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The Duran Podcast

UK economy on brink of collapse

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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UK economy on brink of collapse

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, we have to talk about the UK economy because the telegraph they put out an article a couple of days ago where they are saying that economists are sounding the warning alarms.

0:17.3

They're ringing the warning bells and they are saying that the UK economy is a need of an

0:24.7

IMF bailout.

0:27.9

This is bad news for the UK economy.

0:31.4

This is huge.

0:32.3

I mean, I remember the IMF bailouts with Greece.

0:35.4

This is catastrophic.

0:37.2

And actually, some of the economists

0:38.8

are saying that the UK economy is in an even worse position than where Greece was in 2008,

0:48.6

2009, when the troubles really started to hit Greece. So anyway, your thoughts on, on this explosive news about

0:55.5

the UK economy, it seems like it just came out of the blue, but it really didn't. I mean,

0:59.7

you've been warning about this for, I think, the better part of a year now, maybe even,

1:04.0

maybe even longer than that. But it just seems like it just kind of hit right away. And

1:08.7

they're blaming Rachel Reeves on for all of this.

1:11.3

Absolutely.

1:11.7

How it looks. Now, the fascinating thing about this story is that after it, that article appeared

1:18.5

in the Daily Telegraph, which, to be clear, is a newspaper hostile to the current

1:24.7

British Labour government. And the economists that you mentioned, as I said, most of them, I would describe them as

1:33.5

right of centre.

1:34.8

So they are people who are also hostile to the British Labour government.

1:38.8

I was expecting that the government itself would come out and say loudly and clearly that this story

1:51.5

is nonsense. There is no possibility of Britain needing an IMF bailout that there would be statements from the Prime Minister, statements about this

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