Watch Again: Jeremy Hunt promises tax cuts if Tories win general election
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Watch again as Jeremy Hunt delivered a speech on Friday, 17 May, promising further tax cuts if the Conservatives win the general election.
The chancellor was expected to accuse Labour of “playground politics” over attacks on the historically-high burden being borne by households and businesses.
Speaking from London, Mr Hunt vowed that “taxes will go down under a Conservative government” and accused his shadow, Labour’s Rachel Reeves, of plotting hikes to fund the opposition party’s spending pledges.
Mr Hunt was also expected to say he will to scrap national insurance - a measure Labour has described as an unfunded £46 billion pledge.
He said the current plans are necessary to pay for the pandemic-era furlough scheme and the energy bill bailout.
It comes as Rishi Sunak’s attempts to kickstart the general election campaign have failed to move voters, a new poll has revealed.
The prime minister has claimed the UK is facing a threat of nuclear war and that the Government needs to have a government strong on defence and security.
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You've had 14 years to sort this mess out, so no.
Smug, defensive and patronising.
NEVER EVER TRUST THE TORIES
You want Starmer to win so he can flood the UK with invading Islamists benefit scroungers --LOL
Cons and Liebour are now the same under Starmer. Please vote for Green party.
Never ever trust a Career politician of all parties
I was gonna say. Don't trust any of them. Say one thing, do whatever they fancy in power. They all do it
Red and blue
He’s a smug git isn’t he?
A DISGUSTING PIECE OF WORK!!!
They all are. Until we get rid at the election.
The two biggest myths? 1. That Tories are the party of low taxation. 2. That the Tories are the better fiscal managers.
14 years to get us into this sorry state. Utterly shameful.
Never trust the tories time to wake up on these tories corrupt party
I hope you don't think that Labour will be any better! Vote for someone or something else and neither of the two dick head partys.
the sooner these fools are out of power the better
Unfortunately bigger fools will replace them
@@moosky7344
Your crystal balls need cleaning. 🔮
Youre right , the UK is a nation of fools.
Most party’s have far more clowns,than ring leaders. Christ look at our SNP?
Vote reform.
Man stands in front of the camera and lies, This is the most desperate despicable speech i have ever seen. What's worse is no journalist in the room questioned his LIES
Massive Corruption on PPI contracts is another shock they dont want to talk about.
Absolutely. They should be prosecuted.
The PFI contracts that Labour ruined the NHS with?
100%
Well said. Lot of people have already forgotten about the PPE scam.
He means tax cuts to his rich mates.
Isn't this basically bribery
No, it's more like a con. With bribery we would actually receive something.
No , with Bribery you get paid Up Front , you know just how much you will recieve before the '' action '' , this is more of a '' Promisory '' note , no real value , an enticementment , and may never materialise . 82 seat Majority , everything the Tories promise in the Future should have already been done .
sounds like it to me!
It would be if they were not in power. More like a hostage situation. They are in power, they can do it tomorrow. But they won’t do it unless we vote for them 🙄🙄
Guaranteed this means tax cuts for the rich, and a tax increase for the working class... As always with the tories
In fairness Hunt has put up corporation and dividend tax which disproportionately affect the rich, whilst cutting national insurance which affects middle earners.
The Resolution Foundation and IFS show that when you account for the frozen tax thresholds and the cut in NI, everybody is paying more tax apart from those making between £32,000 and £55,000.
So they have helped the middle at the expense of the poor and the rich.
@@dertery8724Putting up corporation tax whilst allowing them to wash profits through shell companies in the Cayman Islands is a bit of an empty platitude really.
@@dertery8724they haven't helped the middle at all. Whilst they gave out obscene amounts of money to their mates during the pandemic were all now paying the price for that sheer incompetence. The rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer, like always. Tax bands on dividends up by a percent yet the allowance has been slashed from £2000, to £1000 and now to £500. Only impacting those small investors. Bunch of crooks.
I'm not Rich but I've had more money in my payslips with the conservatives than ever with Labour.
