LBC callers debate ex-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

[@jestasmagic]

"Let me answer that as HONESTLY as I CAN" - the phrase used by someone who is about to lie. The caller's comeback was spot on!

[@Xerus35]

The caller had no idea what he was talking about. Even if you think the rich are in it for themselves (which is totally fine to think), the rich want the country to be a prosperous as possible because it benefits them more. So the idea that the rich want to destroy the country is ridiculous. If they wanted everyone to be poor then why don't all he rich do business in the poorest areas of Africa. Why do the richest want to be in the richest countries.

[@mikawarner-wright6180]

This isn’t quite as simple as you make it sound. The rich want to be in countries with the biggest economies… those economies they want however to be weighted heavily in their own favour, by removing safe guards and legal protections for their workers. This allows them to save money through a variety of ways such as investment or wages. They do this by influencing senior politicians through ‘donations’ - bribes or promises of wealth or status in other ways. People are incredibly simple to understand a lot of the time, traditionally we become more conservative as we accumulate resource and wealth to protect our own asset, but as the older generations have accumulated less and become less prosperous, they’ve become less conservative, that’s because in part the share of wealth throughout the country has decreased and GDP has continued to grown. The top 1% continue to hold so much influence and sway over everyone else. Then you get people like Mr hunt who campaigned for staying in the EU and now depends Brexit as that’s the way that keeps him senior in his political party. But also someone who isn’t so supportive of his party and their own ideology and beliefs that he would campaign for them at the last general election instead he fought exclusively as the chancellor for his own seat a deeply selfish move. A man unprepared to support his party unless it benefits his person.

[@euricofrade6728]

@@Xerus35 The damage is done and their dosh is in their pockets, or invested anywhere else but the UK. So, what are you talking about?

[@margaretalice6343]

I agree with another comment ‘I’ll answer as honestly as I can’. Hunt is about to be economic with the truth 🤦‍♀️It’s like the phrase ‘ with all due respect’ you know a person is about to be cruel & disrespectful

[@tonybrett5209]

Typical Tory 'not our fault '

[@chatham43]

@tony Covid was certainly there fault! Unbelievable!

[@Goggins12347]

That’s just politicians, I don’t think I’ve heard Starmer answer a single question in PMQ’s that didn’t contain the tories left us a £22bn black hole

[@boringmonkey6958]

Yeeeaahhh because Labour definitely aren't the same, are they? Wake up!

[@boringmonkey6958]

​@@Varley-k1nyou realise the Labour Party (you know, the ones who are in power right now?) wanted Lockdowns to go on for even longer, right? Or is this a space where we all bury our heads in the sand?

[@Ngamer834]

Typical politician I would say they all do it

[@paulmclaughlin7150]

I think LBC should have a rule: if they are going to have politicians as guest presenters then have a fact checker alongside them. Hunt is gaslighting…

[@drbennyboombatz9195]

Yeah especially with that "we should use interest burdened borrowings from the future to fund that thing across the way" where the guy is nothing like hit per and certainly nothing like ww2, I have to write in code to not get it remortgaged, this place is centered all the time and my stuff gets taken off

[@ibexdnb2879]

James O'Brien gaslights everyday..

[@EloiseB2025]

Absolutely! Is this the Tory jobcentre now? How many Lib Dems also guest present? Green Party?

[@raeyadmasu1590]

James O’Brien does that all the time but you wouldnt have noticed it because you are his victim 😂

[@henryburton6529]

He think Billionaires have our best interests at heart?!?!? That sentence alone should disqualify him from ever taking office.

[@chatham43]

@henry So you know what he thinks? Impressive.😊

[@dubhippiehollie]

@chatham, he said as much within the first three minutes.

[@henryburton6529]

@@chatham43 no, I know what he said because I listened with my ears

[@julian987r4]

And you think the Liebour front bench have our interests at heart? They categorically despise the country they are elected to govern.

[@Xerus35]

How do billionaires make money if everyone is poor.

[@paulwalker797]

An embarrassing middle manager, in way out of his depth. The fact that the class system and the old boy network delivers these well schooled incompetents into our public life is a catastrophe for the country.

[@AndrewWarren-bv2vu]

spot on

[@Badger220455]

Still can't accept that Brexit has been a disaster.

[@chatham43]

Could have been worse. Could have been a success!😊

[@davidblight7502]

Don't forget Brexit Mr Hunt.

[@voodoochile333]

Reclaiming our independence?

