#jeremy hunt

[anexperimentallife]

#uk politics #jeremy hunt

[theroyalsandi]

British Royal Family - The King has held an in-person audience with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt at Buckingham Palace. | March 05, 2024

#royaltyedit #theroyalsandi #charles iii #king charles iii #king charles iii of the united kingdom #jeremy hunt #british royal family #my edit

[dadsinsuits]

Jeremy Hunt

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[animanightmate]

So, just to summarise

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her Chancellor, replacing him with a man dragged back from political obscurity where he’d languished since his success in uniting the entirety of the NHS in their hatred of him. A man who is his own rhyming slang...

Then her Home Secretary fired off a series of increasingly bizarre and hateful tweets and other public statements, complaining about the police encouraging people to report transphobic hate crimes and [checks notes] how the “tofu-eating, Guardian-reading wokerati” are ruining the UK.

She then did something that broke security protocols and quit with the saltiest resignation letter I’ve seen in a while.

In the meantime, the Health Secretary talked about how she wanted to make antibiotics available over the counter and how she’s often shared “spare” antibiotics with friends. (Incidentally, this is a great way to encourage medically resistant bacteria – diabolical notion.)

Then the Chief Whip resigned. Then unresigned. Apparently. It’s all becoming a bit of a blur.

Then Liz Truss had a big shout in Parliament about how she’s not a quitter.

Then she quit less than 24 hours later.

This is all in the last week, by the way. It’s like a bloody soap opera.

In the meantime, among the potential runners for leader of the Conservative Party we get to include Boris Bloody Johnson who, let’s not forget, lost the confidence of his ministers and party, and still has criminal investigations pending for having partied, presumably using our tax money, while the rest of us stayed away from loved ones to keep them safe.

But it’s okay, because we Got Brexit Done. And Liz Truss, after 44 days in office, gets a £115,000 pension every year FOR LIFE for having been Prime Minister. All this while nurses can’t afford to heat their homes and have to rely on foodbanks to feed their families. Rank obscenity.

To summarise a bit further:

We are SO SCREWED. And a literal lettuce in a wig lasted longer than Liz Truss.

#politics #uk politics #liz truss #kwasi kwarteng #jeremy hunt #suella braverman #thérèse coffey #wendy morton #boris johnson #brexit #prime minister #oc #clownshow

[atopcat]

50% are people of colour

50% are women

50% are under 45

50% have a non upper class background

100% of them are ultra right wing bastards

Every single one of these candidates supported Priti Patel’s anti immigration laws.

They’re vocal in their transphobia, making it a main part of their platform.

A lot of them were part of BoJo’s cabinet, which oversaw hundreds of Britons having to choose between heating and food.

They attack those in poverty for relying on benefits but do nothing to stop the living crisis.

The Conservative Party’s leadership race is a brilliant example of how diversity quotas are meaningless if their politics are the all the same.

#Britain #uk politics #politics #rishi sunak #liz truss #tom tugendhat #kemi badenoch #penny mordaunt #Jeremy hunt #nadhim zahawi #suella braverman #boris johnson #conservative party #1k

[painless-innit-colourful]

Not gonna lie I feel so bad for the future history students that are going to have to study this period in British politics. We've had four chancellors in the past 4 months. Three PMs in a year. I'm this much of a nerd and I could not tell you who's in the cabinet right now, nor am I gonna learn since they'll all be different in a week anyway.

They're gonna have to learn so many names 🤭

#british politics #crim speaks #boris johnson #liz truss #rishi sunak #kwasi kwateng #sajid javid #jeremy hunt #thérèse coffey #jacob rees mogg #uk politics

[tweetingukpolitics]

“Niesr’s latest study starts with some welcome honesty, Brexit is not the only cause of the UK’s problems – it has just added to the woes of the credit crunch and numerous other issues. With a resultant slowing of growth (and productivity which the latest data shows is actually still getting worse) it has cost the UK sorely. British workers should be about 10% better off than we are.”

