{"id":511014,"date":"2025-10-19T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/511014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:54:11","slug":"keir-starmer-and-whole-of-no-10-and-11-should-be-rattled-by-grim-imf-findings-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/511014\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer and whole of No 10 and 11 should be rattled by grim IMF findings | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Monetary Fund<\/a> (IMF) published findings last week that should rattle everyone inside Numbers 10, 11 and elsewhere in Whitehall. Of the seven G7 economies, we are bottom in living standards and the worst for an anticipated hike in inflation. In projected growth, we only beat the spectacularly dented European economies of France and Germany and are markedly behind both the US and Canada.<\/p>\n

Add to that the rate of unemployment<\/a> has risen from 4.4 per cent to 4.9 per cent since Labour<\/a> came to power and 276,000 jobs have been lost since last year\u2019s disastrous budget, and those promises of \u201cgrowth\u201d ring increasingly hollow. Prior to the election I warned of Labour\u2019s historic financial incompetence.<\/p>\n

But they have achieved something: their disastrous stewardship of the economy has outstripped everyone\u2019s worst fears. And having blamed everything from the Conservatives<\/a>, to Brexit<\/a>, Covid<\/a>, the war in Ukraine<\/a> and Reform UK, presumably the next cause will be \u201cleaves on the line?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Well done the Competition and Markets Authority after it called for a fundamental change in how vets<\/a> operate \u2013 and charge.<\/p>\n

With our emotions running wild as we see our beloved pets in pain, rationality is often shelved. Making vets \u2013 particularly those run by conglomerates \u2013 adhere to pricing structures would be a piece of Animal Magic.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s get something straight: Birmingham City Council are unable to empty rubbish bins but can ban visiting football fans and let threats of potential lawlessness triumph. Discuss.<\/p>\n

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How come France got rid of two Prime Ministers this year, and we can\u2019t get shot of one?<\/p>\n

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Heartening news that a return of the hilarious TV comedy The Inbetweeners appears to be on the way.<\/p>\n

But, as a fully signed up fan of the bawdy, juvenile, smutty, uncensored humour that ran through every episode, can I beseech the writers to NOT yield to today\u2019s ludicrous mores of censorship.<\/p>\n

The show worked because it is at the level of fifth form gossip and innuendo. Elevating it above that would render it as funny as all of today\u2019s current crop of humour \u2013 which is no laughing matter whatsoever.<\/p>\n

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At what point does the shame become too much to bear? The grotesquely dissembling Baroness Mone<\/a> and her seemingly equally repugnant husband Doug Barrowman last week missed a High Court deadline to pay back \u00a3145 million for a contract for dud gear during the pandemic, plus interest.<\/p>\n

On the day they dodged payment, it was announced hospices catering for children and young people would benefit from government funds of \u00a380 million, but to be spread over THREE years.<\/p>\n

Some figures put the couple\u2019s combined wealth in excess of \u00a3500 million. This deceitful duo must accept that both the time is up \u2013 and they must cough up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published findings last week that should rattle everyone inside Numbers 10, 11 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,1700,167109,16484,807,528,16,10051,16919,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-511014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-imf-findings","11":"tag-job-market","12":"tag-keir-starmer","13":"tag-labour-party","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-uk-economy","16":"tag-unemployment-rate","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115398814269434627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511014","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=511014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}