Grayling all at sea over ferry farce

■ The services of Seaborne Freight should only be required if Brexit ends with a no deal.

However, this ferry deal needs to be examined closely because Seaborne has no ships while the proposed port at Ramsgate has not been used since 2013 and has no modern customs or immigration services to handle a high volume of traffic.

Also, what would we have to pay to them in the way of cancellation fees should we get a Brexit deal? The whole phantom ferry deal certainly needs a formal inquiry before any public funds are committed.

Terry Marriott, Waterlooville, Hants

■ Could we have any more incompetent ministers than we have now? Contracts awarded to rail companies that hike fares so high people can’t afford to use them and a ferry company with no ferries winning a contract to keep goods moving after Brexit, just like the aircraft carrier with no aircraft.

We need leadership and politicians with a brain, not people who can’t even look at a good idea without messing it up. It’s time for a vote, not on Brexit but on a new Government.

Mary Pester, Saltash Cornwall

■ In reference to the latest debacle involving Seaborne Freight apparently copying its legal terms from a takeaway firm, you really couldn’t make this up (Mirror, January 4).

MPs need to step in and take control of Brexit from this bunch of incompetents, otherwise I fear for the future of this country.

Theresa Mayhem and her inept ministers couldn’t run a town hall raffle, so why the heck are they still in charge?

Ian Smith, Nuneaton, Warks

■ Whether you support Brexit or not, it is simply astounding that a ferry firm without any boats has been contracted by the Government to run extra services in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Yet Transport Secretary Chris Grayling defends the decision saying he is supporting a new British business.

Once again, failing Grayling is in charge of another debacle. How is he still in his job? Jerome Scott, Birmingham

■ Why shouldn’t Brexit be about supporting British start-up companies? I accept there are questions of competency about this decision, but I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt.

B Read, Doncaster

■ Whatever Chris Grayling says to justify this farce, surely something as big as this should be given to an established British company with boats and experience? This is making us look even more of a laughing stock than we were before – if that’s possible. Donna Carr via Facebook

■ Regarding this ridiculous ferry deal, I still have the two boats I made in woodwork at school. Can I have a Brexit ferry contract as well?

Mike Cobb, Stanford-leHope, Essex