The “did he or didn’t he” over what Jeremy Corbyn actually mouthed at the PM in PMQs (‘Oh no he didn’t…’ Corbyn denies calling PM a ‘stupid woman’, 20 December) reminds me of the “fuddle duddle” that Pierre Trudeau claimed he mouthed at his opponents in the Canadian House of Commons on 16 February 1971 instead of what many observed to be far more Anglo-Saxon language. Two pop songs emerged from that incident, including Do the Fuddle Duddle, from a band opportunistically named the House of Commons.
John Marriott
North Hykeham, Lincolnshire
• On Wednesday, I watched as a long queue of people waited outside a church in Hartlepool for a hot meal. Earlier there had been stories of families without the means to provide even the simplest Christmas because of the disastrous problems in implementing universal credit. And then in question time, our prime minister was playing the pantomime dame, urged on by hysterical supporters! This was dismissed by the leader of the house as “parliamentary banter”! What have we come to?
Merle Davies
Amersham, Buckinghamshire
• If Theresa May had called Jeremy Corbyn “a silly man”, would that have been a problem?
Elisabeth Leedham-Green
Cambridge
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