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Jeremy Hunt is a cycle campaigner

And he isn't phased by angry drivers bleating about cycle lanes.https://www.bordonherald.com/news/politics/jeremy-hunt-is-cycling-one-answer-to-pollution-problem-194976"The other big change has been the gradual introduction of cycle lanes giving to cyclists their own safe space. This is usually cursed loudly by taxi drivers – and indeed all drivers. I drive occasionally in London and completely understand the frustration.But if cycle lanes persuade more people to abandon their cars, as well as being good for the environment, it also eases congestion. Boris signed off on a lot of new cycle lanes just before he stepped down as London mayor – we are just seeing the results come to fruition and as a result it has become a positive pleasure to cycle along the Embankment, seeing London’s great sights.Initially, few of us used the new cycle lanes but then they started to get busier, used by as many as 6,000 cyclists a day. Imagine the pollution from 6,000 cars instead.The lesson is that although it took time to change habits, it has started to happen, making London cleaner, greener and much more pleasant."

Paul Campbell ● 1437d26 Comments

Now the job comes with a car

Julian Pavey ● 1437d

Well found! That’s very encouraging. The Chancellor writes:“We are lucky to have a brilliant local cycling group, Farnham Cycling Campaign… pressing to make sure any transformation of the town centre encourages a decisive shift to cycling.”The Chancellor can be expected to be supportive of LCC’s and HCC’s similar efforts in London and Chiswick.

Tom Pike ● 1437d

I doubt he will be in the post long enough if trust is removed. Those plotting have other names in mind for the 2 jobs.

Julian Pavey ● 1437d

Who heard Miriam Margolyes on R4 this morning? She only said what so many of us think!

Vanessa Smith ● 1436d

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David Lesniak ● 1436d

Jeremy Hunt is a Jeremy Hunt!

Brian Green ● 1436d

How about Rachel Reeves?

Bruce Hammal ● 1436d

At least Rachel Reeves has all her brain cells in operational mode, plus her background is finance and economics.

Vanessa Smith ● 1436d

Last year Rachel Reeves announced Labour’s Green Deal, with proposed spending of £28bn that included investment in wind energy, home insulation and cycle paths.  With the previous government setting up Active Travel England, there’s now an opportunity to see consistent significant investment to shift travel to a more sustainable basis.

Tom Pike ● 1436d

Boris Johnson, Andrew Gilligan, Julian Bell, Peter Mason and now Jeremy Hunt. Odd how these cycling ultras are such repellent individuals. Must go with the territory.Jimmy Savile was a keen cyclist too. Just fancy that!

Simon Hayes ● 1436d

What. The same Hunt who had the stand off with Junior Doctors asking for decent pay and conditions. The same hunt who ignored warnings that if a pandemic hit, we were sorely unprepared. He's a cyclist? That's OK then.

Stephen Gould ● 1436d

Burke by name........not a cycliphobe, just dislike preachy morons.

Simon Hayes ● 1436d

Well, you generally accuse everyone you don't agree with or who doesn't agree with you as gaslighting you.

Philippa Bond ● 1436d

No, Phillipa. You need to look up the term gaslighting. It’s a well used trick by the cycling lobbyists to try to insinuate that you said something you didn’t.I’m sure you know that.

Simon Hayes ● 1436d

Jeremy Hunt intends to sell off the NHS. I don’t care if he rides a bike or not

Stewart Jones ● 1436d

He was the longest serving Minister for Health...

Philippa Bond ● 1436d

Hunt was health minister from 2012 to 2018. In that time he mange to completely wreck the NHS, by awarding large contracts to  private company’s and falsely blamed an older  generation of bed blocking while it was his policy of running down social care that partly to blame.He even suggested that people should make their own provision  for their social care needs.This man shouldn’t even be in government let alone be in charge of the nations purse strings.This is a long but detailed article about the ex health minister  that any one with an ongoing condition, heading into the older age group should read, and it may enlighten you as to why you didn’t get the treatment you desperately needed a few years ago.https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/jeremy-hunt-tory-leadership-boris-johnson-nhs-junior-doctors/

Bernard Allen ● 1436d

The same Jeremy Hunt who apologised for failing to declare the purchase of seven flats and breaking money laundering laws because he ‘forgot’, yet remembered to claim 27p for a half mile car journey and charged the taxpayer for his milk and biscuits….

Stewart Jones ● 1436d

Younger people too should read more on this too as they expect the NHS to fix everything throughout their lives.  When things go wrong with private care patients are shipped off to the NHS because of lack of equipment and expertise in A&E.  Many older people are still not aware that they can be expected to pay for their care in their old age and/or that the payments for private care can become too costly.  It's something most people won't find out until it happens.Keeping healthy with active travel for as long as you can will help to keep you well.  There are all sorts of different and legal cycles on the market and many can be tried out in local parks.  There are also ways of getting funding too.  It is not a case of  necessarily having to give up because of an injury - just look at all those cyclists taking part in the paralympics!  Check out Wheels for Wellbeing, Cycling for All and Local Council websites.  A month or two again a bloke passed us on a  recumbent.  Stop thinking or believing those who tell you it is only possible for those in lycra because it is not true.

Philippa Bond ● 1436d

Gaslighting doesn't mean having a different opinion or view on a matter.  All of which are subject to change depending on circumstances and knowledge which can also change.

Philippa Bond ● 1436d

Do you know that JH had  restricted cataract operations down to one eye only.His opinion of the human race is very poor, he blame the failing on the NHS as down to an ageing population, you can almost hear him  saying “why do older people need two eyes” The nurse never got there 3% pay rise they ended up with a much smaller amount and the head of the nurses union resigned over recommending the agreement. The man’s a liability and should not hold any  ministerial position , if your elderly with a long term condition you can find yourself dead before your time with people like him about.Where are the Local matrons and social care nurses promised? None, Chiswick has only one and as staff leave they are note replaced

Bernard Allen ● 1436d

You're obviously confusing my name with the origin of the rhyming slang term - "Berkeley Hunt " Only too pleased to be of help.

David Burke ● 1436d

“Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone so as to make them question their own reality”. It’s extremely nasty and practised by some very prominent people

Maggie Dodge ● 1436d

It says something about the paucity of intelligent bodies on the government benches that we get a prat like Hunt as Chancellor. We've had a Tory government for 12 years give or take - and we had austerity forced on us for much of that time, a complete sh*t-show where public services have been wrecked, meanwhile those at the top have continued to line their pockets off the back of those at the bottom, and to fight for power, only for the country to go full circle and land back in the crap yet again! Yet still they ask for more time and come up with more schemes, not one of these clowns has an ounce of integrity. Truss at least could salvage some little respect by resigning and taking the whole sorry bunch down with her via a general election.

Vanessa Smith ● 1436d