THE image on the front of The National (17 July) depicting Theresa May as a puppet, over the caption “Who’s in charge?”, surely contains an error. The picture of Donald J Trump as the puppet-master looks uncannily like that other arch-xenophobe, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.
Peter Swain
Dunbar
THE lunatics have finally taken over the asylum. Government is a misnomer. This shower of self-serving, lying, thieving, cheating muppets should be evicted from Westminster before they can do any further harm to the country!
John Swapp
via Facebok
HOW can the PM even contemplate sending MPs on holiday a week early, when the most important time-critical negotiations on Brexit are falling apart? This is no way to govern. Time for a General Election, time for a change.
Iain Lancastle
via Facebook
MAY transmoggrified.
Richard Easson
Dornoch
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