My copy of “Great Britain?” is holding up well, I don’t think we need be a “stagnation nation”, we can move on
Jeremy Hunt has been on Newscast and this morning on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
It wasn’t just the cover of Hunt’s book (which I haven’t read) which reminded me of Torsten Bell. They even look alike
Can you tell which is the Chancellor? I would not be surprised Bell doing Hunt’s old job in time- or maybe that chap with the glasses to Hunt’s side.
I would like Hunt to be in the Labour party and doing something for Britain, maybe at the foreign office , doing what he is doing in these interviews, talking Britain up.
The Conservative party is no place for Hunt, he says he was given a 10% chance of surviving (know how he feels). He did survive an MP and now he sounds more reasonable than we ought to expect of a cabinet minister in opposition.
I doubt that Jeremy Hunt reads this blog but if one of his mates does, maybe they’ll slip him a note.
We could do with you , a dangerous world needs Hunt.
Unusual. Selective memory. He was a simply dreadful secretary of state for health. His divisive approach towards settling the junior doctors pay dispute caused massive damage to the NHS.
Would anyone have a view on this statement to the WPSC by Torsten Bill about the PPF surplus
The only thing I would take issue with in your presentation is that it is not a straightforward situation where there is a nice surplus that can fund that, because the balance sheet of the PPF is the public balance sheet, so this is a wider question for the public finances. The public finance implications are not just the impact on the FAS. Any increase in liabilities for the PPF immediately scores. It does need to be looked at properly. It needs to be considered in the round of those wider impacts, as all public policy matters are, but I am absolutely aware of the issues. I am also aware of the average age of the people that are affected. The best thing I can do is to say that I am aware and I am looking at it, but the public finance implications are more complicated than you set out.
Yes. Can’t do the right thing because of Departmental accounting and petty politics ?
I agree with Henry. It’s all about the politics of the left to thrash the elderly that started with Gordon Brown Pension Bill c1997.