Jeremy Hunt is a most despicable person, he chooses not to increase taxes for the extremely rich, who would hardly feel it, but to cut national health insurance, supposedly to help raise workers take home pay, which reduces the coffers towards the NHS. It is already in a bad enough state of neglect by the tories destructive policies. The majority of workers would willing pay more national insurance, in order to improve the state of hospitals, doctors surgeries and the working conditions of the people working in them.

@Obihann

2 ай бұрын

We need to add dentist to this list. I'm fed up of them being left out! It's a disgrace by itself. The probably deserves a list of their own, but that a topic for another conversation!

The idea that anyone but Diane can accept his apology is a line the government keeps pushing and is absolutely insane. That's not how apologising works.

So if you just apologise, all is forgiven... Ok great, does that work in court?

@lizdocherty3067

2 ай бұрын

Don't worry tricky Rishi and the #unt will be drawing up another plan for a new law unfortunately if your bank account has less than an eleven figure balance it will not apply to you, you know the kind poorer people, working class and Rishi doesn't know any.

I’m not a racist, I smiled at a black person once.

@Obihann

2 ай бұрын

I've heard this one several times😂🤣😂

“No contracts are decided by ministers” I nearly fell off my chair laughing at that one.

@martinahardaker8739

2 ай бұрын

Be interesting to see how many pop companies were 'awarded' PPE contracts in 2020. But we'll never get the truth.The Tory media don't hold the Tories to account.IMO

Empty words, the fact they are keeping the money tells you the reality...

They shouldn't give him his money back, they should instead donate all of it to various charities that work against racism. That would be the best use for this money.

@lizdocherty3067

2 ай бұрын

Tories and charities don't mix too many common people you know the kind unemployed, homeless, abused and forgotten. They have no interest in solving any of the problems in this country their aim is to cause division among different peoples they can then pick any group and use them as scapegoats. What we really need is more community workers who understand the problems and can help resolve them.

@samsoncooper1

2 ай бұрын

@@lizdocherty3067Of course they don't, still the best use for the money, even if there is a better chance of plaiting fog

@gothicgolem2947

2 ай бұрын

That’s actually a great idea tbf

@CosmicKnight369

2 ай бұрын

Your suggestion is a highly commendable option in this predicament.

@fukyutube2279

2 ай бұрын

Imagine Frank Hester saying... "It's like trying not to be racist but you see Louise Ellman on the TV, and you're just like… you just want to hate all Jewish women because she's there." "And I don't hate all Jewish women at all, but I think she should be shot."

Such a disgusting government we have atm.

Can you imagine his partner asking him what takeaway he wants.

@1292liam

2 ай бұрын

he doesnt know what nationality she is

He never apologised for being a racist though. He denies being one. Hence he hasn't apologised.

Impeccably embarassing to hear MPs and other officials use terminology like "cancelled" completely in earnest

"He has faced consequences so we should move on"... what consequences? That the public are now aware of him and a lot dislike him now? Yes, I'm sure that has him awake at night.

He's right about one thing, the tories record on these matters certainly does speak for itself. Just not quite in the way he intended it to mean..

@user-zl8km4sh9p

2 ай бұрын

You mean the most diverse government in history?

@kanedNunable

2 ай бұрын

@@user-zl8km4sh9p who gives a shit. they love employing coconuts to screw over others.

Hunt can talk his way around a corkscrew backwards , a bucket of slime.

Neither should Jeremy Corbyn be cancelled.

@drcommonsense1

2 ай бұрын

Fact. If that is their defence, then why are people bringing up Diane Abbotts comments when she has also apologised? The double standards are so clear.

@Frederique41

Ай бұрын

I agree

When Mr CxxT says no contract is done by Ministers, did he forget all the Covid contracts to MPs mates, that were signed of by Ministers. It was a Greedy free for all.

@gazza595

2 ай бұрын

But, but, "arms length" and other utter BS.

@martinahardaker8739

2 ай бұрын

Here here..

