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So... what youre actually saying -- your precise words -- is that the UK will be better-off on US tariffs than the EU. That's yet another great win for Brexit 👍

And, let's be honest -- any bad tariff or other news from Trump for the UK is entirely due to Labour. When you're recklessly gifting a giant US airbase to China (via Mauritius), using the UK police apparatus to threaten US citizens with arrest for typing hurty words, and using international courts to witch-hunt US allies for confected war crimes, you really cannot be surprised when Trump gets a bit grumpy. Labour has done nothing but try to humiliate Trump relentlessly for the past decade, right up to the present day. You reap what you sow 👍

It's time for Rachel from Complaints to step down. The wildly dodgy CV, the worst budget this century, talking down the UK economy all the time. It has to stop. It's not fair on the British people. Time to go.

Depressing to see the UK deliver a truly world-first, world-class product in a high-tech, high-R&D, high-skill, high-manufacturing, high-value, high-price, high-wage, future high-profit, high-growth industry... but nobody in the UK media, TV, vlogger, analyst, banking, pension, investor, private investor, VC, or govt bubble could give a flying sh*t about it.

If Elon had launched it as Musk Pet Meat, we'd all be going wild about it, and talking of a new trillion-dollar pet-food and (eventually) fast-food industry. ANIC's share price would already be north of 100p.

Having said that, they haven't exactly aced it with the brand name. Its brand "Meatly" is a bit dull, and hard to get excited about. They need to call it something like Rocket Petfood or MegaMeat. Supercharge your pooch.

..."Prediction is hard ... hindsight is easy"...

It doesn't take a genius to work out that a stock which has halved in 7 years, plunged by a third since Covid (while the S&P 500 has doubled!), is heavily invested in overpriced India and basket-case China, and whose stock price today is back where it was at the turn of the century, is probably going to be a disaster investment!

There's no excitement here! KDR have been "looking" for sparklers since the last century -- and still have zero commercial output to show for it. The shareprice has collapsed -99.9% since launch.

Nope.

It's time to stop those falsehoods.

The UK economy under the Tories outgrew Germany, France, Italy and the Eurozone since Brexit. Global exports hit an all-time record high, after Brexit. The UK soared past France to become the world's 4th largest exporter, after Brexit. UK unemployment sat at or near a record low, for the Tory and Brexit era. The UK, after Brexit, was the world's fastest-growing G7 major economy for 2021, 2022 and early 2024. UK was the no.1 fastest-growing G7 economy worldwide in H1 2024.

Come 2025, under Labour, unemployment is soaring back up, the country is more or less in recession, and fear about the future is everywhere. For example, will our pensions and ISAs even survive the Marxist onslaught. The atmosphere in the UK had changed -- dramatically. Hope has become despair.

Never understand why folks trust the ONS stats, at all. Their past record of tracking, modelling and forecasting is appalling. They are rubbish. A heavily left-leaning, tiny corner of the state apparatus, they've clearly done Labour a favour here and posted the smallest "positive" GDP number they can get away with. Unemployment is going up, tax is going up, inflation is going up, prices are going up, sentiment surveys are going down -- they are classic signs of recession and shrinkage and worker inactivity (not growth). As others have said, expect these Q4 2024 stats to be quietly revised down later this year 📉

Canada has long put 200-300% tariffs on US agricultural imports, such as butter and milk. The EU has just slapped 27-45% tariffs on Chinese EV cars. Canada and the EU (thanks to Trump) are starting to taste their own tariff medicine 👍

Socialists do not understand economics. If they did, they would not be socialists.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of spending other people's money.

Wise words, from wise folk.

Elon Musk has now cut $4 billion a day from the US national govt spending budget for 2026... it's taken him 2 weeks...

Musk has cut govt spending (effortlessly) by $1 trillion -- in a couple of weeks.

This is urgently what the UK needs -- our own Department of Govt Efficency (DOGE). Start by lowering council tax by -20%, for example. Give the people their money back.

The talk now is of a "manufacturing collapse" and "retail bloodbath" in the UK in 2025. Unemployment and business closures are starting to soar, like the red 1970s. JCB, Ineos, Hoover, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Quiz, Lakeland, WH Smith, the list of misery is getting longer and longer every day. This is a crisis made by No.10. We are plunging into reeves-cession.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14336293/More-10-000-high-street-jobs-risk-UK-retail-bloodbath-fashion-chain-Quiz-brink-collapse.html

Yup, the Labour Party and its unique brand of stealth-Marxism launched in 1900 -- and it's been downhill for the UK ever since.

Nvidia has lost half-a-trillion dollars in 2 hours...

Nvidia crashing -15%.

Nasdaq sinking -3%.

The US AI bubble has a hole in it.

This is one of the world's biggest tech stories this century. A tech earthquake. Surprised there is not more commentary here. DeepSeek of China last week matched ChatGPT for AI complexity -- on old chips -- at -99% lower cost. Assuming it's true (some don't believe it), this could mark the end of the US AI stockmarket bubble. Nasdaq futures today are currently slumping -3%. DeepSeek could even mark the end of Silicon Valley itself.

London has a veto over Greenland, and can stop America buying it, due to a 1917 treaty. That's why Trump is suddenly sucking up to Starmer.

And WH Smith -- quitting the UK high street after a quarter of a millennium.

UK now is not just going post-industrial and zero-industrial, it's going post-retail.

..."As soon as Rachel turns the economy around we'll be flying"...

Last week, Ineos closed its big ethanol plant in Grangemouth, Scotland, with its chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe warning of "the extinction of our major industries". The previous month, Airbus announced it is cutting 500 UK jobs. In October, JCB cut 230 UK jobs. In July, Dyson said it was cutting a third of its British workforce. In recent months, Vauxhall has closed British plants (England), the steelworks at Port Talbot (Wales) have been consigned to history, as has the appliance maker Hotpoint, which shut a factory in Bristol in October, leaving a century of history behind.

Major global companies -- fleeing the UK since Labour entered No.10 just a few months ago. Net-zero fanatics in the Cabinet, the world's most expensive electricity, nearly the world's most expensive petrol and diesel, a minimum wage wildly out of control, employer taxes wildly out of control, employee taxes wildly out of control, red tape wildly out of control, green tape wildly out of control, local council taxes wildly out of control, local council power wildly out of control, on and on and on it goes.

British manufacturing -- which had been broadly stable at around 8 per cent of GDP -- today faces a full-scale collapse.

It's depressing stuff. America's future talks about going to Mars, reusable space rockets, buying the biggest island on Earth, while developing quantum AI as the fastest compute mankind has ever seen. Britain's future talks about stacking a few bricks on top of each other, and laying a strip of tarmac just outside Slough. It's not just depressing, it's downright embarrassing.

Yes, the UK outlook for 2025 is grim and grimmer. Unemployment is rising. Job hires are falling. GDP is sliding. Petrol, diesel and electricity prices are leaping. There is the huge NI tax hike to come in April. The enormous council tax hikes to come from April. Less jobs, less disposable cash, more tax, more costs, more fear. The outlook is grim.