[@voodoochile333]

Have you seen the video?

[@HarkyOfficial]

They don’t mention that word.

[@julian987r4]

You need to forget it and move on

[@stevewatkinson4593]

Why is LBC still giving these tories air time? Crazy. Country needs to move on and not talk about the disastrous last 14 years, something that the Labour government will struggle to put right🫣

[@voodoochile333]

Probably because most of the western world's politics are moving to the right.

[@chatham43]

@steve And the disastrous lockdown. We should move on and focus on woeful Labour. Totally agree!

[@dianeglanville]

totally agree with you

[@stevewatkinson4593]

@ Tories left such a mess Labour will struggle with this one. Labour are calling the shots that the Tories with no backbone wouldn’t touch.

[@voodoochile333]

@stevewatkinson4593 what like? -£300 pensioners fuel credit ? Targeting farmers, nonsense climate aims, reducing Britain into recession?

[@hlspicer4257]

You and your pals did alright!! Not 99% of the country 🤬

[@Dynasty1818]

You're beyond help if you think 99% of the country is struggling.

[@markherzog9484]

We are 4% poorer from having left the EU……and that compounds year on year, add to that the huge costs that businesses are bearing now to deal with the admin when trading with the EU. £billions of unnecessary expense that could be invested in the U.K. economy.

[@MelanieG3467]

I can't believe how naive Jeremy Hunt is. To think that you can recruit a bunch of unelected billionaires to give advice on government. They are billionaires because they've been ruthless. They are interested in their own affairs and nothing else.

[@EloiseB2025]

He's not naive he knows exactly what he is doing. He just thinks the electorate are naive.

[@guymankowski3358]

Too arrogant and stubborn personally and too out of touch due to his privilege. He'll never learn. Hunt's father caused a naval disaster and was also over promoted. When will we stop as a country being bowled over by their air of arrogance and give these types excess power to hurt us with?

[@lestrem11]

Yes let’s give Reeves a chance……oh dear.🤡🤦‍♂

[@EloiseB2025]

When people stop tugging their forelocks at such people.

[@insubordinationfilms]

What was LBC thinking putting Jeremy Hunt in that chair?? Ridiculous. Brexit???? Mini Budget?????

[@czgibson3086]

0:45 Does he really think the 2008 financial crash happened within the last 14 years? Shouldn't ex-chancellors have a better grasp on numbers than that?

[@chatham43]

@cz But the covid lockdown did..or had you conveniently forgotten. Surely not!

[@cup1966wow]

To be fair the recovery from 2008 crash took years in the west as a whole. So it is fair that first few years were affected by it. However, its not an excuse for later, as they couldn't get us out of it. Unfortunately, I don't know why Europe has been unable to recover from 2008. If you look at EU GDP was matching USA pre 2008 but now is significantly less. I honestly have no idea why Europe just has no ability to recover.

[@importantjohn]

The impact of the financial crisis happened in the decade after 2008, not just in 2008

[@guymankowski3358]

Why this endless insatiable appetite for cuts for others by a man who's been lavished with money throughout his life?

[@tonybrett5209]

Well said John. Hunt left traps for Labour

[@joskowal3711]

I feel like this hasn't been touched on enough. £20bn employee's NI cut in the run up to the election which Labour then had to put onto employers, devastating the short term economy.

[@lestrem11]

Hardly …..the IFS warned Labour for months before the GE that their policies were unaffordable. Do some research, child.

[@joskowal3711]

@@lestrem11 I'd reciprocate but it's more half-baked adults than children that mindlessly repeat talking points they hear back at people even when they're irrelevant. What does the election campaign have to do with this? Labour had to find the money and they weren't willing to put it on households.

[@EloiseB2025]

​@joskowal3711 exactly my point. They just keep regurgitating what they've read on twitter or heard on gbnews. Very little fact checking goes on.

[@mjl2904]

He quotes the global shocks but conveniently left out the 10 years the tories were in government before that. Anyone criticising Labour after 6 months need to ask what was the Tories doing for 10 years before the global shocks Hunt mentioned.

[@ChrisKeziahHyde]

He belongs in a jail cell not on a major broadcaster.

[@wiseget-f7e]

With Blair, Brown and skidmark Starmer

[@TomMorrissey-f6d]

If he had his. We would not have a NHS the tories would have sold it off we would all need. Health insurance they love the American system

[@Human_Herbivore]

It grew faster for a brief period having shrunk more. He blames everything but the actions of the tories. When asked if he was gaslighting, he denied it and went on to a list, so gaslit most people couldn't afford the gas now.

