AIBU to be really angry with Jeremy Hunt?

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Because he's defending Trump tweeting the vile Hopkins attacking Sadiq Khan? I mean, I knew he was a cunt but this is as low as it gets, right? WTF is he thinking? www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/17/jeremy-hunt-defends-trump-quoting-katie-hopkins-in-attack-on-sadiq-khan

He seems an awful man. Totally out of touch with real life, arrogant and full of self interest.

No-one IBU being angry with that tool.

Well, they don’t all call him a cunt for nothing. YANBU.

YANBU to be angry, but there's really no point.

He's a Tory, he has to blame Khan for knife crime in London to deflect attention from the massive cuts in policing his chums have inflicted. They've made crime worse everywhere, not just in London.

Yes, but siding with Trump over this is surely a new low even for him, and even for a Tory? I mean I'd expect it of Farage but this has shocked me. Even T May called Trump out on the Britain First stuff, right?

Trump was all over Hunt when he came over. Hunt is thick as fuck and dreadful.

It's disgusting. Those tweets were racist anti Islamic rubbish. Hunt needs to be called out on this.

He’s a total shit and very appropriately named.

YANBU. It's shocking that the far right has become so normalised that you get mainstream politicians approving the words of a grubby little Nazi wannabe like Hopkins (I don't use the word "Nazi" lightly but that's undoubtedly the fanbase she's playing to these days).

And it's ridiculous that, after all the noise we've made about self-determination, we're frantically groveling to a racist maniac because we want a trade deal.

Hunt spent his time as Health Secretary packaging up the NHS to sell to the US. Now he needs to become PM to complete the deal.

His support for the far right against against a democratically elected politician would’ve hopefully spelt the end of his career in normal circumstances but he’s playing to the 150k Tory party voting members, many of whom will agree with his Islamophobic outburst.

Javid surely must be feeling increasingly uncomfortable what with not being invited to the state dinner for being Muslim and now this?

His name rhymes for a reason. Because he is one. Also very unlikely the Tory party would elect someone they know everyonee litterally calls Jeremy Cunt. They'd be even more of a laughing stock.

Then again someone with the surname Dick is Police Commissioner 🤷

YANBU! The Conservative party seems to fallen irredeemably into the gutter.

Jeremy Hunt with a C

One of them, and I think it might have been Hunt, stuck up for Javid regarding the Trump snub in the Ch4 debate.

Doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing it to look good, but attacking Khan might be more about him being Labour than anything else.

Tories seem to hate Labour above all else in the world. All interactions are coloured by this. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything more than that.

I still hate Hunt. But not as much as Johnson.

It was Rory Stewart who stuck up for Javid, of all of them he’s the least pernicious so, of course, he hasn’t got a hope in hell.

I've never seen a more self centered arrogant bunch of elitist white men going for the same job.
It shows this country in the worst possible light.
My only hope is that the young people manage to shake this country up once their vote counts and the baby boomers who want to keep their comfortable lives start dying off... Brutal I know but we need the young to have pride and hope in their country, not the shambles they've seen the last few years.

Oi, I’m a boomer, we’re not all fascist bastards!

He wonders why people call him a cunt.

Hopkins comment was actively racist. Wtf was he thinking.

I'm a boomer too! And a radical feminist who wants to tear down the establishment, and I always have done!

The man has no shame. Blaming Khan for the rise of knife crime in London is pathetic when his government has been knowingly cutting Police numbers and resources for years, ignoring warnings from experts and senior Police officers. Not to mention the cuts the Youth Services, Social Care and Education which all have a massive knock on effect on these types of offences. But what do you expect from a man who, when he was health secretary, repeatedly tried to blame Doctors and Nurses for the failings of the NHS as he was systematically starving it of resources and making plans to sell it off piece by piece.
He's odious shit and I loathe him with a passion but is he worse than Boris Johnson?? I honestly don't know. Fucking hell, the whole situation is so depressing.

This is the same man who wants parliament to vote on lowering abortion limit to 12 weeks.

I was going to start this thread! Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly have less respect for the man he manages to sink even lower.

being the Mayor of London, has a duty to allow the police to tackle all crime, not let it slide because the perps are his mates

Who are "his mates" exactly?