@@user-ni2tm4id1nprobably because you got a lot older in that time 😂
Youve had 14 years to act conservative and you didnt
14 years keeping us safe from labour. Last Labour government left the country with no money. Still remember those dark times, my child benefits was cut and delayed for 6 months.
@@nimzgaz70492 cheeks of the same arse
They're both puppets of the WEF. A true conservative would lower taxes not give our child benefits like some communist.
@@nimzgaz7049Except back then, you had functioning services and a rights to legal aid... I also question how related your child benefits being disrupted is, as no one else experienced that.
How did Labour leave the country with no money we had 10 year's of record growth under labour ....
@@pip1723 the west in general had growth then, now the west in general is failing. Tory or Labour is irrelevant they are the same.
At least the Tories are sparing no expense on missinformation bot recruitment...
“Our economy is doing worse” I wonder why
These liars always read from their scripts.
Starmer has to read from a script too because he has the charisma of a lettuce 🥬
@@daffyddduck2419
all government puppets do.
yes then put taxes back up when theyre in power calling them tough decision s, we know how it works
NHS pay rises have been so slow that Band 1 is no longer used as it is below the living wage. Band 2 no longer has a pay rise within the band. Band 3 is effectively the same pay as band 2.
In 2024 there is less than £3k between band 2 and band 4 entry points. In 2008 this was almost £5k…..
The Conservatives have destroyed the Economy, NHS and Education! They are paying their workers less now in real terms than ever before. Utter shame on them!
Percentage wage rises always favour the rich. That's what helps to increase the divide between those who have, and those who have little.
Only took them 14 years to deliberate this..
Haha, would anyone expect him to keep a Tory word
Why can't they do them before the election? What have they been doing the past 14 years?
Stealing our money.
Ah.. you see you've worked them out there
Handing out money during covid and giving the poor and useless thousands to help them with the cost of living crisis
@@daffyddduck2419 "poor and useless"? Your implication that the poor are useless is telling but... when they spent that money on food, rent and staying alive who do you think that money went to in the end? So the rich got richer.
Jam tomorrow for the gullible. Very few politicians are conviction politicians. I don’t mind taxation but only when we can actually run the country effectively with the budget supplied. It seems that the answer to poor management is we need more money, in private industry they would be fired.
Who pays for then? Patients? Pensioners? Schoolchildren?
"Tax cuts" - Ordinary people are under the highest tax burden in decades thanks to the Tories.
I wouldn't mind so much if that didn't also mean more money in the pockets of their rich friends and less money for public services.
Jeremy (C)hunt a man you'd never tire of baseball batting
I’ve heard old ladies calling him the C word. And that’s how he’s referred to throughout the NHS.
The policies are fairly similar but it's who we trust to do the job. We cannot trust the Tories who have failed to take responsibility time and time again.
just ask hunt tenant how bad he is who has but up highest taxes sunak and is cronies he is talking a load of bullock's
We don't need tax cuts we need big businesses and the wealthy to be taxed more. We need to stop allowing offshore companies to operate here like betting companies. We need Shell and BP to pay what they took from us at the petrol pumps by taxing them for their windfall instead of allowing them to fictitiously invest in green energy to avoid paying tax. You are a right Hunt Hunt.
So what you're telling me is that you want to decrease investment into the economy?
@@ontologicalpotato 💩
@@ontologicalpotato You think there's been investment into the economy? Ha! That's cute. Look around you for once. The average person's wages have stagnated while prices have shot well out into the distant stars. The only "investment into the economy" there has been has been investment into the back pockets of the wealthy. That's where all that money has went. Our NHS hasn't seen it, our education hasn't seen it, our roads haven't seen it, our house prices haven't seen it, our living standards haven't seen it and our wages haven't seen it. Funny how all these obscene profits that all those companies have been bragging about haven't transferred themselves into making our lives better. Trickle down has been the biggest lie sold in the 20th Century and the most successful scam of all time.
