UK economy will ‘struggle’ to grow more than one per cent in 2025

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1. > The UK economy will “struggle” to grow by any more than one per cent this year, according to EY, a significant downgrade on its previous round of forecasts and a major blow to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

   I guess if EY say so it must be true.

2. Given how 2025 is shaping up just treading water might be better than everyone else. Christ what a year last month has been.

3. Ah yes the EY club. They have been wrong about every single forecast to date – having to alter their last forecast in October! And you have to ask what’s in it for them? It’s a political motivated group who support the tories …. So this is another form of labour bashing.

4. We don’t need more talk about ‘growth’, what we need is talks about public services, not fucking corpos. We need Starmer to stop being a pussy, we need them to stop twiddling their thumbs and doing apparently absofuckinglutely shit all. We need them to stop selling weapons to murderers of innocent children
   We need them to tell Trump to go fuck himself. Call Elon a nazi and ban him from the UK. We need them to end the privatisation of water and energy. We need them to be Labour, not the cuntservatives with a different cast.

   We need them to pull their fingers out of their arses and do ANYTHING. Just stop going ass to mouth with corpos and remember their supposed to be employed by us, the people, not by share holders.

5. If we can stop the water companies dealing out obscene bonuses whilst pumping shit into the waterways, stop the train operators benefitting from bailout money so they can negotiate contracts without losing revenue from strikes and fill some potholes, I’ll happily take it.

6. Starmer will continue to ignore the elephant in the room….

7. The UK needs to focus on improving productivity and being business-friendly. We need a proper industrial strategy, which is designed to be iterated into the future and takes some long-term themes like education and infrastructure investment.

   Building millions of new homes, taxing corporations punitively, a third Heathrow runway, adding millions more immigrants, and buying solar farms from China ain’t going to sod all for our economy unless it’s all joined up.

8. In 2024 it was 0.3, this year is 1% next year,I can only assume: 9%, this pattern looks promising

9. That’s actually better than what the EU block has been doing, though probably doenst make up for the trillions leaving has cost in the first place

10. yeah, but some thick cunt down the pub thinks he got his sovereignty back, so there is that, right?

11. Just as we had slight growth, markets took a tumble due too Orange Orangutan’s tariffs

12. Rach from complaints has got it all worked out.

    0% growth and businesses closing on mass….oh and an open border policy.

13. Inflation higher than growth again, going backwards

14. If Starmer manages to massively reduce immigration and not have negative growth I’ll be impressed tbh. 

15. All those policies that encourage growth not working? Oh wait, we don’t have of those.

16. Part of the problems we have are caused by a focus on short term growth, instead of building infrastructure to create growth in the long-term.

17. Am I the only one who doesn’t give a shit about the economy? All that does is help the rich get richer and the rest of us get fucked either way.

18. An intelligent Westminster-Brussels plan would be to use the UK as a trade point between the US and the EU.

    Trump is tariffing the EU, Canada, Mexico, your Dad, but he isn’t tariffing the UK.

    He has some weird level of anglophilia which we would be wise to consider.

19. Invested in a UK based pie on trading 212 about 6 months ago.

    Sold it recently. It’s doing nothing. Better off investing elsewhere

20. More taxes and more immigrants will surely fix this, right?

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