NOBODY can help but feel sorry for people in the South affected by gales and floods.

I am sure that some people in the Government are doing what they can to help.

However, Labour’s special envoy on climate change Barry Gardiner flew to Mexico last week as a guest of Bharat Shah, a multi-millionaire in the pharmacutical industry.

The photo of him and his wife strolling in the warm sea in Cancun could not be further from wading through cold, dirty water for yourself, when trying to understand what it’s like to be flooded out.

I cannot wait to read what he has come up with while there.

The cost of this “working week”

is £3,650 but it will be met by Mr Shah.

Well, at least that’s one problem Mr Gardiner won’t have to worry about.

Joan McTigue, Middlesbrough.