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Is The IMF taking Over perhaps just what the country needs

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WaitingInForMyFoodShopping · 01/09/2025 08:55

Ok bear with me. This sounds like an idiotic thing to say because if the IMF are involved it means the country is officially in a mess and the IMF will slash spending and enforce their own budgets and rules. So anyone on benefits might lose them, NHS funding will likely go down, same for the police force etc

It just occurred to me today that the country is in a complete mess and there isn't really any end in sight.

Headlines today - I didn't read the detail but I am just getting more angry, helpless feeling and frustrated and want 'somebody' who has some balls to step in and say enough. Things change from today. Todays headlines are rising taxes, 1/10 high school kids on benefits, families of migrants can claim benefits from day 1 even if they don't speak english.

Now i will caveat this by saying the housing market does need sorted but lets be honest that's not what they are trying to do here - it's just about raising taxes. I also say there is another articles claiming ' a crackdown on bring families into Britain' - something that made me snort with derision giving the whole small boats/protests going on just now.

I mean lets just get to the point. Does ANYONE think RR/KS are able to fix this mess. I know they didn't cause it. I know they have been in office less than a year but if we give them another year are they able to fix it. I personally don't think so. It is going to need someone very tough to brave the mess and take it in hand (Maggie Thatcher where are you now).
So what are we left with - voting Reform - which I have joked about doing but i don't actually think that is the way to go. That's borne out of desperation. So who is going to fix it then.

AIBU to think a complete reset, painful as it will be by the IMF is just what the country needs?

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SerendipityJane · 01/09/2025 11:11

I heard that the IMF are going to invade and that the pound will be scrapped and the new currency will be an St. Georges flag for £5 and a Union jack flag for £10. Change will be issued in vape cartridges.

Then I changed channel.

JacquesHarlow · 01/09/2025 11:08

I read this slowly and carefully @WaitingInForMyFoodShopping

Then I read it again...

Honestly, what in the name of GCSE economics is this all about?

ScholesPanda · 01/09/2025 11:06

Maybe expanding your reading beyond one newspaper (which hates the Labour party and always has) might help your anxiety?

LlynTegid · 01/09/2025 09:08

The IMF will not become involved at all, indeed only became so in the 1970s because of poor economic forecasting.

A change of chancellor at some point may happen though.

WaitingInForMyFoodShopping · 01/09/2025 09:05

And I'd just like to add I know I will 'suffer' if this happens and i still think it might be the best thing for us.

I'm not on any benefits but I'll be affected by pension age getting raised which it almost certainly will.

I can't get a doctors appointment and this is unlikely to get better.

So I just thought I'd add that in to the post before the backlash of complaining about benefits being cut etc.

I honestly just don't think RR/KS are ABLE/competent/have the skills to be able to fix it.

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