Problem
Conservative Party MP Priti Patel apparent proposal that Britain should use the threat of food shortages in Ireland to secure a better Brexit deal from the EU is morally repugnant, unfitting of a public representative and harks back to 19th century failed british policy in ireland.

The MP's remarks are beyond offensive to the people of Ireland and to irish diaspora living today in her constituency, across Great Britain and throughout the world.



Solution
MP to issue a written apology to the people of Ireland

Personal story
MP Patels suggestion to threaten ireland with food shortages cannot go unchallenged. An apology must be issued.

An drochshaol will not be repeated!

The Irish People are expecting famine day by day... and they ascribe it unanimously, not so much to the rule of heaven as to the greedy and cruel policy of England. Be that right or wrong, that is their feeling. They believe that the season as they roll are but ministers of England's rapacity; that their starving children cannot sit down to their scanty meal but they see the harpy claw of England in their dish. They behold their own wretched food melting in rottenness off the face of the earth, and they see heavy-laden ships, freighted with the yellow corn their own hands have sown and reaped, spreading all sail for England; they see it and with every grain of that corn goes a heavy curse. Again the people believe—no matter whether truly or falsely— that if they should escape the hunger and the fever their lives are not safe from judges and juries. They do not look upon the law of the land as a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to those who do well; they scowl on it as an engine of foreign rule, ill-omened harbinger of doom.

John Mitchel