Straight to the POINT

÷VODAFONE is blaming its bad service on ‘leaves on the line’ (Mail). Wasn’t that someone else’s excuse?

CHRIS THOMPSON, address supplied. ÷ THE BBC’s response to David Cameron’s speech on Islamist extremists was typically negative. This news channel is incapable of balanced reporting and doesn’t seem to care for the harm it does to its reputation.

ROGER FOWNES, Bromsgrove, Worcs. ÷ FOR Rupert Murdoch, I suppose a knighthood is now out of the question.

JAMES M. HUGHES, Sittingbourne, Kent. ÷ THAT £7,000 rise for greedy MPs makes my £4 a week pension rise look very silly.

JOHN SLAMAKER, Staines-on-Thames. ÷ WILL the proposed salary increase for MPs also be postponed until 2020?

CLAUDE CURREY, Portishead, Somerset. ÷ THE European Financial Stability Mechanism is to lend Greece €7 billion to enable that benighted country to repay €4.2 billion to the European Central Bank. This is almost as funny as the Abbott and Costello comedy ‘give me two tens for a five’ routine.

DONALD COLEMAN, Eynsham, Oxon. ÷ JEREMY CORBYN is a socialist — which is what the Labour Party is supposed to be. If you want ‘watered down’ socialism, vote Liberal (and look what that’s done in the last two elections).

ALAN LOWE, Northwich, Cheshire. ÷I’M ALL in favour of a 20 per cent sugar tax (Mail). Why not start with Sir Alan?

WILLIAM HUDDY, Clitheroe. ÷ RENAMING the Seven Sisters cliffs (Mail) The Crumbles might educate people to stay clear of the edge.

CHRISTOPHER BERRY-DEE, Southsea, Hants.