So decrease investment into the U.K. , what a lefty melon you are
@@ontologicalpotato Governments invest not profit greedy corpos
Tax burden at its highest for 70 years, the rich are richer the rest of us poorer, all our public services are grossly underfunded and on their knees. Businesses aren't investing in this country, pension funds put their money in foreign securities rather than invest in Britain. That is what 14 years of tory government have done, do we want more of the same?
If you are taken in by what Mr Hunt has to say you can give yourself the prize of the most gullible person.
So we're going to increase spending and reduce taxes 🤔
The living wage will be £100K, our Rivers will be cleaner and we'll retire at 60 🦄
They’re lying to everyone.
Again.
Who still believes in their garbage ?
Such bs……..his name implies the truth…
We want a functioning country - not sweeteners for an upcoming election
The Chinese spokesperson
Lame accusations
@@haha4581LOL. Nope.
Nice try.
Tories have sucked up to China, Russia and Arab emirates. They couldn’t care less about you.
@@RoofLight00 True
@@RoofLight00 you make it sounds like the Labour will care more about you. They are all the same..........
so Brexit was not a shock, pull the other one.
vote tories out before we all die in poverty his lair too
We heard that one before and look where that got us.
If you cut taxes for those earning under £29,000 a year, then many wouldn’t need UC top ups. Seriously imagine paying £450 in taxes to then get £400 back in UC but you “ must keep them updated “?!
No! Just don’t tax my pay at all, I pay taxes on my bills, shopping and just about everything else.
£400 in UC is really worth at least £1000 due to the free prescriptions, dental checks, eye checks and social tariffs that come from receiving the benefit.
Someone paying £450 in tax but nominally receiving £400 in benefits is much better off than if they paid and received nothing.
@@dertery8724rubbish! I work 48 hours a week for £28k a year and am entitled to NO universal credit. Rent and council tax alone make up 1/2 my pay, in the midlands in a very modest place, where I tackle cold and mould.
I can’t cut back any more. But no help at all is available to me, the law abiding, single, wage slave.
@@woofolliesmydog8628 I never meant to deny the hardship faced by many people who don’t receive Universal Credit. In fact I was really saying the opposite as being entitled to as little as £1 of UC can entitle you to many hundreds of pounds worth of passported benefits, making such a person much better off in practice than if they received no benefit.
The commenter above talked about people earning less than £29,000 a year, but in reality the amount you can earn whilst still claiming UC varies between households with different circumstances. For instance a household with an income of £28k with disabled persons or dependent children would almost certainly receive quite a substantial top up, whereas for a single adult without disabilities the amount you can earn before this support is withdrawn is considerably lower as you receive no Work Allowance and have a lower initial entitlement.
Without intruding into your circumstances I can’t know what category you are in, but it’s certainly possible you may be entitled to some support with the cost of rent up to the amount of Local Housing Allowance, provided your savings aren’t too high (you can only claim means tested benefits if you have less than £16,000 in savings).
Notice the coughing and throat clearing when challenged.
What about the shock of the botched Brexit you guys done
Nothing wrong with Brexit, apart from the THREE YEARS it took to get an agreement.....At high cost to the tax payers of course.
@@user-wf4hy4ub7p you are so uninformed
@@user-wf4hy4ub7p Nothing wrong with Brexit, what about the increase in massive uncontrolled immigration since then!? exactly what most people who voted for Brexit wanted to reduce.
@@jamesmcdowell8742 fOLLOW THE MONEY, who benefits ?. For sure it's not the general public. Who owns most of the land ?.Who needs cheap labour that will work for peanuts ?. It's not the general public. Who owns most of the big bisinesses ? Is it the public or Labour voters ?. Not on your Nelly. Who ends up paying for all this immigration ?. Now THAT is the general public. Who ends up with the anti social behaviour, who ends up losing their homes to immigrants, who ha to clean up the mess ?. It sure isn.'t the Rich, living in their ivory towers, isolated and insulated from the troubles and cares of the world. How many country estates belonging to the rich conservatives are being inundated by potential terrorists ?.Who are supposed to be looking after British interests, yet sends out boats to oick up the infiltrators in their rubber dingys and bring them to England in safety instead of forcing the illegals to go back where they came from, namely France ?. France is a safe haven, why aren't the french responsible for them ?. That's right, it's joe public who picks up the bill. Our taxes are paying the French authorites to prevent the illegals from getting on the dingys, yet seem to be opening up their borders to make it easier for the dingys to get launched. This is not down to Brexit, it;s down to a 14 year rule by a conservative government. Would a Labour government be any better ?. Absolutely not. The only way to bring democracy to parliment is to fill the house with Independnts who can be told what to vote for by the elrctorate, not by party politics and unelected leaders who set the agenda. Long read, I know, but worth thinking about.
