People can’t believe Jeremy Hunt said “Sound money under the Conservatives or run out of money under Labour” with a straight face
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Serial government failure Jeremy Hunt, whose rewriting of doctors’ contracts is reaping such benefits right now, has taken time out of his busy schedule of not coming up with any useful fiscal policies to make the least self-aware statement of the Tory conference – so far, at any rate.
Jeremy Hunt – “Sound money under the conservatives or run out of money under Labour."
This coming from the man who was brought in to rescue the economy after Truss/Kwarteng crashed the economy.
#cpc23 pic.twitter.com/fii2Pfernx
— Haggis_UK (@Haggis_UK) October 2, 2023
You could probably guess how people reacted to that soundbite, but you don’t need to.
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This is the man who has so little wiggle room in his budget that he's considering means testing the Winter fuel allowance, scrapping legs of HS2, and looking at breaking the Triple-Lock pledge.
— Edward Turvey (@EdwardTurvey) October 2, 2023
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Left: Jeremy Hunt, "Sound money under the Conservatives" #CPC23
Right: Rishi Sunak, "Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss made mistakes.. As a result, we are in an economic crisis.. I have been elected to fix Liz Truss's mistakes" pic.twitter.com/0CMK9Nl3ip
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) October 2, 2023
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National Debt as a percentage of GDP:
2010 – 64%
2016- 81%
2023 – 101%Fuck off Jeremy Hunt you lying bellend. #CPC2023 #ToryConference https://t.co/fisXiCJ2rL
— Sarcastictvat (@sarcastictvat) October 2, 2023
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The lazy applause though…. They know its nonsense. https://t.co/VrlWu70GQv
— EU Citizen ✊✊✊ #FBPE (@Ambulchen) October 2, 2023
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"Sound money under the Conservatives or run out of money under Labour".
Hunt ignoring that taxes are at the highest they've been for 70 years, the national debt has doubled since 2010 & our doctors are paid 35% less than they were a decade ago.
— Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy (@GyllKing) October 2, 2023
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Maybe they think we are all goldfish
— hotlettuce (@cryptlettuce42) October 2, 2023
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Sound Money?? Forgetting Truss’ disaster they spaffed £15Billipn (almost) up the wall on unusable PPE, money which conveniently ended up with Tory peers
I suppose it’s only smart money if you have an in with the Tories
— dillon (@_d1llon) October 2, 2023
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Breaking: tory party vows to save the country from the tory party https://t.co/TMd2dw5MOT
— simon ferrigno #RejoinEU #FBPE #EUFM #SardinesUK (@brexcyclopaedia) October 2, 2023
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"I know what'll make a great speech, highlighting the mess we've made!" https://t.co/ArltXLdZ9O
— ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Karl (@karu1402) October 2, 2023
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For a party that wants to pitch itself as competent on the economy, it’s somewhat odd that he spent just under 20 minutes on his speech – one of the shorter Chancellor speeches in years, without any serious policy announcements.
No plan, no direction, no energy. https://t.co/2OvzDZBVT1
— Olaf Stando (@OlafSNP) October 2, 2023
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I’m sure the £14.9 bn written off by Sunak is safe and sound in Tory pockets. https://t.co/hyVFSFyY9g
— Lord Knows (@Hickson1Chris) October 2, 2023
We love sarcasm done well. Like this …
Absolutely right. Can you imagine the financial mess we would be in without the tories ? Labour and their mad spending on public service etc. ? The tories give us truth , honesty and sound money while taking care of poorest. Labour would spend it all on 20 mph signs and the like https://t.co/A9UIc2gMWn
— Anniesomeone (@Anniesomeone1) October 2, 2023
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