'From Farage to fortune - a reader’s bold forecast for 2026' - Your Letters plus a well earned cuppa for Les in a 1964 picture from the archive

​My predictions for year to come

These are my predictions/calculations for 2026:

Nigel Farage will be out of politics by the end of the year due to more revelations and the public suddenly realising that he is nothing more than a salesman in politicians' claims.

Keir Starmer will be gone as he will still be as featureless as a ventriloquist's dummy. Got goo you gay about that gear. He will be replaced by Shabana Mahmood who is a very clever and tough cookie. She will get illegal immigrant numbers down considerably.

Ed Davey will abseil down some tall building.

Kemi Badenoch will eventually be absorbed into Reform following most of her colleagues just as Reform implodes due to too many crooks, sorry cooks fighting over the gravy train.

Buoyed on by winning £2.50 on the lottery and £5 on the Age UK lottery I will finish the two books I was writing before Brexit and on the back of this I will become famous and people will start listening to me.

Roger Watts, Midlands

Help RNIB with your stamps

We’re well into festive period, and I imagine readers have begun to see stacks of Christmas cards land on their doorstep, full of festive wishes from friends and family.

These messages inside cards mean a lot to us this time of year, but here at RNIB we’re just as interested in what can be found on the envelopes they arrive in.

That’s because we can take used stamps and use them to raise funds, allowing us to carry on our vital work in support of blind and partially sighted people in Wales.

Whether your readers have one stamp or a hundred, by sending them to us they’ll be helping to make a real difference heading into 2026.We can also make use of foreign stamps, old postcards and expired and foreign currency.

Just visit rnib.org.uk/stamps, where you can get pre-paid collection envelopes or boxes for your stamps or email us at [email protected] or call 0330 002 0051. Wishing you and all your readers a very merry Christmas and New Year.

Ansley Workman, RNIB 

Clock watching

The Office of Budget Responsibility released its figures on the Budget before the Chancellor started talking and some might see a conspiracy. Maybe someone at the OBR just forgot to put all their clocks back an hour at the end of British Summer Time?

Peter Steggles, Rushbury

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