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Brecht’s answer to Beckett’s question | Brief letters

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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

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