Hunt is the latest out-of-touch politician

The individual who has given the largest ever donation to party funds said that when he saw MP Diane Abbott on TV “he wanted to hate all black women” and that “she should be shot”. He has now insisted that what he said “has nothing to do with her gender or the colour of her skin”.

Rishi Sunak took hours to decide to criticise this statement and has no intention, at present, of giving back this tainted money. So the

‘best of the new’ includes condemning outrageously racist and misogynist language, not because it represents a shattering immorality, but only because of media pressure. Ethical leadership or the baseness of the ‘worst of the new’?

So we have the worst of the old and of the new. Can anyone believe there’s no need for change?

WHY is it that so-called on-top-oftheir-job politicians don’t seem to have a clue about what goes on in the real world?

The latest out-of-touch comment comes from Jeremy Hunt who says that £100,000 a year is not a good salary in the south east.

Thus at a stroke he has alienated the 86% of people who live elsewhere and whose average salary can’t be much more than £35,000.

Mind you, after watching England’s performance against Brazil, I couldn’t choose one player worth the up-to-£3.6 million a year they are paid.

I played with much more determination as a kid with a tennis ball under the street lights.

Nobby Stiles’ performance in the 1966 World Cup came close to my performance as a kid. He was everywhere, running, challenging and worth every penny of his Manchester United signing-on wage – 3.5 shillings a week plus £1 in a brown envelope. When my son worked as a prison guard in the south east he can’t have earned much more than £35,000.

It’s quite clear that Jeremy Hunt is not worth the £159,000 a year plus perks he gets paid.

If you wanted to watch England players earn every bit of their salary, then the England versus Italy women’s rugby match showed real value for money.