@michaelathanasiou2030

2 ай бұрын

Labour supporters are too thick to realise Labour are worse than Tories on this issue

@toxlaximus3297

2 ай бұрын

Don't forget funneling NHS money to private hospitals, selling royal mail off cheap to mates, selling water companies off cheap to mates who then asset strip it so much we have mass flooding and turds floating everywhere.

@JT-si6bl

2 ай бұрын

How did he earn his name again? What did he also neglect as health minister?

Does anyone remember Rowan Atkinson, Tory Party Conference sketch about how his friends are minorities and makes reference to curry. This whole government is like living in a sketch show and it's not satire nor funny, it's become real and shameful.

@hawkhoskins4250

2 ай бұрын

They are so dumb it’s unbelievable they’re in charge of our country. I’ve met cleverer worms.

@karinpewe3840

2 ай бұрын

That´s a wonderful sketch: "but now that we got the recipe..." :)

@MadMuzz007

2 ай бұрын

The whole shit show is like a poorly written episode of the thick of it

Basically I can say anything as long as I apologise after......I'm glad that's been cleared up.....NEVER VOTE TORY ...

Having listened to the word-salad form several mouthpieces it's obvious that No.10 have issued the instructions " Just keep emphasising how diverse the cabinet is and don't use the R word"

Given to him? I thought contracts were awarded on merit. Oh, I see my mistake.

It`s amazing how far 10 million pounds will will go to relieve people of their morality.... if indeed there were any present to begin with.

One of us would be in court if we said it.

@jjefferyworboys8138

2 ай бұрын

I have said far worse and hear I am.

@fricozoid1

2 ай бұрын

@@jjefferyworboys8138 sounds like the racist tory extremist party is your home

@neonwired4978

2 ай бұрын

@@jjefferyworboys8138 you're probably on prevent's watchlist

@kanedNunable

2 ай бұрын

@@jjefferyworboys8138 you are a bot tho wtf they gonna do?

@Obihann

2 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣 I never usually correct the online folk, but he walked straight into that one. You were right to pull him up!!!!

I suppose if he was Muslim and had said someone should be shot, this would have made bigger headlines... any speech that insights violence needs to be taken seriously.

@MrVidification

2 ай бұрын

The media are no better than the one making fun of any individual, given they only highlight what is said further for longer and widen it's reach and influence

so anyone can be racist and then just apologize and then everythings alright or does that defense only work if you give £10000000 to the tories first?

@HuplesCat

2 ай бұрын

Yes. This is the most corrupt government in British history

If only someone could have warned Hunt that this might come up as a question that way he could have prepared a cogent response. Instead we get the political equivalent of "I'm not racist; I have black friends".

Answer a different question with the same answer over and over and over again, this is just more of the same from these dispicable tories.

Jeremy Hunt has said the political version of "some of my friends are black".

Literally everything that has ever happened is in the past. Claiming that something that happened in the past has no impact in the present is a denial of reality itself. Get them out, get them all out.

I thought racism was a crime?

@kanedNunable

2 ай бұрын

calling for the murder of an MP i am pretty sure is illegal. also, paying a political party for contracts used to be illegal, not sure when that stopped happening?!?!

Can I stand in parliament square and repeat what was said and not get arrested. Wow, I can, what a tolerant country we live in. NOT.

What about calling this extremism & hate speech? it's a violent, as well as a racist attitude

@fukyutube2279

2 ай бұрын

Imagine Frank Hester saying... "It's like trying not to be racist but you see Louise Ellman on the TV, and you're just like… you just want to hate all Jewish women because she's there." "And I don't hate all Jewish women at all, but I think she should be shot."

After the £15m "Donations", looks like Hester bought his place on Sunaks honours list to upgrade his OBE

Now that Hester has had his "Gerald Ratner" moment, I hope that the companies/shareholders he is associated with deal with him in the appropriate manner

And we all know the truth that politicians are refusing to say - 'give me money and you can do/say whatever you like.'

