Here’s a man who thinks so and who intends to fight to capture the Godalming & Ash parliamentary seat.
‘Waverley’s leader Paul Follows describes in the video below the Chancellor’s latest budget as cynical.
However, the modestly funded young Lib Dem Cllr Paul Follows will be financially disadvantaged. Jeremy Hunt has given over £100,000 to the local Tory party to capture or, should it be, to buy the seat.
Mr Hunt has been accused of dishing out personal cheques to prolong his political career while telling others to clamp down on waste. He says local authorities’ profligacy has led to their financial problems—not Government cuts.
Official records show that Jeremy Hunt has been forced to contribute more than £100,000 of his own money to his constituency Conservative party to bolster his re-election chances amid warnings that he is set to lose his seat.
Hunt’s Godalming and Ash constituency is a target seat for the Liberal Democrats, and a Survation poll projects that he is on course to become the first chancellor in modern times to lose at a general election. Chancellor’s Commission records show he has given £105,261 to the South-West Surrey Conservative Association over the last five years.
The Chancellor’s personal donations to the association under the last three Conservative prime ministers stand in stark contrast to the total £4,447 he gifted under the leadership of Theresa May and David Cameron.
The most recent accounts for Hunt’s local association have warned that its
“balance sheet is at a less than satisfactory level”.
A note stated that members’ annual subscriptions were due to increase this year, and donations were down by almost 50% in 2021. South West Surrey received only £42,693 in donations that year, down from £80,000 in 2020. The two Tory constituencies of SW Surrey & Guildford have now merged.
Oh Dear,
So it’s totally wrong for a successful businessman to guide our country’s economic recovery in these difficult times when Waverley Council has overseen the disasterous decline in our high streets like Godalming. The solution was of course to increase car parking charges, does Liz Townsend believe this is a positive move and if so do our beleaguered Chambers agree?
Jim Edwards (Anne Gray your spelling gives you away)) Parking charges? Is that it? Our country has descended into economic meltdown at the hands of successive Conservative Chancellors, amid successive lies, scandals, strikes, resignations, broken pledges, inquiries and ineptitude. And you can only come up with parking charges as a reason for everyone to vote Conservative? That was £100,000 well spent.
Absolutely spot on. Jim Edwards would like us all to concentrate on the minute of car parking charges during the economic meltdown we have endured at the hands of Jeremy Hunt and his mates at the Tory counting house. Presumably, in the vain hope we have selective memories of all that has brought us to where we are today.
Why has Waverley web not shown comments on the unfounded and nasty comment suggesting that Jeremy Hunt might have “ bought his seat”? You also have not shown my comment and request that the allegation and post should be withdrawn
We have not received any comment from you on that subject – the WW never remove comments. You are mistaken. WW
I am hopeful the sands are running out for this whole unelected Tory Government who have caused our country so much harm.
Thank goodness for a government that did not lock down as much as Keir Starmer wanted it to and which is now doing a good but unpopular job of recovering from the pandemic and from the Ukraine oil and energy price shock and by getting inflation down and getting the UK borrowings under control. Importantly it has also increased the child care so that mothers can go back to work more easily.
Strange you have not mentioned the elephant in room “Brexit “ the worst Tory failure causing the bulk of our present problems.
Yeah. But Brexit was voted for by the electorate.
Only after a vast lying campaign in support by Boris Johnson and his supporters, it was also not a statutory referendum but just an advisory one, therefore it was not compulsory that the government of the day took the actions they did on such a narrow margin.
I simply cannot cannot believe that anyone in their right mind would consider voting for that chocolate teapot LibDem candidate over Jeremy Hunt who is a great MP and works hard for his constituents. If he gets in we will be the worse for it.
Only time will tell Nemo.