So is Hunt the Prime minister in all but name?

Saetana

I am not a fan of Jeremy Hunt but was reluctantly impressed with his performance at the dispatch box this afternoon. He was clear and concise about his plans, and the markets have rallied in response. Bankers bonuses cost the public purse nothing - apparently what has been happening is banks have had to pay higher basic salaries to compensate for the bonus cap, said salaries not being performance related, unlike bonuses. It is expected that removing the cap will increase the tax take - as high earners those bonuses will be taxed at the top rate and it should help attract more talent to the UK financial sector. Even the EU (which is where the bonus cap came from) is relaxing its bonus cap - we need to keep London as the premier financial market in Europe as it contributes a huge amount to the treasury and the economy in general.

Don't forger, Saetena, that almost anyone would seem impressive when compared to Truss/Kwarteng, and Johnson before them.

That in itself doesn't make the latest pretender a good person to lead the country. In fact, the exact opposite could be true.

I think the biggest worry is the level of poverty in Britain today. After six years of extraordinary financial turmoil wrought by Brexit, then covid, now supporting Ukraine as Russia rages war and inflicts financial damage on the energy supply, and we are now faced with strikes. The strikes will have to be settled and welfare will have to rise. Can the Tories borrow for this? If they think they can cut services and not borrow just to appease the market they are asking for trouble. It is time for a socialist budget can the tories hack that? Like in war time, call it what they may, to get us through the winter. These are tough times with the potential for real suffering of many if they don’t.

And no maybe70 I haven’t read said book nor do I have any sympathy for that ideology. All pie in the sky. I was just sick of one woman getting the blame for the whole shit show.

Theoddbird

Armchair politicians....rife on here. If any of you were in charge the country would be on its knees...hahaha. I actually like Hunt. He is what I would call 'a sensible chap'. I was impressed with his interview with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday.

Armchair politicians....rife on here.

Do you think we shouldn't have a view on the state of the economy brought about by this current government - something that will affect us all one way or another? Or that we are all so politically naive and uneducated that we cannot discuss recent events because we don't understand them?

And the country is already on its knees - or just about getting up from them because an incompetent woman who embraces the free-market economy didn't understand the basics of it - who announced an astonishing range of tax cuts without any indication of how they would be paid for. A woman who forced the BoE into a £60 billion + intervention and pushed the UK to the brink of a recession...

... and you're "hahaha" laughing at us?

Some posting on here have more economic reasoning, rationality and logic in their little fingers than Truss has in her whole blundering inexpert rigid brain.

Happy to see a practice nurse, doctor or pharmacist depending on what's wrong with me. If i think I'd need a referral it would be a Dr to save time. Only thing is I remember many years ago in the days of handwritten prescriptions, a Dr prescribed the wrong dosage and the pharmacist noticed so is an important second line of safety. In my Dr's, you cannot often speak to a pharmacist as they aren't available.
They are dispensers with no knowledge of what they are dispensing. You need to speak to the Dr they say, which would be fine but I saw a health professional who said I mayneed medication and she would speak to a doctor. I was texted weeks later saying I had still to collect medication (which I knew nothing about). Never saw a Dr in any of it for BP tablets. A Dr I saw down South was actually Googling my symptoms....I knew what it was but he disagreed till we found a photo on Google images .

I have been watching info on tv about the big links that Hunt has with china. Very scary