Straight to the POINT

WE SPENT £1 billion on each Royal Navy destroyer and £3 billion on the leaking aircraft carrier, but are being run ragged by Iranians in speedboats that cost pennies.

A. McGRATH, Wallingford, Oxon.

WE HAVE just 19 warships (we used to have 500) yet a staggering 34 admirals. A disgrace.

JOHN WRIGHT, Northampton.

FIONA BRUCE has ruined Question Time. Speakers can rant about so-called austerity at length, yet one Tory MP was interrupted almost before completing his first sentence.

PETER BIRCH, Belmont, Lancs.

OUR recent batch of Prime Ministers can surely be compared to Churchill — not Winston, but the TV insurance advert dog.

G.V.S. MANGHAM, Tutbury, Staffs.

MRS May wants to leave a legacy. As she curtailed police stop-and-search, I think it will be the appalling increase in knife crime.

MICHAEL O’NEILL, Atherton, Manchester.

NICOLA Sturgeon says she has ‘profound concerns about Johnson’. Believe me, Nicola, they are nothing compared to the enduring concerns I have about you and your abilities.

PHIL JOHNSON, Bishopton, Renfrewshire.

CORBYN says the Tories are no longer the party of the countryside. In the sense that Labour is no longer that of the working class?

PAUL BRAZIER, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos.

THE first U.S. astronaut was in space in 1961 — eight years later they landed on the Moon. In contrast, Crossrail isn’t working ten years on.

JOHN T. PHARRO, Canvey Island, Essex.

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