Braying MPs give children a bad name

Rishi Sunak’s team must have stuck tacks in his shoes to stop him smiling in the photographs as he arrived in Downing Street. To show us how seriously he’s taking the really serious situation that his predecessor has put us in.

Someone should have told his backbenchers who were braying and bawling as normal when he arrived in the House of Commons. You would call it childish behaviour but if children were behaving like that they wouldn’t be allowed to for long. And if anyone else acted like that at their work they would be shown the door.

It is really pathetic. Don’t they understand the whole country is watching them behave like asses? Their carry-on is bad enough in normal times but right now it is only adding insult to injury. Jennifer Truesdale, Glasgow

Pensions protest

I must oppose Bob Duncan’s opinion (Your View, last week). In general, most people in the public sector receive a better pension than those in the private sector.

With reference to the letter from Jacquie Macintyre, women were warned of the increase in their state pension age in the 1990s but never complained then.

Why were women ever allowed to retire five years earlier than men in the first place? It should have been the other way round. Many men who worked in the mines and heavy industry never reached 65, my father included. Also women live longer than men.

Jane Webb, West Yorkshire Principled decision

I nearly fell off my seat when I heard a government minister had resigned over a point of principle. I didn’t think that happened any more so, whether she is right or wrong, well done Ash Regan for acting on her conscience. I wish there were more like her Kenneth Walker, by email

Repair stop?

I watched The Repair Shop with King Charles getting his old clock fixed.

I thought the woman from Scotland who had lost her husband was such a nice person but didn’t like the way presenter Jay Blades kept putting his hand on the King’s shoulder. It looked a bit familiar.

If he had tried that with some of Charles’s ancestors, he’d be in the Tower.

Georgian Wishart, by email

Steely resolve

I loved Oor Wullie and the Broons (Sunday Post last week) having joined up strips with the stuntman Steely MacNeilly ending up in hospital. It’s like when characters from one TV show pitch up in another. Amazing.

It made me remember my Evil Knievel toy stuntman so I looked on eBay for one. £300? I’ll stick with my memories. I preferred my football game Striker anyway.

J McIntyre, by email

Andy anyone?

Help! Can anyone remember a TV programme from years ago that had a song that went “I’m Andy McKay, I’m Sandy McKay” or something like that? It was a duet and I think Andy Stewart was involved.

Andy Guy, Anstruther