Jeremy Hunt Rhyming Slang

[Strocky]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservat...

Yep let's take on the Chinese workforce you lazy proles

[andymadmak]

Strocky said:

Yep let's take on the Chinese workforce you lazy proles

I'm struggling to see how even you can make the interpretation that you have from the things that Jeremy Hunt actually said. Anyways at least you're still alive (thank goodness! ) Over on the Scots indy thread we were getting worried by your absence (and to be fair the absence of ALL the yessirs) since the scandals surrounding the SNP started to get aired last week) and feared you may be ill.
Glad to see you're just in hiding - oh, and your mates at the BBC already did the Jeremy Hunt joke a few years back. Do keep up!

[Zod]

I think it's a terrible pity that Cameron can't attend a hunt these days.

[Rude-boy]

Zod said:

I think it's a terrible pity that Cameron can't attend a hunt these days.

I agree. I thought that the 'antis' had got their way and now that it is little more than a ride out in drag it should be free for all to attend (upon invitation to do so) without the 'toff' bashing.

Oh well, it seems that once again rather than people raising their game they would rather just drag others down...

[Strocky]

andymadmak said:

I'm struggling to see how even you can make the interpretation that you have from the things that Jeremy Hunt actually said. Anyways at least you're still alive (thank goodness! ) Over on the Scots indy thread we were getting worried by your absence (and to be fair the absence of ALL the yessirs) since the scandals surrounding the SNP started to get aired last week) and feared you may be ill.
Glad to see you're just in hiding - oh, and your mates at the BBC already did the Jeremy Hunt joke a few years back. Do keep up!

As I posted on the Labour thread to Ricco, I've been banned from the thread or I would have countered your long "opinion" piece with my own "opinion"

I assume you agree with JH's comments?

[TankRizzo]

quoting the mirror

[Strocky]

TankRizzo said:

quoting the mirror

You must have missed the Telegraph link below the shiny shiny

Funnily enough the right wing press have tried to downplay Hunt's comments

[skyrover]

yellow journalism much?

[sidicks]

Strocky said:

You must have missed the Telegraph link below the shiny shiny

Funnily enough the right wing press have tried to downplay Hunt's comments

Genuine question - Do you think the work ethic in the UK in general is the same as in other countries e.g. China?

[Strocky]

From the PH paper of choice, since some you are too lazy to click in the Telegraph link in the 1st post

Jeremy Hunt: 'Tax credit cuts will teach British people to work harder'

Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, has suggested that controversial tax credit cuts will encourage people to work harder.
He has told a fringe meeting here in Manchester:

Jeremy Hunt said:

We have to proceed with these tax credit changes because they are a very important cultural signal.

"My wife is Chinese. We want this to be one of the most successful countries in the world in 20, 30, 40 years’ time.

"There’s a pretty difficult question that we have to answer which is essentially: are we going to be a country that is prepared to work hard in the way that Asian economies are prepared to work hard, in the way that Americans are prepared to work hard? And that is about creating culture where work is at the heart of our success.

"I don't want to pretend that it won't be very challenging, but I do believe that moving to a culture where work pays and we are trying to help people be independent and stand on their own two feet, is the most important thing we can do for people on low incomes."

Mr Hunt's comment is likely to be unwelcome as the Tories have been trying hard to make sure that tax credit cuts do not become the main issue of the day.

[FredClogs]

There was a young man called Hunt
Who demonstrated considerable front
He told us work harder
Like he did - being the eldest son of a Lord Admiral Hunt, educated at a top public school, gifted a place at oxford and then setting about a career as a professional politician, via a short stint as a marmalade exporter.
What a massive .

[wolves_wanderer]

"There’s a pretty difficult question that we have to answer which is essentially: are we going to be a country that is prepared to work hard in the way that Asian economies are prepared to work hard, in the way that Americans are prepared to work hard? And that is about creating culture where work is at the heart of our success."

So he said about working hard in the way that Americans do but unsurprisingly everyone has taken the mention of China out of context and is now spinning it to make it look like he wants everyone working 16 hour days sewing Nikes together?

[Gargamel]

FredClogs said:

There was a young man called Hunt
Who demonstrated considerable front
He told us work harder
Like he did - being the eldest son of a Lord Admiral Hunt, educated at a top public school, gifted a place at oxford and then setting about a career as a professional politician, via a short stint as a marmalade exporter.
What a massive .

Pretty sure he also set up, managed and then sold a software firm for £30m

Ah - my bad - a PR firm to Tech Clients - From Wiki

After university Hunt worked for two years as a management consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants,[9] and then decided to pursue life as an English language teacher in Japan. Whilst living in Japan he became a proficient speaker of the Japanese language and enthusiast of modern Japanese and other east Asian cultures.

On his return to Britain he tried his hand at a number of different entrepreneurial business ventures, including a failed attempt to export marmalade to Japan.[10] Hunt joined Profile PR, a public relations agency specialising in IT which he co-founded with Mike Elms, a childhood friend. With clients such as BT, Bull Integris, and Zetafax Profile did well during the IT boom of the mid-1990s. Hunt and Elms later sold their interest in Profile to concentrate on directory publishing. Together they founded a company now known as Hotcourses, a major client of whose is the British Council.

