Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admits Conservative election victory 'not likely'

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@neverdiminished 3 ай бұрын

I don’t remember conservatives worrying about super majorities in 2019.

@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn 3 ай бұрын

They got a large majority, not a super majority.

@rpb583 3 ай бұрын

Think of that supermajority of 80 seats plus 100, then it’s a 3 parliament mega-majority!

@pault1289 3 ай бұрын

It's just Conservative fear mongering. They haven't got anything positive to run on, so they complain that Labour might have too large a majority. Didn't hear them complaining about their large majorities in the past....

@keewng 3 ай бұрын

Jeremy Hunt should accept P45 is in the post to arrive on 5th July 2024

@simonfive713 3 ай бұрын

To the person who 'always votes Conservative' try watching the news

@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn 3 ай бұрын

Depends what news.

@tomcat2395 3 ай бұрын

My Tory MP has a majority of just 638 votes and I have seen no one canvassing for him not one single bit of election literature for the Conservatives. In my seat the party and the MP have just given up.

@matthewsemple 3 ай бұрын

Anyone with less than 10,000 is toast.

@tomcat2395 3 ай бұрын

@@matthewsemple But I am still amazed that I have not seen one leaflet, poster or anyone trying to get votes, not that would change my decision as I hate this lot

@matthewsemple 3 ай бұрын

@@tomcat2395 why waste the money on printing costs?

@janohara6995 3 ай бұрын

How can Jeremy Hunt cast doubts on Labour as high taxers, when his government has brought taxes higher than for 70 years while at the same time decimating public spending in adult social care, education, mental health, potholes... the list goes on in every sector!

@FlyingPhilUK 3 ай бұрын

'cos Labour's raison d'etre is to raise taxes! 🤔

@HudsonMayBeRight 3 ай бұрын

"You guys work for us and not the other way round" Jeremy Hunt 2024

@matthewsemple 3 ай бұрын

Immediately after the Truss/Kwasi disaster, Hunt is called in to try to fix the economy. Then blames Putin - you couldn't make it up!

@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527 3 ай бұрын

I think the tory hubris is amazing they have been so arrogant since 2019 they act like they don't deserve this loss

@stoobydootoo4098 3 ай бұрын

Thereis no such beast as a 'Super Majority' in UK politics. A 50 majority is no different to a 250 one.

@danishih 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I feel like I've been taking crazy pills the last few weeks

@matthewsemple 3 ай бұрын

A term borrowed from the US that has no meaning in the UK. Just Tories copying Trump rhetoric and fear-mongering.

@FullMetalAsh 3 ай бұрын

In principle perhaps, but in reality a small majority leaves the govt beholden to back benchers and rebels within their own party. Just look at how divided the Tories have been recently - they hold a decent majority but have had issues with discipline. You don't have that concern with a very large majority.

@anonUK 3 ай бұрын

There are always MPs getting into trouble, though- the 80-seat majority of 2019 came down to 45 or so before the election was called for various reasons, from the trivial (the wayward tractor fan) to the foulest crimes (Imran Ahmad Khan) and everything in between. Owen Patterson's wife killed herself because she knew what was coming down the road for her husband and Boris and JRM tried to forestall it, corruptly. If you have a 200 seat majority, though, what does it matter?

@hypsyzygy506 3 ай бұрын

@@FullMetalAsh With a huge majority potential rebels can find more like-minded colleagues to cause trouble.

@31Blaize 3 ай бұрын

The Chancellor admits that he's left the finances in a parlous state that haven't and won't fund public services in the short term (although you have to listen hard for it). His kids are right, it's embarrassing that he's the Chancellor.

@grannythebuilder395 3 ай бұрын

A large Labour majority for many years! Don't threaten us with what we want.

@latest3dsgames 3 ай бұрын

No one wants Labour at all

@systemofapown 3 ай бұрын

All the tory voters in the UK seemed to have fitted quite comfortably into this room.

@zacharyrichard2764 3 ай бұрын

11:00 lol at Hunt not wanting to take Liz Truss’ call

@nightwi5h959 3 ай бұрын

The funny thing is this would have been a leading news story on 99% of any other years....this time? Not even news.

@DavidBrown-ok1rf 3 ай бұрын

And his specialist subject,....................the bleedin' obvious!

@davesandall4530 3 ай бұрын

You can feel the desperate BS radiating off him..

@cobbler40 3 ай бұрын

Do any of them ponder why they are going to lose ?

@Under-Shepherd 3 ай бұрын

They think it's all the fault of the electorate 😂😂😂

@pault1289 3 ай бұрын

It doesn't really seem that self reflection is a popular activity in the Conservative Party.

@alanfrost4661 3 ай бұрын

My word he is clever isnt he

@geofo60 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, he's a legend in his own lunch box.

