MOORE, Cambridge.

■ YES, Costco offers huge savings (Mail), but only to those with lots of storage.

DAVID THOMPSON-TRACE, Luton, Beds.

■ I’VE had a hilarious encounter with an innumerate sales assistant (Letters). I asked for half-a-dozen second-class stamps and the reply was: ‘How many is that?’

JULIA FALCUS, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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