Straight to the POINT

THROUGH that £60million hole-in-the-wall (Mail), how sad to see that tomb of dead wealth while so many people struggle to live.

SINIKKA TILBURY, Whitstable, Kent.

IF ERITREAN woman Wegasi Nebiat had £6,600 to pay the smuggling gang (Mail), why did she risk her life trying to cross the Med? Why not get a visa and buy an air ticket to Sweden? Mrs SANDRA WIDDOWSON, Marske by the Sea, N. Yorks.

IF THE Iraq War whitewash isn’t to be published until 2016 (Mail), there is a clear case for J. Heywood and J. Chilcot to be stripped of their knighthoods.

PHILIP TURNER, Stockport, Cheshire.

HOWEVER long the Chilcot farce drags on, it won’t change the fact that Blair and his cronies lied about alleged WMDs to drag Britain into a disastrous conflict which has put Iraq in a far worse state than when Saddam was in power.

K. BESZANT, Carshalton, Surrey.

HOW can we expect to reduce our £1.48trillion debt by borrowing £50billion to build a train no one actually wants?

MIKE RAWSON, Cheshunt, Herts.

HI OZ! Can we trade two of our PMs for one of yours?

G. HICKMAN, Keighley, W. Yorks.

I DOUBT readers are interested in Ian Brady’s General Election thoughts.

KIM MONCUR, Cumbernauld

THE most worrying aspect of the Lutfur Rahman vote-rigging affair is that 101 imams signed the letter saying it was un-Islamic not to vote for him.

TIM BURKE, Sheffield.

JUST a thought: after the election on May 7, will there be a new Lord Hallam, or will he turn it down on principle and miss out on £300 a day?

TONY WRAGG, Huddersfield.