[@ovo_ant6450]

A weasel even after the bitter end. Zero shame.

[@robertcreighton4635]

These tories have no shame. Zero

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@ffsytube Yep, and just remember the expenses scandal of 2009 when labour was in power last!

[@robertcreighton4635]

@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt if it was a story about Labour I would have complained about them. But it's about the tories so I stayed on that and didn't drift. Stay on point

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@@robertcreighton4635 The majority of British people voted to leave the EU and they don't owe you any apology or compensation so you might as well give up this idea of having a dualistic society over a vote that was had and stop being so precious.

[@Mattwilkes666]

⁠@@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mtthe majority of the country didn’t vote for brexit in 2016. leave got 17,410,710 million votes out of a population of 65.61 million people. That is not a majority of people in anyway shape or form.

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@@Mattwilkes666 Silence the denotes consent and if you didn't vote then you can't complain.

[@wurzel77]

Did anyone warn him that he was covering for James O'Brien's audience rather than Ali Maraj's audience?

[@peterknowles2344]

Well said that man and not the Tory

[@beandinner1262]

When he says "this country grew faster than x country", keep in mind it grew for a select few. Just because GDP went up does not necessarily mean you and me, the common working person, benefited in any way. Trickle-down economics does not exist. This is just standard economic/political propaganda. If I had to pick, than I'd much rather lower growth and better public services from everyone, but that is apparently considered loony leftie and communism these days.

[@Arpit89]

This growth is also because of excessively high immigration in uk since pandemic which has artificially increased population as well as gdp For example uk had net immigration of 800,000 people whereas France has net immigration of 200,000 people

[@ffsytube]

Growth? Wages suppressed, public services on theit knees, homelessness through the roof and the highest yax burden since the war. Growth.

[@assses-3216]

I think he must have been talking about personal growth

[@NelsonRaw550]

What a gas lighting grifter. We need so much more from our senior politicians…

[@neilg6675]

I bet the switchboards were lit up like xmas trees with people wanting to give (c)hunt their warm hearted thanks for his time in govt

[@MichaelReaddin]

We started from a very low base! If you’re at the bottom, the only way is up.

[@marty1459]

LBC is absolute garbage these days.

[@bradleycostello9077]

Property price crashed would help a generation of young people

[@voodoochile333]

We know why prices are increased

[@guymankowski3358]

He's thinking of himself, as usual

[@brianferguson7840]

Grew faster but didn't grow more than other European countries. If you have a penny and you make another penny you've had 100% growth. If I have £100 and I make another £10 then I've only had 10% growth. But my growth is still 1,000 times bigger than yours in monetary terms.

[@mikewallace1723]

Well said! Always annoys me! A stat that Brexit supporters always state! Would rather have the economy of Germany,even if it is suffering now. Our economy, is mainly services, and these can be done from anywhere. We do need to make stuff and sell it.

[@brianferguson7840]

​@@Varley-k1n Smaller % growth but I've got £110 in my bank but you've only got tuppence.

[@Jesusdisciples27]

@@brianferguson7840that’s the point they were making 🙄

[@Jesusdisciples27]

That’s the point they were making 😊

[@assses-3216]

This focus by the tories was always very poor when in government and faced with millions of people struggling... doubling down on it now is just embarrassing.

[@crayontom9687]

Hunt by name, Hunt by nature

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@crayontom9687 A natural winner at life.

[@stuc3195]

Jeremy Hunt is one of the most despised politicians of modest times 😅 and that's really saying something. Why the heck would LBC have him presenting a radio show

[@1953mr]

Grew???? So we are now a richer country than before BREXIT...

[@sedgeseymour9208]

Jeremy Hunt's Brexit 'success' explanation. Caller's evaluation, "It's a flawed comparison." Touché, caller.

[@ffsytube]

Global financial crisis was 16 yrs ago

[@NatSPLP-T2]

What is this guy doing on LBC after all the carnage? Citizens are stifled by strict rules and laws about everything but you can earn yourself this job after helping to eff up a country. Boooooooo!!!!!!!!

[@martinrooms3084]

A multi millionaire, says it all really

[@chatham43]

And you aren't. Says it all really.😊

[@michaelhoodleeder]

Also a major part of the hits from leaving the EU have yet to come. Magic . Not too late to change direction which is quietly happening .