A promise is comfort to a fool!
All lies
How you gunna pay for that posh boy?
He ain't, us poor suckers are.
Jeremy, the Berkshire Hunt. Save it, buddy. We've heard it all before.
Good morning, you’re going to lose your seat you hunt.
How can you campaign on fearmongering over accomplishments and plans?
Does he really think we are that stupid?
Yes. The country keep falling for it.
Forget the tax cuts, cut out the mass illegal immigration we will save more money that way.
Not in their interests. More migrants = lower wages for workers & higher rent income for rich multiple home owners.
More like mass legal migration of1. 4 k million , compared to 40k ilegals annually.. Get real, both need to stop
Rishi sunak and his Millionaire and Billionaire mates have impacted your life far more than any immigrant crossing the channel ever has.
Save more money?
It’s costing a million per person so far 😂
@@RoofLight00 and why do you think that is? Into who's pocket does that million go? You and me? Or the super-rich?
To little to late they should cut taxes now and that wouldn't be enough to save there skin
How about more public spending that actually helps people more than your rich friends
Working full time cannot afford rent have to sign on to universal credit the system has failed.
Supply and demand, need to cut the demand for housing.... Unfortunately Labour will increase the demand for housing, crisis to fatal 😢
The hatred I bear for this man's plitics and party is beyond words. I don't know him personally but his words & deeds speak volumes
Like they promised everything else. Yeah right
I think we all know which income bracket will benefit from his tax cuts.
Broadly those in the middle have benefited according to the IFS and Resolution Foundation, with everybody paying more by 2028 than they would under the 2021 tax system except those making between £32,000 and £55,000 a year.
Does he even know what ‘promise’ means? And does he again plan to tax working class more as opposed his thieving buddies,
Completely fails to mention the cuts to services that will be required, also *who* will get the bulk of those cuts. Based on past performance, we already know the latter.
Media aren’t going to ask them for “full costing” I guess
Do they promise to f-off if they lose?
Shameless move & disgrace party ever
Who in the name of Donald Duck is he trying to impress. 🤡
Landlords should bear the tax burden, not hard-working British. I don't like the Cons (many are landlords benefiting from our feudal system), but am also very disappointed Labour didn't offer to lower tax in their six pledges yesterday. Hmm... can't vote against my wallet, can I? The Cons are too cunning
The Cons haven't done a thing to help your wallet in 14 years, they've done everything to hurt it. Don't make the mistake of trusting them to start doing it now or anytime.
Council tax should essentially be an asset based tax on property owners instead of tenants, but when you have so many MPs that are slumlords with vast property portfolios they'll fight tooth and nail against it.
Taxes pay for the upkeep of the country, what else is going to finance severe migration, Labour will increase migration watch and see, need to tax people even more
Jeremy C. Hunt.
The H is silent.
Haw haw haw. 😅 😂
Theey have rewarded their friends. Not once have they mentioned the flow of people coming into the country
They will do what they done late last year. Cut tax by 2% increase national insurance by 2%. Absolute CONMEN
It’s about time the tax brackets rises by about 5-6k at each level! As people clime jobs they don’t see a benefit. The lower limit is now significantly below the living wage, this is unacceptable.
How much is enough ?. Does a millionaires loaf of bread cost any more than a manual workers loaf of bread ?
