RE: Calamity starmer, yes I'm a tool(maker)3 Sep 2025 09:12
Nonsense - These many economic woes were purely & squarely caused by the 14yrs of Tory chaos, tory economic strategy wasn't working and the only way they kept the wheels turning for as long as they were able to was via allowing massive uncontrolled immigration (as that helped them to prop up the growth figures - when in reality there was no true growth, it was just greater population figs driving the numbers higher).
The solution isn't Farages snake oil 'net zero migration' - that'll simply bring about immediate insolvency (and is why Farage, despite all his incessant ramblings, will never deliver what he champions- he's just using it to try to get into No.10).
Starmer & Reeves have broadly the correct approach, and that'll show in time. Although, they need to take more from the super wealthy... pocket some for the treasury, and hand much of it out to the masses to drive up real growth. Tax them boomers to the hilt I say! Hear, hear! After all, they're the folks who gained most from voting for the Tory rule, and left the rest of us with decayed services & impoverished communities - so they should be the ones who pay the price π°π
As for CPI, Tory rule did the most to damage many businesses by far! Through their highest tax rises in any modern parliament - national debt soared to Β£2.7trillion under the Tories, extending the credit was how they clung onto power for an unduly long time!
Labour will tidy up the mess the Tories made but it won't be easy and it won't be quickly achieved either (because of the vast extent of Tory damage).
DYOR - IMO