We voted Remain in 1975, and Leave in 2016. I say we make it best of three

Just a thought. In 1975 we voted to remain. In 2016 we voted to leave. We definitely need to make it a best of three.

David Rose
Sutton Coldfield

Jacqueline King complains that Remainers are treating those who support Brexit as six-year-olds. There is a simple solution – stop behaving like children who think they are entitled to all the prizes on Sports Day and instead come up with some practical solutions to the mess we are now in.

Kathleen Judith Reid
South Yorkshire

It is really scraping the barrel of spurious arithmetic for Andrew Prentis (Letters, 26 October) to argue that the referendum result would be very different now simply because under-24-year-olds tended to vote to remain and have been joined by those who were 16 and 17 in 2016, while more over-80-year-olds voted to leave and many of these have died since 2016.

Even if one accepts the crude relationship between age and voting intention, he completely ignores the fact that EVERYONE is two years older now. Many of the 2016 under-24s are now over 24, while the number of over-80s has been swollen by many who were 78-79 in 2016. The logic of his argument suggests that, as the size of each age cohort will not have changed significantly since 2016, the result would not change significantly either.

Michael Clarke
Portishead

Chris Blackhurst’s article on the Persimmon bonus debacle highlights the problem with the greed and sense of entitlement of the heads of so many large enterprises.

Bearing in mind that he is already well paid, getting more per year than most workers earn in a lifetime, CEO Jeff Fairburn could have renounced three-quarters of his bonus, keeping a measly £25m to himself, and offered to divide the remaining £50m between the buyers of the approximately 15,000 homes built by the group that year.

They would have been reimbursed a very welcome £3,333 each, and he would have then been seen as a hero rather than pariah. Others may have felt inclined to act similarly and some real benefit could have occurred.

Sadly, hoping for such wisdom in today’s greedy and market-driven world is a lost cause.

Mike Margetts
Kilsby

An article about a boy dying from hypothermia after missing a bus may not be the only case if our situation in Ely regarding the buses is not changed. The local bus provider has, in principle, changed our service from a one-hourly to a two-hourly service.

At Market Street in Ely, where many of the buses stop, there is only minimal shelter and with the possibility of our elderly having to wait two hours in mid-winter if one of the buses does not turn up (which has been known to happen) serious effects on their health are inevitable.

It is time the bus companies thought of their passengers rather than their purses.

Rosemary Westwell​
Ely, Cambridgeshire

Regarding the wonderful women protesting against fracking in their local area. I for one will be slightly more convinced that the operation is harmless when Cuadrilla opens a site in leafy Berkshire or even, dare one imagine it, in Hyde Park.

Mike Flisher
Northumberland

If Sir Philip Green “categorically and wholly denies” the allegations, why did he reportedly spend £500,000 trying to keep them secret?

Paul Sheldon
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