[@adamrobinson7771]

Hunt talking nonsense, as usual.

[@johnrussell3961]

Its never the kids who create the wars they fight and die in..

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@johnrussell3961 John it's not a perfect world and casualties of war range from the very young to the very old that's the way it's always been.

[@mylips354]

What a 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@asadasadaz]

Jeremy doesn't know history obviously

[@phillipearmstrong5510]

But in France an Germany has a better standard of leving 😂😂

[@markwarby7447]

We had Cleverly, Braveman,now Hunt. Does James do this purposely so the torys can expose their nonsense or do lbc want to become like talk radio and be a tory supporting radio station

[@EloiseB2025]

I don't know about renaming themselves reform plc pr channel at this rate they'll have to change it to the Tory jobcentre instead.

[@adrianhjordan1981]

Jeremy *unt says he's not gaslighting. He's right of course because he's using a Strawman argument instead.

[@shaynejohnson7899]

Nhs isn’t about efficiency. the only priority should be the best needs of the patient

[@woodcote103]

How they can keep a straight face...and say that ?

[@fergusstevenston]

Isn’t this the guy out of the Brittas Empire? He seems to have become even more incompetent.

[@voodoochile333]

It's amazing how Hunts explanation of how the economy after Brexit didn't implode is totally ignored.

[@chatham43]

It imploded after the lockdown the effects on the economy will be felt for a generation!

[@wendysimpson6395]

Hunt still using the same pathetic excuses.

[@Prophet_Google]

*Was the caller cut off... as not got a right to reply!*

[@ColourfulAnimals]

These Tories must be suckers for punishment going on James' covers

[@henryburton6529]

Errr Brexit cost more than the pandemic. We aren't comparing ourselves to Germany we're comparing to what would have happened to the UK if we HAD stayed. ALL economists agree we all would have bee far richer

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@henryburton6529 Henry. we left the eu and we're never going back so you can compare and contrast and contrive all you want with this hypothetical UK that stayed in, it's not going to help ease your conscience and it's not going to help anybody else arguing in circles about this so you might as well just let it go Indiana.

[@henryburton6529]

@@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt Thats irrelevant. I want the people who supported Brexit to take responsibility for the immense damage they have caused our country. Nigel Farage is somehow popular despite being the architect of British economic decline.

[@chatham43]

@henry Don't recall you banging on about the benefits of the EU before. What changed since the vote??

[@EloiseB2025]

​@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt where did the OP say they wanted to rejoin? They were highlighting the damage brexit has done.

[@unusedsub3003]

Because fighting wars is for the plebs.

[@SiobhanBrady-pe5nb]

To say you grew faster is disingenuous. You were the lowest of the G7 so you were growing from a much lower down position. You were still bottom of the table

[@voodoochile333]

How were we lower than Italy or Spain?

[@cup1966wow]

@@voodoochile333 They aren't the G7.

[@assses-3216]

​@@voodoochile333 It appears that Spain's growth is higher than the UK's. Italy's growth was higher than the UK's for two of the 4 years.

[@Anthonydawn-fd6ox]

Anyone can make difficult decisions if it doesn't affect them

[@monkeyboy8424]

It was my experience Ritchie Sunak was a liar and could not be trusted about his promise of "Government integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level".

[@MalcolmMacKenzie-ou1mt]

@monkeyboy8424 He worked for Goldman Sachs so don't think for a second he was making any independent decisions, he was hand chosen by 'that' particular group of people to do what they wanted that's the way it's been in this country for a very very long time.

[@chatham43]

@monkey Your experience? What did he say to you?😊

[@monkeyboy8424]

@chatham43 He said it to the country on 25/10/22. Watch the news much?

[@drbennyboombatz9195]

The last caller is right, the notion Pluto is gonna start invading the rest of euro is nuts, he just didn't want a situation very similar to Americas cuban missile crisis problem and have another guys weapons in his next door neighbours garden, this nothing like the ww2 situation at all, I have to write this weird because it'll get remortgaged if you use the wrong phrases or words

[@EloiseB2025]

I know what you mean. Mine get removed any time you point this out too. Scaremongering nonsense.

