Boris Johnson

• WELL, well, well.

Do we laugh or cry about the bleating of Tim Martin (the boss of Wetherspoons) about the post-Brexit shortage of labour for the hospitality trade and he being an arch-Brexiteer.

We have heard much about police helicopter noise in recent weeks. We may wonder if these choppers are not ferrying emergency workers for staffing Tim Martin’s ’Spoons and other restaurants.

Can I ask if readers could imagine themselves in a classroom with a question based on Tim Martin’s complaint about staff shortages, asking those in the room to put their hands up if they couldn’t see this coming a mile away? Or, in short, something very obvious?

A somewhat sadder aspect of this is the growing shortage of staff in care homes and or the National Health Service.

Some the shortages may yet be answered by the loss of jobs due to coronavirus Covid-19, forcing Brits to take up work carrying low pay plus low esteem.

Not that it seems that that seeker after truth, Boris Johnson, has really had too much interest is British workers and their conditions.

Witness what is shown by his government’s total inaction to the fire and rehire policy of many of our leading employers (surprise, surprise).

A reality also arising out of the Brexit vote is just what is meant by getting “our own laws” back.

It relates closely to what is stated at the end of the previous paragraph; but this surely is only to be expected from a right-wing government.

We are told a major factor the Brexit vote went the way it did was because Jeremy Corbyn, with a long history of being anti- the European Union, suddenly underwent a Damascene conversion that was not believed.

This does much to explain the Labour Party’s half-hearted efforts during the campaign. The man who was evidently believed is the truth-seeker mentioned already.

It baffles me why the Labour Party this week were seeking £30million per week for the NHS when our prime minister had promised £350million a week would come the way of the NHS as a result of the United Kingdom leaving the EU. Any of that happened yet?

This, of course, was a promise from the leader of a party that has further promised “to level up” the country after four decades of neglect.

The answer to these 40 years of neglect is apparently to vote for more MPs from the party that has governed for more years in those years of neglect than any other over those four decades.

HARRY BOURNE, SW1