The £300 million in contracts should be cancelled , how much profit from that £300 million is in his pocket and not a bad earner from his donation of £10 million ,

@seanhaywood4597

2 ай бұрын

lets not forget baroness mone and the dodgy ppe contracts,

"I can't be racist, I looked at a black person once." That's about the level of the Tory party at this point.

@gargomelbogle2700

2 ай бұрын

Exactly 😅😅😅

The consequences should be severe as they come. Loss of all governmental contracts, a massive fine, an arrest and charge for making a death threat towards a citizen.

@ChristineParkinson-ek1ll

2 ай бұрын

Completely agree - if only - They're a disgrace and absolutely vile

@trucker4567

2 ай бұрын

Anyone that thinks Abbott isn't a racist are kidding themselves, ever since she bavame an mp she has spewed out her hate for white people, I have NO sympathy for this woman, she is a nasty piece of work, but labour will milk this for everything they have got.

@jjefferyworboys8138

2 ай бұрын

Calm down dear, you will do yourself a mischief.

@Godlike-87

2 ай бұрын

@@jjefferyworboys8138 maybe you have the privilege of that nonchalant attitude. My people don't. Go condescend somewhere else.

@moonshine9902

2 ай бұрын

In a fair and just society, Hester would have been charged and be held accountable, but the UK that was perceived as thus are not anymore. Supporting genocide snd starvation are hardly emblems of decency and humanity.

He needs sacking

Give the money back you cowards.

@user-eu9iw6cj5y

2 ай бұрын

Only if Labour do the same, playground politics

@kanedNunable

2 ай бұрын

@@user-eu9iw6cj5y when did labour get a 10m donation and give 400m worth of contracts? i would love to know...

'I think our record speaks for it's itself, some of our best friends are black and asian'.

@nelch

2 ай бұрын

Laughed out loud at that

@ijc9984

2 ай бұрын

The only colour we love is green.

@NickSBailey

2 ай бұрын

lol did he really use that old chestnut, they're useless as human beings and worse at politics

@fj103

2 ай бұрын

This is a farce

@olafhenson3626

2 ай бұрын

its such a missing the woods for the trees moment, yes race is a massive part of this but its not the whole picture, they're still associating with people who called on for a MP to be shot.

but Jeremy Cu.... erm Hunt.... he hasn't apologised for his comment's being racist and also recommending harm come to a member of parliament... he's only apologised for being rude, but if we boil it down, that apology is more accurately only cos he was confronted about it... I dare say he doesn't possess any iota of regret or remorse for what he's done... the fact that the Tories are willing to stand up for him and make excuses.... shows exactly what they are and what they stand for... to them an "apology" is a get out of trouble act... to avoid any repercussions but for the rest of us if anyone else made a comment about them, which was said cos we mean it... or was made out of context, do you think we'd be as lucky to avoid prosecution for what was said if we just simply say "I apologise, it was rude of me to say that" ? the answer would be no.... so why is it they seem to think they have a right to expect this to just go away? and why is it they expect the people or those who they or their donors make comments wishing that anyone who is of a certain ethnicity or background or financial status... should be shot? and who are they to expect no repercussions of such behaviour to ever occur.... I say we all hold them to the level of contempt they would hold us to if we spoke about them in such manner... and hold them in the level of contempt that they should be held in for behaviour that is totally unacceptable

As Jezza says , they made the laws so they cannot have broken them!That famous "transparency" word again , yes we can see right through them!!!!

Whyishe so wealthy from govmt contracts. Drowning in money. Needs to be investigated. Did he tender or was the work just allocated? Sounds dodgy !?