#the new european #political threads #conservative party #uk economy #jeremy hunt #uk news #uk politics #rishi sunak #brexit

[ceevee5]

Yes. Yes, they do.

#uk politics #rishi sunak #jeremy hunt #13 years of tory government so what should we expect? #that things aren’t falling apart?

[changing-my-username]

Jeremy Cunt: Jeremy (Corbyn) would have crashed the economy

#politics #uk politics #liz truss #jeremy hunt #jeremy corbyn

[outlanderalien]

Just another day in British Politics

#uk #politics #uk politics #liz truss #kwasi kwarteng #jeremy hunt

[eaglesnick]

“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”   — Confucius, Chinese teacher and philosopher

According to Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, his recent budget announcements will “eliminate low pay altogether". Speaking in Parliament last November he stated:

“People who get up early, put in the hours and work hard for their families deserve to be paid fairly” (Hunt: 22/11/23)

I couldn’t agree more. It is therefore such a pity that Hunt was being less than honest with us. According to The Resolution Foundation analysis of ONS data (reported in the Guardian. March 2nd 2024) after almost 14 years of Tory rule, average wages are still “below their 2008 peak".

In other words, despite inflation now falling and private sector wage rises being above inflation, the average worker in this country is no better off than they were over a decade a go. The Resolution Foundation has calculated that the 15 years of low wage growth under successive Tory governments has cost the average worker £10,700, the worst period of pay growth since the Napoleonic wars.

But who cares about the plight of the average UK worker or their families? :  certainly not Conservative governments. Under the Tories the tax burden for the average worker has rocketed, mainly through stealth taxes, and is set to reach the highest lever since the second world war.

But it’s not all bad news.

During the same time frame, emergency food parcels for the poor have risen from less than 100,000 in 2010 to over 3,000,000 a year. And while the poor queue for their food parcels, the rich are busy counting the massive increase in their personal wealth.

“Soaring levels of wealth across the UK, coupled with high levels of wealth inequality, mean that the wealth gap between the top and middle tenth of households in the UK has grown to a record £1.2 million per adult. ( Resolution Foundation: The UK's wealth gaps have grown over £1.2 million, 20/07/22)

So, when the Tories talk about an improving economy and tax cuts for ordinary working families, just remember what the stark economic reality is for the millions of workers “who get up early, put in the hours and work hard for their families”: stagnant wages and a society with ever increasing inequalities between those that work to improve the country’s wealth and and those who benefit from that work.

#uk politics #jeremy hunt #rishi sunak #inequality #rich #poor #taxes

[asexualdindjarin]

I know I'm childish but there is still no greater joy than when someone slips up and calls him Jeremy Cunt

#uk politics #jeremy hunt

[bottlesandbarricades]

This budget reversal is fucking bonkers. This government has done nothing, but flip flop from day one and now whether we get the help we need with energy bills is uncertain.

Liz Truss is unfit to govern. The Tories are unfit to govern. I am not being dramatic when I say this will cost actual lives. We cannot carry on with unelected cunts implementing policies we didn't vote for.

We need a fucking general election and we need it now.

#uk politics #british politics #liz truss #fuck the tories #the tories #tory britain #jeremy hunt #the conservative party #tories #ukpol #cost of living crisis

[dadsinsuits]

Jeremy Hunt

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[scavengedluxury]

#jeremy hunt #happy mondays #if gove had said this I wouldn't have been surprised

[damnesdelamer]

This was aired two days ago lmao

This was followed by a couple jokes from Dara Ó Briain about how the future of Tory leadership ‘literally could be anything’, punctuated superbly (even more so than intended) by Hugh Dennis observing ‘it is a sort of irony that we’ve been cancelled but we’re still likely to survive longer than Liz Truss’.

Our satire pales in comparison to our political reality for sheer absurdity.

#original #Mock The Week #Liz Truss #Truss #Tory crisis #Dara Ó Briain #Jeremy Hunt