What Will They Think of Next...?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph by Iain Hollingshead

Author:Iain Hollingshead
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aurum
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

JUNCKER’S HEROICS

SIR – It’s a little disappointing if the worst the sceptics can find to say about Jean-Claude Juncker, the potential President of the European Commission, is that he has cognac for breakfast. If true, it is a foible which would have endeared him to Dr Johnson, who wrote: ‘Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.’

Charles Keen

Duntisbourne Rouse, Gloucestershire

SIR – The good news about the appointment of Juncker is that he seems well qualified to organise a booze-up in a brewery – one task, among many, that has eluded the Commission since its inception.

Richard Endacott

Reading, Berkshire

SIR – Is any information available on the travel plans of Crown Prince Jean-Claude Juncker this coming Saturday, 28 June 2014?

Paul Gregory

Berlin, Germany

SIR – Walking up the High Street in Newport, Shropshire, one Saturday morning in 1941 with friends from a nearby school, we saw a lorry loaded with the remains of a German Junker 88 bomber. We could not resist helping ourselves to a small souvenir.

Should I offer the broken fragment of a Junker’s fuselage to the Prime Minister to brighten the Cabinet Room table?

Sydney Preston

Sevenoaks, Kent

SIR – Although I hate to admit it, I have to side with EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker when he says David Cameron has no common sense. Cameron may have had an Eton education, but he has zilch up top. No way would I trust him on the battlefield. He would be a disaster.

Lt Col Dale Hemming-Tayler (retd)

Edith Weston, Rutland

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