John Davis

But the thing for me about Starmer is, before we get into it, is the fact that he inherited a mess from, I know that's the old excuse, but he is trying to pick it apart.

And it's not always working for him.

And everything was grey.

Yeah.

And all the other central banks follow the Fed.

Well, they seem to be kind of rolling back on a lot of their big spending, whether it's the line, the Nome,

But one of the plus points of Brexit that, you know, the UK public were told was that you'll have more independence when it comes to things like setting interest rates and stuff.

Yes.

So they have more control.

As opposed to, say, Ireland, where we are kind of stuck with the ECB.

Whatever the ECB say, we have to follow along.

But they have independence now to set their interest rates and therefore have technically more control over their inflation.

Yeah, I remember when Rachel Reeves said that, it was kind of like, oh, really?

Are you sure?

Yeah, because the kind of the default government for the UK is the Conservatives.

Has always been, yeah.

But he was just a good spin doctor and, you know, had a bit of character about him, but delivered nothing.

But it's also with the backdrop of, you know, now the war in Iran, but prior to that was immigration, Trump, and Trump kind of lobbing in bombs,

you know, metaphorical bombs every so often and criticising this and criticising that, you know, and the tariffs and, you know, everything.

So he's kind of up against it.