Boris’s biggest task: fixing the social care crisis

THE Prime Minister has promised to fix the crisis in social care once and for all, to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve. But there have been no details on how this will be accomplished.

Obtaining high-quality social care that is affordable for both the country and the individual is a tall order. But it is vital that Boris Johnson engages with the funding crisis and finds the workable, pragmatic solutions that appear to have eluded his predecessors. DOMINIC TRAVERS,

Portsmouth, Hants.

I SUPPORT the Mail’s dementia care petition, but don’t forget those with other progressive debilitating illnesses.

My two sisters have multiple sclerosis and one is distraught that she has had to sell her home and use her limited savings to pay for her care.

TINA BAILEY, Rugeley, Staffs.

Silent on cash claims

WILL there be any mention, one wonders, at the SNP conference of shameless Nationalist politicians charging those of us who pay taxes with their underwear and shoe bills? I doubt it. Nor do I expect grotesque taxi bills to be mentioned or debated.

The wonder is that even mesmerised SNP voters can keep hearing these things, one scandal after another, whether within or without the rules, and yet not raise a whimper of protest.

It will certainly all come home to roost at some point.

ALEXANDER MCKAY, Edinburgh. AS Nicola Sturgeon, after five years of rhetoric, persists in failing to deliver Indyref 2, let alone independence, surely the appropriate SNP conference slogan for hardline separatists such as MP Angus MacNeil is ‘Get Scexit done’?

MARTIN REDFERN, Edinburgh.

Brexit? Get on with it!

MY FUTURE mother paid a shilling to buy her Gold Issue Daily Mail, which gave a concise account of the Treaty of Versailles signed on June 28, 1919. I have kept this framed paper and, though it has lost its gold edges, its down-to-earth clarity and informed editorial could have been written yesterday.

In the seven and a half months between the Armistice and the Treaty, heads of state, diplomats, politicians and their staff from around the globe gathered.

World maps were redrawn, nations reimbursed, wrongs righted and legalities sweated out before the Treaty was signed.

What would Mum have thought of today’s politics? I can imagine her making this pithy comment: ‘If nations in the shadow of war, without modern communication, but just pen, paper and telegraph, could come up with a complicated agreement in double-quick time, why can’t 28 countries in peacetime, with every modern advantage, agree on the Irish backstop?’

I can’t wait to frame my copy of the Daily Mail with the front-page headline: ‘Brexit done!’

Name supplied, Crowborough, E. Sussex.

Will of the people

SO OUR hardworking MPs need Parliament to sit on a Saturday for them to discuss Brexit.

Three and a half years wasted trying to frustrate the will of the people and now they are getting ready to deliver the coup de grace and kill off Brexit. And to show how serious they are, they don’t mind working overtime to do it.

GEORGE MANN, Nottingham. MAY I point out to reader Andrew Milroy (Letters) that millions of ordinary people like me, who are not currency speculators and have no offshore riches, voted for Brexit to rid ourselves of an undemocratic, unelected protection racket.

Does he not realise that if Parliament achieves its goal of cancelling Brexit, this would be a serious affront to democracy? NIGEL THOMPSON,

Rossendale, Lancs.

Out of action

I AGREE that there was too much studio debate broadcast during the World Athletics Championships at the expense of showing sporting action (Letters).

This is prevalent in many TV shows. During Britain’s Got Talent and Strictly Come Dancing, all too often the camera focuses on the judges or audience gasping at what’s happening on stage, rather than showing it to the viewers.

Instead of constantly switching between angles and shots, there should be a camera fixed on the stage so we can share the experience of the studio audience.

DEREK EGAN, Birmingham.

Speak up for men

POLITICAL correctness does, indeed, give great support to women’s rights but little, if any, for those of men (Letters). Chauvinist is too often defined as men who dislike women when, in fact, it is a gender neutral word that equally may be applied to feminists. A supporter of men’s rights is, believe it or not, a manist. BOBBY MEYNELL, Stockton-on-Tees,

Co. Durham.

THE equivalent word for misogynist (Letters) is misandrist. I know this because I work with lots of women! IAN RUFFELL, Bournemouth, Dorset.

I’D place bets on misogynists far outnumbering their female counterparts. Women have more sense. ELIZABETH HUTCHINGS, Littlehampton, W. Sussex.

Sky-high flight taxes

WHAT planet is Peter Goodman (Letters) on? My family, including two grandchildren, live in Auckland, approximately 11,000 miles away. Peter’s advocating a maximum of 1,000 miles air travel a year with a passenger air tax for every extra 100 miles means the cost would be astronomical.

BILL RIDDOCH, Forres, Moray.

Disgraceful response

I WONDER if Mr Trump’s young family agrees with his disgraceful decision on driving on the wrong side of the road? B ROURKE, Giffnock,

Renfrewshire.