I READ with amusement that a cat is to be employed to chase rats from Downing Street and around Westminster.

This animal will be fully employed, as there will be many types of rodents to be found in these areas: 1. Rats – self-explanatory; 2. Mice – people who are afraid of their own shadow; 3. Moles – who will spill the spill the beans for a ‘consideration’; 4. Shrews – not many of these, because you would have to be ‘shrewd’.

Don’t vote – it only encourages them!

PHIL WALL, Greens Road, Eynsham