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The reason why the millennium bug didn’t impact the world, was because of all the Work / changes / preparation that happened prior to it.

It’s not because threats of a millennium bug were bogus

Once you realise this, you should realise how silly it is to make this argument

Carrington - you must be talking about Euro and banking equivalence?

Fishing waters - do me a favour what a load of utter nonsense. Apart from North Korea maybe.

On a train no glasses

Carrington - PS. These rules apply only to trade into / out of coin in market. U.K. is free to lower standards and accept gun foods, chlorinated chicken, steroid beef, ruin its farming add notor industry and pretend free trade deal with their unfriendly, “Wild West” states, so long as none of this. Crosses into the EU

Carrington - I don’t know what’s crap about it?

The offer is preferential access to the common market by following the common market rules.

If the EU improves standards etc & U.K. does not wish to match them, they will no longer maintain that preferential access.

This is the same as any trade deal or any contract. The U.K. has signed deal with japan, in return for an improvement on cheese over the current EU agreement, japan has imposed far tougher state aid rules than the EU are asking for?... essentially by stupid people’s definition sovereignty

If the U.K. breaks these agreements, japan will impose tariffs and apply changes to how they trade with the U.K.

For some reason, U.K. government & you think this is a reasonable U.K. position ?

It’s obviously not is it ?

Absolutely hold them to account for their dishonesty. Accounts will be settled.

To clarify - I would support industrial action if BT were proposing statutory minimum payments. But they are not

As I keep being told by old dinosaurs on this site I know nothing.

But I do read a lot & am keen to learn a bit a company my hard earned is invested in.

As far as I can work out, lots of BT’s business is now focused on providing a service a support contract for another company. I think this makes them very, very vulnerable, it’s no longer about networks freezes or equipment left to run, it’s about delivering everyday towards contracted services for third parties

One wiff of a strike getting in the way of other business models, belonging to other companies & they are going to squeeze BT until their pips squeak.......I can’t see how BT will be able to deal with a protracted dispute?

That doesn’t mean I agree with industrial action, BT management are not (far as I can see) doing a number in Ts&C’s from what I read, although less for some, it’s an improvement for others & I have to say still better than most U.K. workers could hope for. I think industrial action should be for the worst of employer excess, this doesn’t sound like that to me.

BT needs to change, jobs need to go, a decent severance seems fair enough, it’s not exactly statutory minimum (which for this company I think I would support )

Velo - “So if sentiment is bullish in 11 years time, whether 11 years have proved inadequate or otherwise, then there's no need to introduce angst if the SP is still performing to trend expectations.”

To my mind, the two things are inseparable? If the duration / payback time is thought to not be long enough...... then sentiment will be in the wrong direction. It’s like saying there’s a separation between oxygen & breathing ?

Amen. But let’s remember, no deal would be better than the deal we have as a member. Arguments about sovereignty, immigration, army’s, currency etc etc were all probable lies & absolute nonsense

Well done everyone holding BT shares

More to come I hope

I think that article say 100 sites by 2030 and then the rest during the 2030s. A 20 year programme?

Fusion - China & Nuclear Power

Velo - so I was thinking about that & therefore ask the question.... is 11 years enough?

11 years of fully built fibre, sweating every last connection, maybe. But I’m thinking, year 1, that’s only 1.4 million connections, by the time there’s an abundance of cash generating fibre connections, we’ve only got 4 or 5 years to sweat them?

Or am I missing something here ? (Again)

I wish I had a “like” button to click

It was just a speech though, rather than policy

h hi - I think fusion answered that beautifully for me.

I’m sorry to say labelling everything you don’t like or agree with as “socialist” is for the birds..... I see it all the time where political confusion reigns

In an environment like this, what can a chart or chartest tell you?

Are all bets off at this point?

I assume openreach just got a whole load more expensive

Longtime - £1.05 another very shrewd investment

Tony - a month ?

Article says government has dropped its 2025 pledge for fibre nationally and reduced its £5bln investment by 3/4