READING the recent story regarding how several Welsh Government ministers travelled to France to watch Wales play in the European Championships made very grim reading.

Vaughan Gething cost us taxpayers £1,775 and Ken Skates cost us £1,606 for watching the Wales v Northern Ireland game. Mr Skates had earlier watched the Russia game but it seems this was also part of an official trip to a factory in Toulouse. This lot cost us more than £3,000.

And lo and behold not to be left out our very own first minister Carwyn Jones hired a private jet at a cost of nearly £10,000 to watch the England game.

Of course you have the spokesman for the Welsh Government trying to justify these trips saying they were guests of the FAW to show support to the Welsh team. Another spokesperson for Carwyn Jones stated that the plane was hired due to security risks.

Hang on a minute, only a few days ago Jeremy Corbyn was a passenger on a public train, so what’s so different about Carwyn Jones.

The total cost of these jollies is a disgrace, many thousands of supporters stayed home to watch our brilliant Welsh team due to the fact they couldn’t afford to go to France and use taxpayers’ money to pay for the trip.

Carwyn Jones with his £140,000 a year salary should pay for it himself, he is a disgrace to the Welsh people and he has crossed the line with this extravagance using taxpayers’ money.

This Welsh Government is starving councils of money, causing cuts to services, job losses, NHS is in dire straits, yet they can spend our money like confetti.

These ministers should hang their heads in shame and do the decent thing and resign. Shocking, disgusting politics in the gutter.

DJ Radford

Coleridge Crescent

Barry