To think Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor is good

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I mean how bad has it got that Jeremy appears rational, decent and competent. I never imagined in all my years that I'd be pleased he had been given an important job, but now he seems acceptable.
How has the situation in politics become so dire that JH seems like a good choice?

He was the only person stupid enough to want the job....

He’s the worst of both worlds. No policy or integrity.

I almost (almost) feel sorry for her. As a person. Imagine being under this much very public pressure and getting everything so very wrong.
As a politician she is making me incandescent. The only moral thing to do now is to call a snap general election. Anything else is grotesque. Politicians are means to serve the people. All she and the conservatives are doing by not putting the governance of this country to the vote is serving themselves and Im appalled by it.

Presumably she saw Sunak as too much of a competitor (rather than keeping your enemies closer)? And he didn't want to step up to be lumbered with the poisoned chalice of being Chancellor of an economy with serious issues?

I didn't see Jeremy Hunt coming (metaphorically that is). I also vaguely recall him being pro-lockdown which slightly concerns me.

My cousin worked directly with JH - absolutely vile man, she was bullied to the point she left through stress

NHS worker here, tbh he talked a lot of sense in the pandemic. If we have to have a tory chancellor then it could be worse.

I don't feel sorry for her in the slightest. I maybe do for her daughters.

He want just pro pro lockdown. He wanted the lockdowns to continue indefinitely. And this is the guy now in charge of the economy. Even worse than Sunak.

Yes the pro lockdown position wasn’t great. At least Sunak has admitted mistakes re going too far.

Maybe Sunak is holding out for after Truss goes, if she does.

Doesn't really matter how decisive she thinks she is. It's the quality of her decisions that's the problem not her confidence in them.

I'm confident her decisions are shit.

AIBU To think Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor is good for The Labour Party

Nope. YADNBU

Soon to be coined in rhyming slang "He's a right Jeremy "

@IamSamantha - But she hasn’t even been decisive! it’s all of the dithering and u-turning that’s helped to cause market unrest!

It’s like piles vs diverticulitis.

Timeline

Liz Truss appoints Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor. She allowed his to issue a ‘mini - budget’ without the usual independent OBR forecasts (a government watchdog) that reassure the markets and investors that things have been costed and are workable.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/20/kwasi-kwarteng-urged-to-allow-release-of-obr-forecasts-with-mini-budget

The markets crash and the pound plummets. Liz Truss does feck all.
www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/23/pound-falls-to-37-year-low-against-dollar-as-mini-budget-puts-markets-in-spin
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/-uninvestable-uk-market-lost-300-billion-in-truss-first-month

This has a real impact on everyone from their pensions and the cost of any products made overseas to mortgage offers being withdrawn.
www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/mortgages-withdrawn-housing-market-mini-budget-lenders-economic-uncertainty

The Bank of England has to step in to try and steady the pound as Liz Truss does feck all
www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/28/what-bank-of-england-doing-pound-dollar-uk-economy-interest-rates-bonds
www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/mark-carney-accuses-truss-government-of-undermining-bank-of-england-governor-financial-crisis-pound

Liz Truss u-turns on scrapping the 45% tax rate
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/03/liz-truss-abandon-plan-scrap-45p-top-rate-income-tax-tory-revolt-kwasi-kwarteng-chancellor

Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses the BBC of bias and says the budget isn’t the main reason for the economic turmoil. Liz Truss does feck all.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jacob-ress-mogg-bbc-bias-row-mishal-husain_uk_6346733ce4b0e376dc0748da

Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng and scraps the planned cut to corporation tax
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/14/liz-truss-to-raise-corporation-tax-in-another-humiliating-u-turn

Cannot stand the man.

No, I am not pleased.

Another disaster lined up.

Out of interest though, who the fuck would you bite for in a GE, Starmers gone to ground, no one else standing up? It's a shit show.

The only question is now how much the Tory party lose the next election by. Seriously. They have lost, but if they don't even try to address the problems this country has in the next two years, they will be decimated for a generation.

at least it’s someone I’ve heard of.

not a good thing given his history though

They budget they just released might as well have been subtitled ‘Fuck the Poor.’ I think they deserve to be out of power for a decade or more.

Yes but we’re you in the NHS when he was in charge of it? What did you think of how he looked after the NHS then?

"Competent"................really???!!!!! That is the last word I would use about him

I was really worried for a bit that it would be.

It shows just how far the Tory party has fallen that they are trying to wheel out Jeremy Hunt as someone who is going to help them improve in the polls....

Probably would have been if she hadn’t said we need an election