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Huw Pill who attended Whitchurch High in the 1980s is in the news.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/huw-pill/biography
Huw is now Chief Economist at The Bank of England. But he has sparked 'outrage' by suggesting the working poor should accept they are poor and not demand higher pay increases during the cost of living crisis hitting Britain.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12012135/BoE-chief-risks-fury-says-Brits-accept-poorer.html
His remarks were attacked by the leading Church Pastor Mick Fleming who said: "It's quite immoral. That kind of language is immoral. What it does is it splits up societies."
Martin McTague who runs The Federation of Small Businesses also blasted Huw and said the remarks were "astonishingly out of touch" at a time when so many people had absorbed so much pain. Simon French, Chief Economist at Panmure Gordon, even offered Huw (who studied at Oxford and was a Professor at Harvard) advice on public relations. "Don''t say it - economists need to engage their brain before opening mouth."
In a bad day for Huw he was then attacked by television presenter Andrew Pierce and just laughed at by Christine Hamilton - the wife of former Conservative Minister Neil Hamilton. She described Huw's remarks as "crass", "terrible" and "ghastly" and said our Huw sounded like a member of "the out-of-touch elite" who had lost contact with ordinary working-class people. Indeed Christine was so incensed she nominated Huw for The GB News 2023 Jackass Of The Year Award.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWIQ7WT9ro
However don't feel too sorry for old Huw. He is currently living in £1.5m mansion in a London suburb and earning £200,000 each year at Bank. All thanks to his seven years at Whitchurch High School! Thereby answering question which Christine herself often asks: "Where on Earth do they find these people?"