As an overseas elector I have been “strongly recommended” by my electoral registration office not to apply for a postal vote, but to apply for a proxy vote instead. This is because ballot papers are not due to be scheduled until 3 December – just nine days before the election. So there is a fair chance your vote may be held up in the pre-Christmas postal rush and fail to arrive in time to be counted. This might not only affect overseas postal voters (of which there were 285,000 in 2017), but some UK postal voters too. Honestly, you’d think this government didn’t want people to vote – especially remainers living overseas. Let’s disappoint them.
Harry Scott
Coutras, France
• I live in an SNP/Lib Dem marginal. Is there any value for me in spending time listening to a debate between the leaders of the third and fourth parties in this constituency?
Celia Armitage
Cupar Muir, Fife
• For many years, the Tories have argued that tax cuts actually increase the tax yield. I am puzzled, therefore, how they can now say that a postponed tax cut can help fund anything (Johnson pledges U-turn on corporation tax to fund money for public services, 19 November).
Peter Bayliss
Worcester
• “Were this dry-stone wall a compass needle,” writes your country diarist (15 November), “it would run south-east, north-west.” Really? Around here, compass needles run north-south. What’s going on in Rutland?
Jean Rogers
Durham
• If the Friday G2 series ever ranks the 10 worst leisure pursuits, I imagine a rave at a disused Carpetright warehouse in a Strood retail park would take some beating (Report, 18 November).
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
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