Rees-Mogg typifies Tories’ insensitivity

■ AFTER reading about Jacob ReesMogg’s comments on Grenfell on LBC radio, I’m livid with the disrespect shown by this arrogant and insensitive man who has since issued an apology (Mirror, Nov 6).

Surely, if the voters in North East Somerset need a reason why ReesMogg should be given the boot then this is it.

The fault for the Grenfell disaster lies with the Tory-controlled council neglecting their duty to keep the building safe and allowing it to be covered with cheap cladding unsuitable for tower blocks.

Also, that Bullingdon blackguard Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is accountable for the cuts he made to the London Fire Brigade when he was Mayor. Get these awful people out of office on December 12 by voting Labour!

Paul Lawlor, Gloucester

■ It was the Tory doctrine of the unfettered free market pursuing profit above all other considerations which paved the way for the Grenfell Tower fire and 72 deaths.

Yet Jacob Rees-Mogg blames the victims of the fire rather than the Tory policies which caused it. He sums up the essence of Toryism – a merciless doctrine, without conscience, without compassion, without empathy and with absolute contempt for working-class people. Shame on Jacob ReesMogg and shame on the Tories.

■ Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg said in an LBC radio discussion about the disaster that the “common sense” reaction would be to flee a fire. Surely, it would have been “common sense” to prevent it from happening in the first place?

Residents had raised concerns about the many problems there but the authorities did nothing about it.

They are still doing nothing about many other buildings, just like Grenfell, after all this time.

Trev Fairminer, Loughborough, Leics

■ It seems to me that Jacob Rees-Mogg was suggesting in his abhorrent remarks about Grenfell Tower that the residents were intellectually inferior to someone

like him who was privately educated.

Noel Beresford, Chesterfield, Derbys

■ Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn’t know what he is talking about. If residents in a tower block fire were to ignore fire brigade policy and evacuate on their own they could risk choking, crushing or poisoning, while “staying put” could save them.

Mr Rees-Mogg’s remarks show how little top politicians have thought about the problem – and two-and-a-half years after Grenfell there is still no plan B for tower block residents.

Eddy Hunt, Tonypandy Rhondda Cynon Taf

■ Jacob Rees-Mogg is a nasty, over-privileged MP without a clue about real life. This is not the first snide remark he has made about the general public. He should resign.

Ian Toase, Goole

East Yorks

■ Call me a cynic, but I believe Rees-Mogg has only apologised because of the upcoming election. Tories don’t do apologies otherwise.

Pam Booth Wallasey Merseyside