@@user-wf4hy4ub7p - was not talking in relation to millionaires, was talking about those earning less than £60k. £50k back in mid 2000’s was a good wage. Now it’s not much more than enough for a comfortable living. If living alone, it’s not fantastic.
Please if you plan to vote reform or Liberal Democrat’s. Please don’t do it! Vote Labour so we can at least get the Tories out of power.
Labour are just as bad. Yes they'll get into power but not because the majority of the country actually think they're any better
It's annoying seeing people telling everyone else who to vote for. Just vote for who you want and let them do the same.
@@user-SubvurzIVbut it’s good advice let Labour have their turn and if you don’t like it vote them out but we can’t as a country deal with the conservatives no more. I don’t care if you live in a shed in Burnley or a 4 bedroom house in Essex. You need to vote the conservatives out for your future and your kids’ future. Don’t even wanna vote Labour but I will if it means getting the fake conservatives out
Starmer made ten pledges when he put himself forward for the leader of the Lefty Party and guess what , he abandoned all ten pledges after he became leader .
Who can trust a flippy floppy on anything 😂😂😂
The Tories promised (manifesto promise) to maintain the triple lock and then reneged on it in 2022. So any extra increase that should have been implemented in 2022 is (compound) lost forever.
Who does he think he's fooling? Our taxes are high and that has been under them for 14 years!
I thought mass migration largest in Europe was getting us more economic viable 😂😂😂😂😂
Spell it with a 'C'
Takes £1.00 and gives back £0.01 in the hope of your vote. Tax free annual allowances have been frozen for years and inflation has reduced their real value by at least 50%
Tax free allowance needs to be up to £25k realistically if we want “growth” the tories keep talking about
You had the opportunity to increase the Personal Allowance and increase the tax band thresholds, why didnt you do it? You added 2p NI to remove it a year later
1p of Tax cut (For few Happy onesTaking back 10p from rest of us
Jam tomorrow when the pot is empty because of Tory incompetence. That's got to be a vote winner ........ for Labour.
Tax cuts......decimating public services further
Bribery.. Arrest him!!! should be tax cutting anyway.
🤣🤣🧚🏻♂🦄🤣🤥 after 14 years now they say they'll put things right! yeh went their jobs are on the line, they talk a load of 💩
Tories have got 46 billion national insurance not said where money coming from. 2.5 gdp to defence. Not said where Tories getting money from.
No the working man and women has got this country through....
Zero seat, zero seats, 0
They’re the ones who put taxes up to begin with!! 😂
I would rather they didnt cut my tax and actually got the country in a state where you can see a GP if you need to, fix the pot holes in the roads, fix the crubling schools. Wishful thinking.
is it election time? must be... we hear this every single time. WON'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN, tories think we're stupid.
The man had the nerve to smile and lie at the same time
I don't want tax cuts. I want wealth and the profiteering corporations to be taxed more, loop holes and offshore biznezz stopped and, for my town, 2nd homes to be taxed so that all the Airbnb wankers put something back after mucking up the rental market.
The road tax’s have doubled. Under Tories.
I would not trust anything this man says
I don't trust anything the tories say.
ahahahahahahah we got some cuts for the tories provided by yorkshires finest export
Not interested in 0.5% tax cut
😂😂😂😂😂 they're literally advertising labour....the Tories manifesto is "labour are worse than us"
Tories=Liars
What about pensioners, what is he going to do for pensioners??? since he's been in office, he has done absolutely nothing for them, nothing, the cost of living payments, that they received last year,was what sunak put in place when he was chancellor, this one actually does nothing for people
Hancock kindly freed a lot of them from living and we should praise him because he worked really hard at it apparently.
We need the personal allowance to rise. They froze it. The tories will never be voted in however i fear for us with labour
How are they going to invest in public services?
Lies lies all lies coming from his mouth
I'm gonna humour this clown and say yes! We're doing great. Everyone's pockets are overflowing with spare cash these days and wages are just too high. The cost of groceries is so low we feel like we're ripping off the likes of Tesco. We've never had it this good.
The conservatives are wetting themselves