Translation = It's an awfully large amount of money "for us"😌😌😌💰💰

Racism aside, saying you want someone to be shot is the words and thoughts of a psychopath. Why on earth would anyone want to be associated with that type of person? And the reason they won't return the moeny is because their lust for greed is as insaitable as ever. They've been stealing from the public purse for years, so they wouldn't turn their noses up at a donation just because the person is pathological.

he won't condemn him the tories will do and say anything for money

@leroysimon5692

2 ай бұрын

👍🏾

@jaffacakes5796

2 ай бұрын

That's why they are in the job fir the money . Not for the people

@fukyutube2279

2 ай бұрын

Imagine Frank Hester saying... "It's like trying not to be racist but you see Louise Ellman on the TV, and you're just like… you just want to hate all Jewish women because she's there." "And I don't hate all Jewish women at all, but I think she should be shot."

He’s apologised, so we should just all move on. The Johnson mantra.

@pippagreenslade891

2 ай бұрын

No he didn't apologise for being racist only rude and his comment about shooting should be dealt with by the police usual cop out .unt

@scarterw2

2 ай бұрын

No way!!! That's not how it's done. We need to meet up with our respective gangs in the playground at break time and shout things like 'liar liar pants on fire' or 'I'm telling my dad", 'I'm telling my dad and my dad's a boxer - he'll beat up your dad'. 'Well, my brother is a soldier and he's got a gun'. Then the teacher will come out and tell everyone to say they're sorry and shake hands. I can't believe the infantile behaviour of the entire political and media class. It beggars belief. The problems faced in this country and they bang on about this utter, infantile claptrap. If people don't like what a politician does they won't vote for them. It's called democracy.

@scarterw2

2 ай бұрын

@@pippagreenslade891 well, all I can say is you should put your hand up as you walk all the way to the teachers desk to report him. That'll teach him.

@eastlondon666

2 ай бұрын

Move on people nothing here for you......who ever listens to this shite and still votes tory need to look in the mirror!

@dangraham3361

2 ай бұрын

​@@pippagreenslade891 I don't think you're understanding the comment. If I'm right, I think the comment is a critique of the Tory Party's insane destruction of decency in politics

Cancelling ignorant people does not make the problem go away.Confronting their views in public is the only way.

@Snotzalotz

2 ай бұрын

But no one’s being cancelled? No one is ever getting cancelled because it’s not real.. it’s just an excuse when these scumbags do something disgusting, they can just scream “IM BEING CANCELLED” and deflect..

What more answers can you expect from a robot? The awful man has a machine mind and a machine heart. And let's see how Kemi Badenoch stands by her principles on how she responds to the donation issues and whether they should be handed back or not.

Hunt is confirming that the comments were made. Others have said 'alleged' etc

Clearly the contracts were not equality impact assessed properly as required.

If it’s acceptable to cancel people for racism then you can argue what the definition of racism it becomes a power struggle to define racist and cancel your enemies.

"He's got all our data" those little interjections were both hilarious and saddening

I can think of 10 million reasons tories won’t call him racist

The tories seem to be fine with their donors calling for people to be shot, as long as their are donating the right amount of money, and 15 million seems to be their sweet spot for defending such extremist tory donors.....and of course now we must look at the 100 million plus in contracts given to him and by who and for how much.

If politicians talk about extremists in the party maybe they should look at themselves when departments target groups like the poor and disabled.

Who are they to tell us to accept the apology and move on?!?!?!? 🤬

@2:04 "...always done at arms length.." a bit like passing a pint over the bar to your mate, the Health Secretary?

@fricozoid1

2 ай бұрын

Unlawful PPE VIP Lane springs to mind

How is returning £10m back to a someone “cancelling” them?

Blah blah blah blah not really an answer. If it wasn't for the up coming election he would have claimed his cash donor mate was a victim of smear😂

30 pieces of silver is all it takes to sway a Tory.

He has got to say that'for they have no intention of handing back the 15million...

"He's been referred to the police as well..." So again, the question is if he should he be afforded so much public money funneled into his own pockets. Being referred to police seems to be a disqualifier thou they don't present it as such.

Hunt wouldn’t be saying this if he didn’t give them 10 million. They just want the money .

