The question posed by Andy Beckett (What if one key problem with British politics at the moment is us – the voters?, theguardian.com, 16 May) was answered with sharp irony by Bertolt Brecht in his poem Die Lösung (The Solution): “Would it not in that case / Be simpler for the government / To dissolve the people / And elect another?”
Derrick Cameron
Stoke-on-Trent
• Thames Water’s chair, Sir Adrian Montague, argues for bonuses up to 50% of senior managers’ salaries, because they are its “most precious resource” (Report, 15 May). Some of us would say that water is their most precious resource, and should not be in the hands of rule-breaking, profit-seeking entrepeneurs.
Susan Treagus
Manchester
• Thames Water’s executives want Ofwat to refrain from fining the company for its failings (Nils Pratley on finance, 13, May). Perhaps instead, the overpaid executives themselves should be issued with massive fines for their failings? It might just concentrate their minds a bit more.
Tony Green
Ipswich
• Our football-mad German step-grandson, aged seven, came to stay recently, travelling in one of his many souvenir shirts, a West Ham one. “Is someone forcing you to wear that?” asked the border official (Letters, 13 April).
Karen Adler
Nottingham
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