Insensitive and crass

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a few days ago, said in the House of Commons: “We have got our fish back; they are now British fish, and they are better and happier for it.”

These comments are not only idiotic and wrong, they are not even funny.

He has ignored or is ignorant of recent feelings in the fishing industry.

When people are losing their lives and their livelihoods because of Government mistakes over Brexit and Covid, senior Tory ministers are making crass and insensitive comments.

A year ago, this month, Matt Hancock said: “the risk to the UK public is low.”

Six months ago, Boris Johnson promised us a “world-beating test and trace system”.

Companies are profiting from contracts to supply inadequate PPE, unreliable virus tests and

“disgraceful” food parcels for hungry children.

On Christmas morning, there were four thousand lorries stuck on Manston airfield and two thousand lorries on the Kent roads.

Michael Gove was unapologetic.

It is shameful.

We are at the mercy of Tory politicians like Johnson, Hancock,

Gove, Rees-Mogg and others who are not capable of running our country but they are certainly ruining us.

The sickening part of this, is that they who make idiotic comments are still being supported by servile sections of the press, Tory MPs, complicit by their silence, and those decent Conservative voters taken in “hook, line and sinker”, believing that British fish are happier and better off with Brexit.

John A Lennox, Sunderland.