[@drbennyboombatz9195]

@@EloiseB2025 I tell you what gets taken away even more, if you write about the council but higher selling IOU’s and the the way they teach eco name kicks in universities, that’s gone, pointing out real cor up tension, there was no “money” class at school, it’s not too difficult to understand the basics on how currency is created but it sounds complicated because everyday words are not used

[@petermizon4344]

EVERY COUNTRY HAD THE SAME PROBLEMS AS UK BUT AIN'T AS BAD A WAY AS UK

[@voodoochile333]

What? like most of the EU who has higher unemployment?

[@darrennandrewfitness2836]

​@voodoochile333 brother is it voodoochile EU folks are actually thriving

[@petermizon4344]

@voodoochile333 BUT WE ARE DOWN 100 BILLION A YEAR NOW, RECESSIONS COME AND GO IN ALL COUNTRIES AND GERMANY HAS ALWAYS BEEN STRONGER THAN UK AND FRANCE ALEAYS NIP AND TUCK, WE WILL STAY DOWN GERMANY WILL BE BACK, DO YOUR HISTORY PAL

[@voodoochile333]

@Buckets1000 Ireland’s economic model is fairly unstable. So much of the economic growth in recent years has been due to heavy reliance on foreign multi-national corporations drawn in by low corporate tax rates. This deprives the Irish government of a substantial tax base and makes the Irish economy overly reliant on corporations than can and will pack up and leave if they can save a few cents elsewhere. So, nothing to do with Brexit, Einstein. But I have to laugh at your blind faith in the crumbling EU project.

[@dianeglanville]

well said to this calling spot on

[@tackleberryc6472]

Jeremy.....C....Hunt....!

[@dotmatrix01]

Wow an LBC presenter who lets his callers speak! 😮

[@thedreamer3454]

I think the caller is right. Political figures kids should be the first people front line in all these wars....u will soon see how their tune changes

[@peteskoczylis9432]

By taking his comparison out of context he is lying between his teeth. Cutting Germany off a main energy source will always have its consequences. How can he defend that which he voted against in 2017?

[@ScruffyTubbles]

'I don't understand much about Econmics' You do yourself down. After (one presumes unless he was a fourth year man) three years studying 1/3rdf of an Economics 'Degree' there are others probably much less knowledgeable than you.

[@Torquemadia]

Whilst it's true that Britain did experience a period where it's growth outstripped Germany and the EU, this was because of how catastrophically Britain dealt with the pandemic. Our economy fell further, and took longer to get back to the same position. And this allowed the tories to honestly claim "we have the highest growth in the EU". An honest claim, covering up failed policy.

[@El_Paracleto]

Ah yes, the Son of Beelzibub himself...say no more...

[@chatham43]

But you did??!

[@michaelhoodleeder]

However, the UK's productivity has been lower than the US, France, and Germany for years. That's the facts. You can fact check this. In 30 seconds.

[@fintamaria2429]

Well said John!!

[@michaelhoodleeder]

The UK has to follow the EU model of growth whether we are in or out. How can you not see that now?. The difference was we were making the rules. Now we are following them. 🙄

[@woodcote103]

jeremy who

[@joskowal3711]

Putin's only having trouble in Ukraine because of the support we're providing. If he had rolled into Kyiv like this bloke wanted, he (and likely his successors) would have continued to edge westwards starting with Moldova.

[@shelaghclark5188]

YOU LET BRAVERMAN DO YOUR SHOW OBRIEN, DID YOU LISTEN TO HER STUPIDITY OF ITALY ...... LOST A LONG TIME LISTENER ...... I THOUGHT YOU WERE CREDIBLE JAMES OH HOW SO SO WRONG I WAS ..., YOU ARE THE SAME AS THEM LOT ....

[@myrtlepritchard3629]

Don’t be silly. LBC isn’t James O’Brien organisation. He doesn’t own it. He doesn’t get to pick the people standing in for him.

[@forlatagate1]

The game is rigged, why people still complain instead of doing something about the problem, is the British way of life

[@PeterDriscollAndTheCruisers]

hey hunt LOOK AT The Frigging pound....

[@dean9235]

Tories never change their tune. Always oblivious, always ignorant, and always willing to voice their opinions.

[@indieryry]

No we shouldn't listen to billionaires when it comes to efficiency savings. The only money they're interested in saving is their own.

[@chrislonghurst2379]

Torys made rules that forein workers could work here and be paid 20% less than minimum wage. Labour have not changed that.

[@SirKeefyKeef]

Yes! I agree.

[@stephenblanchard8973]

...he knows well enough that the NHS is run very efficiently.....as study after study has shown....

