{"id":398631,"date":"2025-09-05T00:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398631\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:43:20","slug":"britain-needs-to-invest-in-itself-now-before-the-21st-century-leaves-it-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398631\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain needs to invest in itself now \u2014 before the 21st century leaves it behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These aren\u2019t the numbers of a confident, world-leading nation. The economy is growing, but only just. Businesses are paralysed, families feel stuck and everyday life shows it: littered streets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/environment\/campaigners-simon-johnson-england-lake-district-government-b1243521.html\" title=\"Citizen science water tests reveal \u2018really concerning\u2019 pollution in Windermere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polluted rivers<\/a>, unaffordable bills, energy costs still rising. There are moments it is hard to believe Britain is still a prosperous country. That is the true cost of politicians\u2019 inaction \u2014 a country that feels like it\u2019s standing still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These aren\u2019t the numbers of a confident, world-leading nation. The economy is growing, but only just. Businesses are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,1700,393,1234,4884,16220,137586,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-398631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-investors","16":"tag-john-caudwell","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148922104355759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}