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Sir Keir Starmer CURRENT PM

Discussion in 'Current Affairs' started by johnnyT, Apr 29, 2020.

  1. StretfordEnd

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    Reportedly Starmer hasn't been invited to President Musk's inauguration. :dunce:
     
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    End of the 'Special Relationship'
     
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    At least he doesn't want us to be the 51st state.
     
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    I don't think that the Prime Minsters of China, India, Germany, France, Italy, Spain or even Canada will be there - although I gather the Prime Minster of Alberta might be going.

    This is the sort of gig we pay Charlie for as Head of State isn't it? That said, I suspect that him and Camilla will probably have a Yoga weekend booked or be shooting stags in Scotland - although they might word the RSVP different..
     
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    Yeah when was the last time a PM attended a President's inauguration?

    the answer it turns out is never.
     
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    #2646 Super_horns, Jan 14, 2025
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    Jumping rather than pushed.
     
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    While she wasn't deemed to have broken any rules, at least from what I've read this afternoon, she certainly didn't get a clean bill of health from the ethics adviser either. Her resignation is still a marked contrast to the dig in and damn the impact approach to rule breaking of the previous administration, though.
     
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    That was the first thing that occurred to me too.
     
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    Anti corruption minister resigns due to er corruption. Labour, the gift that keeps on giving :laugh:
     
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    Or doing the right thing? We've become used to corrupt ****ers holding on to powerful jobs in this country so we naturally presume everyone would rather cling on until its jump or be pushed
     
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    Feels like Labour have managed to ride out a storm post-budget. They didn't have a honeymoon at all and that is probably fine. Voters will vote with their wallet at the next election. If they manage to improve the economy then they'll stay in power, it is as simple as that.

    My view is that Labour need to seek out tax revenues as opposed to cutting spending moving forward. Even if it does harm them in the polls. Do it sooner rather than later and the economy and services will be stable and people will forget the tax "betrayal".

    IMF upgrades UK growth forecast and takes swipe at Trump plans

    The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its forecast for UK growth this year in an update to its biannual assessment of the global economy, while taking a swipe at plans by Donald Trump’s incoming US administration for the potentially destabilising effect of large-scale tax cuts, import tariffs and weaker regulations.

    In a fillip to the Labour government, the Washington-based organisation said it expected the UK economy to grow by 1.6% in 2025, up from an earlier forecast of 1.5%.

    The IMF judged that Labour’s increase in investment spending, improved household finances and a series of interest rate cuts by the Bank of England would give the UK economy a lift, after growing by 0.9% in 2024 according to the fund’s expectations.


    The UK upgrade was in contrast to the eurozone, where the IMF revised down its forecasts for growth in 2025 in Germany, France and Italy.

    Analysts at the IMF said they believed the Bank of England would cut interest rates four times this year, reducing the headline rate from 4.75% to 3.75%.

    Until last week, financial markets were betting on only two rate cuts, though a fall in inflation to 2.5% and figures showing weak retail sales before Christmas have increased the odds of at least three reductions this year.

    A spokesperson for the IMF said Labour’s budget rules showed the government was committed to bringing down the UK debt over the longer term.

    The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said: “The UK is forecast to be the fastest growing major European economy over the next two years and the only G7 economy, apart from the US, to have its growth forecast upgraded for this year.
     
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    Rachel Reeves has been doing the rounds of breakfast news shows this morning repeating her bare-faced lie that 'no new runways have been built in this country since the 1940s'. Utter drivel and why aren't her advisors telling her she's at best mistaken? Has Swampy really been forgotten?

    'For a Northern MP, Rachel Reeves showed a startling lack of knowledge'
     
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    It's the economy and immigration. People have to feel better off than then felt in 2024 and have faith that things are going in the right direction. And they have to have achieved something tangible with immigration and reduced the number of boats arriving, reduced the number of people housed in hotels and increased deportations. If they don't achieve on both of those issues they'll be out next election, or at least be in a messy coalition or minority government.
     
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    She's incompetent, what do you expect?

    She should be sacked.
     
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    Rachel from customer services is so dense and uninformed she is so out of her depth.
     
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    What a government we've got . . . :no:
     
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    I agree with expanding Heathrow. But then also this is the UK so we won't see the new runway (if approved) for a decade at least.

    Have seen it mentioned there's other ways to deal with capacity that is easier to introduce.
     
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    It does need expanding but it needed expanding decades ago. It's been talked about forever but always gets nowhere because it gets blocked by endless legal challenges and the costs and timescales become too expensive and too long and it ends up getting scrapped. The same will happen again, costs are many times more expensive than they were in the many previous failed attempts and it'll again get ditched because it's too expensive and too much hassle. If it couldn't get done in the past l, it definitely won't get done now with the modern hugely inflated construction and legal costs and even more powerful environmental lobby.

    It's the reason why nothing ever gets done in this country. HS2 was a good idea at the start but the endless legal challenges combined with inflating construction costs eventually meant that the costs spiralled out of control and it got watered down so much that it wasn't worth doing any more. Governments should have more power to just be able to get these national infrastructure projects done without so much time and money wasted in endless legal challenges.
     

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