Another clueless Tory suggestion

So yet another senior Tory comes up with an unfeeling, ignorant suggestion to alleviate the effects of the cost-of-living crisis.

A Home Office minister recommends that struggling families should be “taking on more hours or moving to a better-paid job”. Does she think that hard-up mums and dads can make such a change easily? Does she imagine that this hasn’t been considered by financially distressed breadwinners?

Such dismissive advice comes on top of other ludicrous, disdainful Conservative suggestions including “eat cheaper food” and “improve your cooking and budgeting skills”.

Tory MPs would be well advised to keep their out-of-touch, patronising suggestions to themselves.

And let’s hope many of them will be looking for a new job themselves after the next election. Paul Methven, Winscombe Somerset

Rachel Maclean, the Tory Home Office Minister, was totally out of order when she suggested people who were struggling to survive in the present cost-of-living emergency should switch to better-paid jobs or work longer hours in their present employment.

It is such a condescending and offensive remark which reflects how much the Tories are out of touch, and how little respect or regard they have for the people who voted them into Government. How anyone with a conscience could vote for them at a future general election is beyond me.

M Smith, Chatham, Kent

We currently have a government who are like Martians from space – they have no idea how ordinary people are coping.

We had to stay indoors during Covid while they partied and we couldn’t say goodbye to loved ones. They even partied a day before the Queen sat alone at her husband’s funeral service.

Now they are saying we can make meals for less than a pound and we should work longer hours.

They are an arrogant party who are only in it for themselves.

Bernie, North London

I couldn’t believe the sheer nerve of Tory minister Rachel Maclean to say struggling working-class families in the UK should work longer hours or change jobs.

It shows just how out of touch this pampered, well-salaried woman is who can claim numerous perks. She has no idea of the plight of the ordinary UK worker on zero hours and a pittance of wages.

Neil Atherton, St Helens

This is exactly what you would expect from a Tory MP – just like Norman Tebbit when he told workers to get on their bikes.

These Tories haven’t done a proper day’s work in their lives.

They sit on their backsides after leaving university and drop into a privileged lifestyle without having to worry about pay rises as they get theirs’ automatically. Try doing a nurse’s job, then you’ll know what a real working day is like.

Tony Howard, Salford

Rachel Maclean, Tory MP, like Lee Anderson before her, appears to be following what seems like current government policy, expressing an opinion without engaging her brain. Well done to the Tory supporters in Redditch for electing someone who appears to have little or no compassion for the less well off in her constituency or the rest of the country.

Dennis Phillips, Droitwich Spa Worcestershire.

We don’t want Tory MPs telling us we don’t know how to cook or that we should work longer hours or find a better-paid job.

What we want is a Government that represents the people of this country, not just their rich friends.

After 12 years of Tory repression it’s more than time for a change, but if it doesn’t happen soon the country and especially the NHS will find it very hard to recover. Eddie Fidler, Wolvercote, Oxford