Member Info for 67Sam

Bb

"not allowing a democratically elected leader in to your country"

Suspending aid to a country struggling to repel Russia for 3 years suggests Trump and Vance should not be guests and are better off remaining in the country that elected them as leaders.

Bb

"Meanwhile you would cheerfully have Xi here."

You are making things up.

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"You deserve to be called a moron for that"

I could respond by calling you an intolerant bigot but as I have said before, it really doesn't matter to me that you disagree. I understand why you hold the values that you do. The fact is people will always have different views and if you cant tolerate that you will be condemned to forever calling people morons, simply because they dont agree with you.

You happen to think Trump is a great person. On this occasion I happen to agree with the Premier of Australia.

Bb

"Do you still think vice president JD Vance should be banned? "

Yes

"entirely due to your ability to tolerate opposite view"

inability.

Bb

"climate denier which is shorthand for Holocaust denial"

This is pure fiction. I have always recognised the holocaust. It is no excuse for what you called me, it is entirely due to your ability to tolerate opposite views. Now you misappropriate genocide to mitigate your pointless arrogant ranting. How low can you go?

Bb

"if 67 had been there he'd have clapped heartily"

What a desperate and ridiculous attempt to insult me. You just cant cope when people disagree with you. Your over reaction achieves nothing except to demonstrate how insecure you are with yourself.

Bb

"67 yr a total moron"

There you go again, you just cant cope with your feelings when people disagree with you. I dont mind that you think differently from me, it's who you are. The fact that last time you reacted to a disagreement by calling me "Nazi scum' meant I very quickly learned as much about you as I needed to know.

LR

"JD Vance should be banned to travel anywhere in Europe."

brilliant idea

"Bloomers, your opinions and take on the situation, IMO, is vile and corrupt"

agree with you 100%

"markets look very sanguine"

Yes, I'm pleased to see CBG up 5% on completion of CBAM sale. Starting to look like it was worth the gamble.

"I am hopeful of further gains by lloyds this week"

Yes, I'd expect to see the share price go higher this week. It certainly appears to still have upward momentum. When it has seen a drop at the open, it seems to make up the ground quite quickly. Certainly the prospect of a correction due to "Vance and the Orange Bully" has evaporated into thin air this morning.

Xwave

"How can you possibly post about today’s highlights and not mention Rolls Royce!!"

I got it in early at 10.21

Skier

"Starmer did look small and weak, next to the (much taller) Trump"

Trump has the physical presence and arrogant demeanour of a Mafia boss.

By comparison, Starmer appears to look like Norman Wisdom.

Trump calls starmer "a special man"

And I thought the Yanks didn't do irony.

"My opinion is that the tax free threshold should be set to £20,000"|

:)

Gets my vote

Lti

''attendance allowance" isn't taxed

thats good news then :)

"state pensions which include any additional payments coming from serps etc is a taxable income"

Yes thats my point, but taxing someone who has the basic new state pension only is pointless and would also defeat the object of pension credit.

"The government of the day set the level for tax free income"

Yes this is also my point, the government of today and tomorrow should align the tax threshold to be no lower than the new state pension.

LTI

"In other words the state pension amount being taxed"

This is true, but in some ways it would make far more sense if the tax threshold was always kept above or the same as the New State pension. For people whose only income this is, it would mean that it simply used up their tax free allowance. Many of the current retired generation will have state pensions far higher than this, due to accumulating extra contributions from SERPS, second state pension and GMP and/or state pension deferment. Many of these may also get attendance allowance. They could be paying several thousand pounds in tax already, long before any company pension or private pension income is considered.

STP

"What is there not to like?"

Presumably someone woke up this morning and didn't like the series of posts between you myself and Troajan late last night. Our discussion on defence spending clearly needed to be moderated out so it could be replaced by a discussion on taxation :) Still, it's a good day for me, having held Rolls Royce for the last eleven years. I was already up 300% and now up another 15% today with a dividend restarted in June. I cant remember a better week for my portfolio since I started it. I assume (as someone posted earlier) that we have the prospect of peace in Europe to thank for the banks leg up. Lloyds still looking frisky today.

"at least when it is low it is more likely to rise than drop".

Chid creates a completely new dimension to the old adage of "a glass half empty"