@alancoates4531 3 ай бұрын

Vote Labour get the Tories out.Taxes are a 70 year high.Hunt a liar.

@smunro1983 3 ай бұрын

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@johndean1634 3 ай бұрын

Today the Bank of England kept the Interest Rate at 5.25%. Even though Inflation has Dropped. There lies the problem with the UK. £126 Million Interest per day on the Government Debt. Thats whats called Looking after the Banks, Hedgemongers and Finacial System.

@pault1289 3 ай бұрын

As soon as Sunak called the election, the BoE wasn't going to change rates in case it was seen as a political move. Any changes will come after the election now.

@pennymcneela7095 3 ай бұрын

How can you vote for the unelected Conservatives ?.😢

@El_Paracleto 3 ай бұрын

They CONceded over two years ago...

@Kenleaty 3 ай бұрын

Acting like already lost. Mad.

@ChrystallaPsoma 3 ай бұрын

He speaks we,ll. He has give Britain a certain stability ty.perhapsmhe could have been a good pm

@Stabe1981 3 ай бұрын

Lib dems...there's no difference between them and labour. Ed Davey spent the campaign behaving like a bafoon. I'm also sick of an opinion poll every five minutes. Such a manipulation of the electoral system.

@Jon-hh3gz 3 ай бұрын

He doesn't like to boast himself does he 🙄🙄.

@daveedmondson9002 3 ай бұрын

How about legislation that limits the time between calling an election and polling day to four weeks or a month? This happened frequently in the 80s & I think would be very popular with most of the electorate.

@robicenco1701 3 ай бұрын

Four weeks is plenty. Six weeks is ridiculous.

@sujison2313 3 ай бұрын

Shame he can't be normal like this more of the time. Usually comes across like a malfunctioning droid.

@hollyjenkins1500 3 ай бұрын

Hear me out … move the House of Parliament to Leeds get away from the woke liberals in London the media come up north the conservatives would still have a majority Jeremy hunt sounds like a Labour chancellor

@dons9213 3 ай бұрын

What a blatant clickbait headline!

@skyliner467 3 ай бұрын

Tommy Robinson endorsed Reform 🇬🇧

@JasonEwing-x1q 3 ай бұрын

That makes sense he is a racist is he not ?

@tonupharry 3 ай бұрын

So did putin

@skyliner467 3 ай бұрын

@@tonupharry Nope

@skyliner467 3 ай бұрын

@@tonupharry Pro-putin channels hate reform, zero likes there

@danishih 3 ай бұрын

Tommy Robinson endorses a lot of other monsters besides Reform

@namrofni6236 3 ай бұрын

Rishi is so resilient. Everytime they knock him down he comes back stronger. On July 4th get ready for Rishi 2.0.

@31Blaize 3 ай бұрын

Would that be CaliRishi?

@namrofni6236 3 ай бұрын

@@31Blaize Rishifornia

@Jon-hh3gz 3 ай бұрын

He'll be ready on the backs of opposition 😆

@stephenhill545 3 ай бұрын

He certainly comes back for TV interviews, while other heads of state pay their respects to the hallowed fallen who lie in their graves around the beachheads.

@TheBonsaiGarden 3 ай бұрын

How about some self reflection about why they are so universally unpopular and staring into the abyss. People like Michael Gove, Grant Schapps, Jeremy Hunt have all been ministers for a number of years now. How do they account for how unpopular the party is under their stewardship? Jeremy Hunt said that high interest rates was a price worth paying. My mortgage payments have risen by £350 A MONTH in January this year. He will pay for that with his job.

@GeoffV-k1h 3 ай бұрын

Bye.

@ianrogerburton1670 3 ай бұрын

If they gave the Voters what they wanted instead of just taking them for fools whilst looking only after themselves, these selfish idiots wouldn´t be in this mess.

@smoozerish 3 ай бұрын

Get him out

@mrd64 3 ай бұрын

Whose doors do they knock on. Is it their friends like 30p Lee?

@ScruffyTubbles 3 ай бұрын

Is it correct that Jeremy's campaign is being paid for by backers of Liz Truss?

@tomasarcher4761 3 ай бұрын

Hunt indulges himself in talk of the expanding tech industry in London without understanding just how out of touch that sounds to the rest of the country... This great industry, which is providing a handful of jobs and undoubtedly improving our technological capabilities, is irrelevant because the rest of us are getting poorer and poorer. He just smacks of everything wrong with our political establishment, out of touch, out of time and incapable of understanding. Outside of the financial and technological districts of London, Britain is a deprived nation and the only people that have the power to change this is a tiny clique of Westminster elitists that just cannot see it.

@user-bu9nb8wr6e 3 ай бұрын

Yep the game is up and he must admit he doesn't know how he is going to live without the normal bungs that he's been taking for giving out health care contracts to private health care companies and the CEO at this meeting who have been very grateful for him not taxing them.