Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt, our dim-witted Chancellor and a man born into absolute privilege, claimed that unemployment is now a “lifestyle choice” in the UK. He presumably believes that areas like the northeast of England, which never recovered from Thatcherite destruction, are simply populated by the lazy. The part of Gateshead that I grew up in has been lost to decay and despair, with the installation of surveillance cameras the only area of growth — three photographs from a sad evening walk…