Don’t take us all for mugs, Coffey

LET them eat turnips!

Every time I think this cesspit of a government couldn’t sink any lower, they add a few weights to the side and dive further into the abyss.

This week, faced with a question about foodbanks running short of supplies, Thérèse “Calamity” Coffey remarked that hungry people should think about working more hours.

This is from a minister who banks more than £145k a year and has a seemingly endless entitlement of holidays.

On a roll, she also said that we should forget about mass shortages of veg in our supermarkets and instead tuck into British-grown turnips!

In a strong field, Coffey is fast emerging as the most inept Tory minister in years. Honestly, turnips? The last one I remember ever seeing was back in the days England boss Graham Taylor had his face plonked on one.

Meanwhile, just hours later, Coffey and her filthy-rich Tory pals piled into the Savoy for the Conservatives’ Winter Ball. No food shortages that night. Or any turnip served.

While the rest of us scrambled for a tomato or cucumber for a salad, Tory MPs wolfed down lavish dishes as loaded benefactors bid thousands for items including an image of Rishi Sunak made of crystals, and a shooting party, which went for £40,000.

Britain has a problem with poverty but it’s not because of a lack of hard workers. We have a problem because of the greed of corporations enabled by the bloodsucking MPs elected supposedly to help us.

Our wages are being drained from us by rising food costs, extortionate energy and fuel costs and rocketing mortgages.

At the same time energy companies, supermarkets and banks are recording record profits.

We’re being mugged in broad daylight. Yet people aren’t protesting outside Parliament, or Tescos, or the homes of billionaire fuel company CEOs. They’re outside immigration centres, or demonising people who feel they were born as the wrong gender.

The flames of this hate are being fanned by those at the top of the Government as they fill their faces and pockets. They eat like pigs but tell the rest of us to eat turnips.

Let’s tell them once and for all to stick them where the sun don’t shine.