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?

It is coming to something when the merely stupid and incompetent is better than actively insane. I am not a Tory but surely there must be smarter people there then these?

Does Jeremy Hunt know what a woman is?

Who would Labour proposed as chancellor?

He wasn’t sure of his wife’s nationality so…….

@waffless you are aware of the existence of the Shadow cabinet?

Suggests he may not know whether or not his wife is a woman.
Best bring back Boris.

I am aware yes. Someone was saying we need someone talented and charismatic. I saw an interview with shadow chancellor R R and she was not coming across as having much idea either. Anyway, I do not like JH either. Let’s hope the markets calm down and people do not loose their houses. It really is not fun living here anymore. We are leaving but what a depressive few years we have had.

Reeves is a former Bank of England economist. She’s got more idea than all four Tory chancellors - so far this year - put together.

You've lost me. You know who the shadow chancellor is, but don't know who Labour would have as Chancellor.

Are you similarly confused as to who Labour would have as Prime Minister?

If Sir Kneeler got in he wouldn’t have the faintest idea what to do at the moment. Except not to do a Corbin. The best Labour can hope for is that things stabilise a bit in the next two years for when t hey get in. Pity the opportunity was lost. The Truss Government did not do the damage: it merely rushed blindly forward on to the trip-wire set for it by the Blob.

I ❤️RR.

She’d make a good Labour leader.

Bloody hell, we’re in the middle of the biggest political and economic crisis since Suez and we’ve still got eejits wanging on about “Corbin” and “the Blob”. 🙄

@Blossomtoes I really like Boris, he was my kind of guy and at least he knows what a woman is.

’Someone was saying we need someone talented and charismatic’

We really don’t. We need someone who knows what the hell they’re doing. Looking for charisma gave us Boris, sound bites and fury signifying nothing.

Let’s raise the bar and look for attention to detail, leadership that takes to into account the advice of experts on a subject and practicality over ideology.

’I really like Boris, he was my kind of guy and at least he knows what a woman is‘

In the sense that he kept impregnating them, yes.

Suggests he may not know whether or not his wife is a woman.

He knows his wife is a woman. I know his wife.

It baffles me when people complain about this. Leaving aside political beliefs for a moment (i.e whether the politician is a socialist or a free market libertarian or whatever), the fact that so many of our leaders have been to Oxford is something to celebrate. We live in a country whose leaders are educated at one of the greatest universities in the world. The university Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Richard Dawkins, Aldous Huxley, W. H Auden, T. S Eliot and countless other brilliant people attended. Thank god!! What would you prefer? Some ignorant egomaniac businessman like Trump, who has never read a book?

My first thought when I heard the news was that he is a safe pair of hands.
He actually did a pretty good job with the NHS, given that we all know the NHS is long past it's sell by date and needs to be funded by some sort of insurance system, not be a bottomless pit for taxpayers' money.

T S Eliot wasn’t over enamoured with Oxford. Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls [...] Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."

Of course we could have a chancellor who went to Oxford and is a professional economist. Her name is Rachel Reeves.

We're doomed.

Can only second HRH... dear oh dear.

Time to resurrect #IminworkJeremy (are you)?

Okaayy!!
Can former polytechnics not produce well-read non-ignorant politicians then?

Given the recent crop of Oxford-grad politicians only highlights that having an Oxford education and being a good politician is, perhaps, vastly overrated (aside all the connections made from the elitist cronyism, that is!)

Hardly representative of salt of the earth folk though!

I agree OP. He is reasonably intelligent and pragmatic, not another ideological nutter. Let's hope he brings some sanity to the situation.

Well if people want the Government not to be at the mercy of markets then the first step is the fix the balance of payment deficit. If a Government is reliant on borrowing large amounts of external funds to balance its books then obviously you end up with markets making Government policy. Did Brexiteers not think this through, despite their protestations that they knew what they were doing?!? I am shocked. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

The obvious thing to do - given that Brexit quadrupled it!! - would be to rejoin the single market as soon as possible and focus our economic plans on increasing exports and removing trade barriers with our biggest and most immediate trading partners...

Sunak refused to serve in her Government when she first took office. He knew it would be the trussterfuck it is.