D-Day is well worth commemorating – but the leaders representing us today are a disgrace

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I find it disgusting that a prime minister whose government relies so heavily on arms sales is attending the D-Day memorial today. Likewise, the warmongering Trump with his refusal to criticise people who wear swastikas.

The same also goes for all the inept, incompetent Tory MPs who aren’t fit to lick the boots of the 90-plus-year-old people BBC Breakfast has been paying tribute to and interviewing.

This lot in parliament can’t even negotiate a withdrawal from the EU let alone summon the courage that was required to fight on those beaches.

Those who died must be turning in their graves at the state of this country now with this bunch of actual losers in power. Those people were so brave – these people? Not so much.

R Kimble
Leeds

Given the importance of the “Khaki vote” in the Labour landslide of 1945, it seems reasonable to assume that most of the D-Day heroes would have been left-of-centre politically.

How would they feel to see their sacrifice dishonoured by the red carpet being rolled out for a lying, cowardly bully like Trump?

Mike Wright
Nuneaton, Warwickshire

D-Day veterans

While watching the commemoration of the D-Day landings, I wondered how many veterans are still struggling with their lives.

I recently helped a couple who were involved in the war and miss out on £106.19 a week. We need a mass benefit take-up campaign, possibly targeted at that particular group first. Money may not make the world go around, but it blooming well helps.

If anyone in government is reading, please sort this injustice out.

Gary Martin
London E17

Change UK’s collapse

So, six MPs have split from Change UK just four months after the party was founded.

Amongst those who quit were interim leader Heidi Allen and party spokesperson Chuka Umunna.

The six said they would return to parliament as independent MPs. The move has left Change UK with less than half the MPs it once had, with just five politicians remaining.

Former Tory MP Anna Soubry has been announced as the new leader – I can’t possibly imagine why the other six have left.

Barbara MacArthur
Cardiff

Divisive British politics

British politics is now so indecisive and vague that whenever three politicians are gathered together you are likely to have at least four opinions; and it seems there has not been a single statement from anyone inside Westminster that has a validity of more than a few days.

We are at the point where some Brexiteers would probably now vote to Remain, some Remainers would vote to Leave, and some undecided would agree that a certain popular beer is probably not the best in the EU, let alone the world, and vote for leaving or remaining in the League of Nations depending on the day of the week.

Matt Minshall
Norfolk

No deal spells disaster

With all this Tory party hyperbole about leaving without a deal, perhaps we could stand back and recall what the electorate was told in the referendum debate.

The Leave Alliance, a group which campaigned vigorously to leave the EU, was quite clear in its webpage, “What’s wrong with the WTO Option?”, where it states: “One can say, unequivocally, that the UK could not survive as a trading nation by relying on the WTO Option. It would be an unmitigated disaster, and no responsible government should allow it. The option should be rejected.”

So there is certainly no electoral mandate for leaving without a deal.

John Harvey
Bristol

Tory party extinction

Boris Johnson has said that the Conservative party faces extinction if it fails to deliver Brexit in October. Many of us would agree with him on that point.

However, the effect on his party is highly likely to be catastrophic even if it does drag us out of Europe. The fear is that the rest of the country will suffer the same fate.

Susan Alexander
South Gloucestershire