The Government need to stop blaming everybody but themselves.
When will Keir wake up and face the facts? (Image: Getty)
The International Monetary Fund (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.
Add to that the rate of unemployment has risen from 4.4 per cent to 4.9 per cent since Labour came to power and 276,000 jobs have been lost since last year’s disastrous budget, and those promises of “growth” ring increasingly hollow. Prior to the election I warned of Labour’s historic financial incompetence.
But they have achieved something: their disastrous stewardship of the economy has outstripped everyone’s worst fears. And having blamed everything from the Conservatives, to Brexit, Covid, the war in Ukraine and Reform UK, presumably the next cause will be “leaves on the line?”
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Well done the Competition and Markets Authority after it called for a fundamental change in how vets operate – and charge.
With our emotions running wild as we see our beloved pets in pain, rationality is often shelved. Making vets – particularly those run by conglomerates – adhere to pricing structures would be a piece of Animal Magic.
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Let’s 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.
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How come France got rid of two Prime Ministers this year, and we can’t get shot of one?
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Inbetweeners set to return to our screens next year (Image: Getty)
Heartening news that a return of the hilarious TV comedy The Inbetweeners appears to be on the way.
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’s ludicrous mores of censorship.
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’s current crop of humour – which is no laughing matter whatsoever.
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At what point does the shame become too much to bear? The grotesquely dissembling Baroness Mone and her seemingly equally repugnant husband Doug Barrowman last week missed a High Court deadline to pay back £145 million for a contract for dud gear during the pandemic, plus interest.
On the day they dodged payment, it was announced hospices catering for children and young people would benefit from government funds of £80 million, but to be spread over THREE years.
Some figures put the couple’s combined wealth in excess of £500 million. This deceitful duo must accept that both the time is up – and they must cough up.