[legzr1]

FredClogs said:

There was a young man called Hunt
Who demonstrated considerable front
He told us work harder
Like he did - being the eldest son of a Lord Admiral Hunt, educated at a top public school, gifted a place at oxford and then setting about a career as a professional politician, via a short stint as a marmalade exporter.
What a massive .

Not bad.

A-

[Fittster]

Gargamel said:

Pretty sure he also set up, managed and then sold a software firm for £30m

He ran a PR firm, not a software firm. I can't find any details of that being sold for £30m.

He also set-up a training company that is worth millions. The biggest client of that training firm? The government.....

[Rude-boy]

FredClogs said:

There was a young man called Hunt
Who demonstrated considerable front
He told us work harder
Like he did - being the eldest son of a Lord Admiral Hunt, educated at a top public school, gifted a place at oxford and then setting about a career as a professional politician, via a short stint as a marmalade exporter.
What a massive .

This is exactly the sort of thing that stops me every time I start to get any sense of sympathy with those who would rather blame 'the system' than themseleves for failing to progress as far in life as they had hoped they would. "gifted a place at Oxford". So far as i am aware it has been quite some time since anyone was 'gifted' a place at Oxford who did not have the brains to be there in the first place.

There is also the very clear attack on him for the very real evil he has done by being born to a Peer. Envy? Malice? I know what drives this but every time I see some squit like that written I wonder why it is such a sin to dare to be a politician unless your Dad worked 25 hours a day down pit.

All this said I can see why there are a number of people who should fear the posibility of actually having to work hard for the very first time in their life.

[Gargamel]

Fittster said:

He ran a PR firm, not a software firm. I can't find any details of that being sold for £30m.

He also set-up a training company that is worth millions. The biggest client of that training firm? The government.....

See my edit.

He is my constituency MP, Decent chap, has come a refereed a few of the clubs games of football, and is often out and about in the local community. Campaigned very effectively for the local hospital (pre being Heath Minister) sharp guy, knows his stuff and is responsive ( we have corresponding on a few subjects)

So overall personally I think he is a pretty decent chap, just is an obvious "posh boy" target. Which is odd, I prefer the most capable and best educated people to be running big organisations like the NHS.

[FredClogs]

Fittster said:

Gargamel said:

Pretty sure he also set up, managed and then sold a software firm for £30m

He ran a PR firm, not a software firm. I can't find any details of that being sold for £30m.

He also set-up a training company that is worth millions. The biggest client of that training firm? The government.....

It was his hard work what got him where he is though, not his endless opportunity for financial failure, being head boy at Charterhouse or being a brazen bare faced opportunist - it was all about how hard he worked...

The Tories just can't escape how disconnected they are from the reality of ordinary peoples lives, no matter how much logic or rational they appear to apply to their policy decisions there is always a in their armour (no racist pun intended) through which the stench of their hypocrisy and privilege seeps through.

[Zod]

FredClogs said:

It was his hard work what got him where he is though, not his endless opportunity for financial failure, being head boy at Charterhouse or being a brazen bare faced opportunist - it was all about how hard he worked...

The Tories just can't escape how disconnected they are from the reality of ordinary peoples lives, no matter how much logic or rational they appear to apply to their policy decisions there is always a in their armour (no racist pun intended) through which the stench of their hypocrisy and privilege seeps through.

So how is Sajid Javid disconnected? 12 out of 22 cabinet members attended state schools. Three of those twelve went to Oxbridge. The cabinet can never reflect the population as a whole (certainly, no Labour cabinet ever has, including Corbyn's shadow one), but compared with any major business, Cameron's cabinet is strikingly inclusive and diverse.

[Rude-boy]

FredClogs said:

It was his hard work what got him where he is though, not his endless opportunity for financial failure, being head boy at Charterhouse or being a brazen bare faced opportunist - it was all about how hard he worked...

The Tories just can't escape how disconnected they are from the reality of ordinary peoples lives, no matter how much logic or rational they appear to apply to their policy decisions there is always a in their armour (no racist pun intended) through which the stench of their hypocrisy and privilege seeps through.

There you go again trying to make out that 'The Tories' (or the Tory Party for ease of writing) are not made up of ordinary people. More sound bites and fiscal nonsense.

Would you not have thought that those with the least to lose (ie the have nots) are in a far better position to pursue endless opportunities. After all if it all goes wrong then they have far less distance to fall and their breadline brothers will all be there to catch them and help them back on their feet again?

What is this desire to drag people down? Is it really only because it is easier than to haul yourself up? Is it down to some people's deep seated insecurity as to their abilities? Or is it just laziness?

When will people on the more socialist side of the political divide realise that if you pay people enough money that they don't have to work (when they are able to do so) all you do is create an underclass. If you are only a few pounds better off a week working than you are sitting on the dole doing the odd cash in hand job what is the incentive when you have little or no pride, and certainly no desire? Far easier to wail and moan about your parents lack of social success and blame it all on them and the parents of others who have 'made it'. Heaven forbid anyone be forced to look to their own self for the root of the failure to improve one's lot in life. The biggest issue though is that there is no bottomless pit of money.