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PREVIEW: Brokenomics | Britain goes to the IMF?

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Dan consider the recent spate of articles suggesting that Britain and France may need a bailout from the international monetary fund.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello and welcome to Broanomics.

0:29.3

Now, British politics is getting mildly interesting this week because there's lots of speculation

0:34.3

that we might be forced to go to the IMF. The international monetary funds for bailout

0:39.6

because our government has been so completely profligate

0:42.6

that it is run out of money yet again.

0:45.7

They do have a tendency of doing this quite a lot.

0:49.7

There's also the Angela Rainer stuff going on.

0:53.6

So at the time of recording, Angela Raina is our deputy prime minister.

0:59.0

And she's made statements throughout the years.

1:02.2

She's been quite strident about people who avoid taxation.

1:06.9

And she's also the housing minister.

1:09.2

And she appears to have avoided paying tax on her second

1:13.2

house, which is not really a good look. And this is getting pushed relentlessly in the media.

1:20.7

Interesting timing, because she was kind of being lined up to be the replacement for Kyr Stama,

1:26.5

who has managed to achieve approval

1:28.5

ratings of 11%, which is a new record for a British government to get down that low.

1:36.1

So there's some speculation as to who's sticking the knife in for Angela, making sure that

1:41.8

it stays at the top of the new cycle.

1:45.2

I mean, it could be Blair.

1:46.1

It's normally Blair.

1:47.1

But Blair is, it was thought that Angela Rainer is one of Blair's creatures.

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