{"id":26941,"date":"2023-11-22T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/?p=26941"},"modified":"2023-11-22T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:39:06","slug":"i-hated-it-angry-tory-mps-brutally-rip-apart-jeremy-hunts-autumn-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahootie.com\/politics\/i-hated-it-angry-tory-mps-brutally-rip-apart-jeremy-hunts-autumn-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"I hated it! Angry Tory MPs brutally rip apart Jeremy Hunts Autumn Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Hunt to cut National Insurance from 12% to 10% from January<\/h3>\n

For those who know their Christian calendar, January 6 is Epiphany the day the three Kings brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus.<\/p>\n

The Chancellor will be hoping that his valuable Christmas gift to taxpayers next year on January 6 of a two percent cut in National Insurance contributions (NICs), will be enough to solve the Government’s two huge political problems.<\/p>\n

The first of these problems is to ensure that Rishi Sunak’s Government actually survives until the next election and is not brought down by Tory plotting.<\/p>\n

The second is to engineer a miraculous turnaround in the polls to allow the Conservatives to pull off an election victory which currently nobody expects or at the very least minimise the defeat which currently is looking like it will be of historic proportions.<\/p>\n

Mr Hunt had to do all this but still, somehow keep enough back to have a bumper giveaway budget next spring.<\/p>\n

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In his 52-minute speech, Mr Hunt started reeling off his 110 supply-side reforms to help grow the economy and “make work pay”.<\/p>\n

Among the highlights, there was the major reform to out-of-work benefits which will see the stopped for people who refuse to work.<\/p>\n

There was the guarantee of the pension triple lock, tax cut for the self-employed and the massive increase in the living wage now worth 30 percent more since 2010.<\/p>\n

Then he had his tax discount for businesses investing in Britain and he finished off with a flourish of a two percent cut in National Insurance Contributions (NICs).<\/p>\n

Unusually, Mr Hunt even managed to work in some good gags – his “two Jeremys” one with Starmer about how they had both tried to get a Jeremy in as Prime Minister (in reference to himself and Corbyn) even had the Labour leader laughing.<\/p>\n

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