Hunt out of touch?

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£100k is 'not a huge salary'. Fair comment. Yanbu

Does this show Hunt and the tories are out of touch. Yabu

Being debated on JV. apparently the average salary in his constituency in £40k.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgdly318jeo

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/mar/24/despite-what-jeremy-hunt-thinks-high-income-salary

Scotland have lower salaries so press found it very out of touch

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24205175.anger-jeremy-hunt-says-100-000-not-huge-salary/

I’m on the fence. It’s a good salary but in Surrey it isn’t huge compared to others. Especially taking cost of housing in the south. If household income is 100k and you’ve got a mortgage and commuting costs and bringing up kids it probably feels stretched.

if you’re 23yo living In Middlesbrough with no commitments it’s a huge salary.

I've similar view, naturally if you have a mortgage it could swallow up lots of it.

Apparently though the average salary in Hunt's area is £40k so much higher than average.

Depends on outgoings, mortgage, childcare, cars, etc.

Apparently though the average salary in Hunt's area is £40k so much higher than average.

But isn’t the average house price there something like £700k? What’s a mortgage on a £40k salary going to get you?

Anyone who is struggling on 100k is welcome to swap with someone on 20k in the same constituency and see what struggling really is.

If a person is on that amount of money and not managing, they have overextended themselves or, at best, lost a source of income perhaps and not planned for such an eventuality.

I think he’s correct, for Surrey it’s not particularly high, even with average being £40k. I live in a similar area and £100k salaries are pretty common, and lots of households with two working people have a joint income of more than £100k. I wouldn’t say it was very high for my area.

Hunt: £100k is not a huge salary.

Hunt: We're raising the National Minimum Wage to a massive £11.44 an hour from April...

I’m no JH fan but on the fence with this. Is it a good salary? Yes. Is it huge? Not really.
house prices in surrey are astronomical and it wasn’t the caller’s fault that presumably her mortgage payments (and everything else) have skyrocketed. However in the context of the cost of living crisis both the caller and JH need to give their heads a bit of a wobble.

the tories are generally out of touch. This doesn’t change anything. Andrea Leadsom touched a nerve with me the other day when she said that due to inflation coming down “it means that the cost of living crisis is over”. Prices are still rising you numpty. And def not coming down anytime soon.

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It is a lot above average.

The uncomfortable truth is it doesn't go as far as people might imagine, due to tax, mortgages and childcare costs.

And our household income, not just one salary, is no where near that. But I can see how it might disappear in the the South East.

There are usually tonnes of people champing at the bit to label a Tory out of touch. But I don't think he is here. £100k is an excellent salary, but £100k in 2024 is not the £100k of even 5 years ago. A household with a single earner of £100k is not getting child benefit or help with nursery, they're paying 40% tax and NI conts. Interest rates and property prices on top of what I've mentioned means that £100k is not proper out there rich.

Like I said on a similarly themed thread a few weeks back, if I a finite limited amount of fucks to give, they'd be reserved for those with disabilities that are not able to work, and live in poverty. But adults in the room are capable of holding more than one thought in their head, in that moderately high earners do not feel comfortable, and hard work and endeavor isn't delivering the results it should. That's no comment or insult on others in a worse position.

Unlike a politician to have his cake and eat it.....

Precisely!

I live in Northern Ireland and 100k would be considered a massive salary. I'm a civil servant in lower management and don't even get paid £30k gross so yeah, to me, it's huge.

I agree whole heartedly with this statement, how on earth so MPs think people manage on 20k perhaps these are the thing's they should be looking at as opposed to someone who is on 100k.

Good point.

Perhaps since he thinks £100k isn't a lot he could increase minimum salary to half of 'not a lot'.

The thing is people who make less than 100k still have the same housing costs, nursery bills and high COL. Those things are universal. And yes people who make NMW will be entitled to help (though probably not enough) but there are many more people on more average salaries not entitled to much with the same bills.

And those on less than average have much less room to cut back or make changes to save money. They've had to live on less than the 100k+ salaries are complaining about now for a long time.

100k is a very large salary no matter what way you look at it. But at the same time I can understand it probably doesn't feel like you'd expect a 100k salary to feel. I make 3x what I made 10 years ago (less than 100k), and back then if I imaged my life on a salary like this I'd have assumed I was rolling in it and saving thousands a month and never checking my balance before buying something or worrying about a bill but its just not like that and I don't even have nursery fees.

But as Hunt is a massive cunt I don't really think he has any idea what's actually going on for real people.

The fundamental problem is, of course, that house prices have rocketed compared to salary inflation, and ridiculous mortgate multipliers are (for good reason) a thing of the past.

100k gets you a mortgage of what, maybe 300k? I think in most parts of the country that probably doesn't get you a house suitable for a family of 4.

Maybe Jeremy Cunt Hunt can remind us how many houses have been built under the tories in the last 14 years.

The swapping of the 'H' with a 'C' in the Chancellor's name is just hilarious folks. Never heard that one before....

It might not be 'huge' in the SW but it's a bit of a tone deaf comment, considering the income levels of most normals.

I think it comes down to semantics. If you asked Hunt if it was a good salary he’d probably say yes. There’s a difference between good and huge.