Big difference between an empty apology for he said, compared to a personal apology to the person he made the remark about.

Interesting use of the word "cancelled" implying a 'woke agenda' in calling someone out for racism. That would suggest that one can make racist remarks, apologies, and carry on. No accountability or consequences if you are rich then?

What a complete Jeremy.

Hester denies he was sexist or racist, so his views remain the same - this is obvious. Hunt framing this observation as being "canceled" is just indictative of the Tories commitment to culture wars.

The whole parliament was talking about her yet she was not given time speak. Tells it all 😮

It's so strange Jeremy Corbyn gets brought up every week after apologising and public humiliation yet this doner just gets a free pass.... interesting indeed

What’s the point of these committees?!

He didn’t apologise for the statement, I would have more respect for Tories if they simply said the comments were racist but we need the money so we are keeping it because that’s the reality. This BS about being cancelled is also appalling

But there is a history of racist remarks. The comments directed at Diane Abbott are particularly egregious ones because they involves violence, but others are racist and offensive. Past and current employees say he regards these comments as humorous. Jeremy Hunt ignores other comments and keeps repeating he apologised. But that is inaccurate, he hasn’t he merely apologised for being rude not for being racist or threatening. Shame on his gaslighting.

Why isn’t he called out for calling for someone to be shot

But still no words of support or solidarity with Diane from Tories or Labour

@hailstone2554

2 ай бұрын

Anjela Raynor has come out in support.

@frankcarter6427

2 ай бұрын

@@hailstone2554 True - pretty much a lone voice among the racists at the top of the party

@RobinHood-us7sg

2 ай бұрын

Do Nadia Whittome and Zarah Sultana not count??? 😂

@jjefferyworboys8138

2 ай бұрын

I loathe this woman.

@hailstone2554

2 ай бұрын

​@@jjefferyworboys8138which woman do you loath.

It's apples and oranges comparing what happened to Diane Abbott and what people think should "happen" to Frank Hester. Hester isn't an MP.

This man is out of his depth in whatever job he does.

Blarr, blarr, blarr. Pay the money back

Grubby money, for a grubby government

Albert Speer said “sorry” 🤦🏻‍♂️

The sooner the next General election gets here the better

I'm pleased that anyone using language deemed as hateful in the new Hate Speech Bill will be excused if they appologise.

Give the £10 million to food banks

How can the Tories be racist if they have a brown leader? Asking for a racist friend 😂

“Record on these issues" 😂😂😂😐

Apologised but still feels the same way. Apologised for saying it but not for meaning it.

The racist sexist comments were awful, however, no one seems to be making any reference to the call for violence by Hester. I'm astounded.

😂😂😂😂 f”cking joke it’s like they just playing a April the 1st joke on us but it’s ground hog day 😂😂😂😂

do not accept the apology, it means nothing.

Just when you think a Government minister can't be any more ridiculous one of them proves you wrong!

So NO , they are not going to return the money...Now why are we surprised ..

It’s been referred to the police, we can rest assured that will lead to absolutely no action. Does everyone get to apologise after they’ve made violent hate speech directed at a person rather than get charged?

‘I think the Conservative party’s record on these issues speaks for itself’ Yes, but that’s not the response you think it is

Hunt is another disgrace - he does not understand the level of annoyance that the general public feel towards their response!! All mouth and no action!!

Typical response from a politician. Pointless having him up there, other than to make him slightly uncomfortable. Shame how backward society has become in that respect… Apology? Another joke…

What a slimeball. If Heston aimed that comment at a certain other community, he would have been dealt with swiftly and harshly and it wouldn't have taken 5 years either.

Mr Hunt...."iv got a black friend" bollocks

I think money is ok racist or not racist.... OOOOOK gotchhhaaa thank you for clearing that up -_^

MP quizzing Hunt sounds like Philomena Cunk

The Conservative Party's record on such things certainly does speak for itself - give them enough money and you will be rewarded with massive amounts of public money. Corrupt is the closest I can think of.