[@voodoochile333]

Please give me your sources

[@stephenblanchard8973]

@voodoochile333 ...ever heard of GOOGLE..!!!!?

[@voodoochile333]

@stephenblanchard8973 there are millions of sites. Please direct me to your sources.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

What an unbelievable liar.

[@user-fo2rv1fy5n]

The NHS workers call this man Jeremy C unt

[@margaretalice6343]

UK will negotiate new deals with European Union for sure. That’s crucial for our economy. We cannot turn the clock back to before BREXIT but we will move forward positively

[@smunro1983]

No, you need to look at some of the IT contracts handed out to consultants in places like India to develop their IT systems. While on the surface, it seemed cheaper, the end result was a bunch of IT systems, over-engineered, over complicated deliberately to keep them in the job at the expense of the taxpayer. It’s happening across all types of businesses, but it’s the government based ones I have a huge problem with.

[@margaretalice6343]

We need investment in nhs to train more UK workers and not quietly rely on foreign workers. Education & better pay is key

[@JohnPerry-h3l]

Of course they won't

[@CatherineLodge-h7c]

The UK economy has faced several challenges since Brexit, and its performance has been mixed compared to other European countries. According to Goldman Sachs, the UK economy has underperformed other advanced economies by about 5% since the Brexit referendum. This underperformance is attributed to reduced trade, weaker business investment, and lower immigration from the EU. In comparison, many European countries have experienced more stable growth. For instance, the economies of Germany and France have shown resilience and continued growth, although they too faced challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain disruptions. Overall, while the UK has managed to grow, it hasn't kept pace with some of its European counterparts.

[@dotmatrix01]

Germany? What are you smoking?? 🤣 Germanys in the toilet

[@MultiMeg101]

Germany has been in recession for 2 years and we are on the way to join them thanks to labour them and the Tories couldn't run a bath Jeremy you had 14 years to start apprenticeships there are still floods of foreigners in the petrochemical construction game and we have apparently left the EU there's been hundreds of lay offs before Christmas thanks to the new chancellor but the companies apparently have a tax break employing foreigners? Making them cheaper to employ and you can't blame them or can you?

[@annemoncrieff3875]

The man stating he knows little about economics saying hunt will know more. Do not put urself down cos hunt knows nothing which is less than u.

[@Deleted11100]

Jeremy Hunt is the tory equivalent to a cheese flan, boring, tasteless, pretentious

[@amantedellopera1681]

Did he use the word honestly...really...???😂😂😂😂

[@pershaankhan1662]

lbc definetly going down the pan. Got rid of sangita and this hunt turns up. And had to cut the last caller off, why? Can't people voice their opinion unless it's towing the narrative??

[@margaretalice6343]

NATO needed to stand up to Putin Support Ukraine & invoke as many sanctions as is possible. Putin won’t stop at Ukraine history tells us that.

[@Connor-0p900]

Being a conservative has nothing to do with being rich,my mum says everyone like to call out Rishi sunaks richness, keir starmer made fun of Rishi Flying on a private jet but keir starmer did the exact same thing!! Atleast Conservative areas and towns are kept alot cleaner and less immigration,before you call me middle class,im not, conservative towns feel more British,People are nicer,its not that they are upperclass,,Ben habib from reform and ben tesconi from ukip make common sense speeches,,i now live in labour held Middlesbrough.The labour mp wanted another takeaway built rather than speed cameras and speed ramps,we cant have chaavs and working class loudmouuths going hungry,can we,,,Being a Christian i hate far right and the gullible far left

[@assses-3216]

Having seen many towns which are tory run and meet none of the criteria, I have to say, your generalisations are poor.

[@EloiseB2025]

Rishi got criticised because he was using a private jet to go to a climate change conference shortly after a climate speech. When did Starmer do the same?

[@darrenengland6269]

Listen to people driven by the persuit of wealth to tell us how to run things? The connection between wealth and intelligence is so often stated by the media and politicians and it's rubish. Poverty is what is created by individuals becoming extremely rich, because that's how money works. It's a logical falacy that entrepreneurs can fix things for us, and it is a fact that they are actually to blame for the problems our nation faces. These problems include environmental damage, climate change and a poor economy.

[@OneDigitalSoul]

Well done Mike from Teddington

[@jujitsujew23]

The last caller is incredibly ignorant

[@annemoncrieff3875]

Then we left eu and it crumbled like a tower of paper tissue cards. U r such a liar and denier hunt.