Member Info for BruceJamieson

RBS has paid £27 billion in penalties so far.

Has now admitted there is now shortage of medicines whatsoever!

There is an anglo German club in Hamburg but no French allowed

Pass my best wishes to your daughter she sounds amazing. Sadly Maybot is not amazing. A According to today's Telegraph the EU finds her unreliable. Hard to believe but true!!!!!

Are you saying that all general elections should be rerun as you do not like the results?

These people are deluded. We have had the people's vote named a referendum. It is not a besT of 5. It is not the people's fault that a bunch of incompetent politicians have so far failed to implement it.

It is interesting that Barclays pe is 16.6 And is less sound than Lloyds

There was a public share off which was very popular. Complocated with both French and UK issues if I recall correctly

Don't forget there was a Broadway play "Play it Again Sam" by Woody Allen

Agreed. I knew Play it again was a mistake. Saw the great film for the first time about 3 years ago.

I had forgotten Browns dividend raid. Of course there should be no tax on divs in pensions nor ISAs I prefer a witholding tax which can be refunded or witheld. The present system is not conducive. The important thing in a private pension is fund performance even more important than charges.

I have remembered the one I like Tim Congdon

Well QE not exactly confined to UK. Practiced hugely in USA and latterly in Europe. Annuity rates have declined in line with interest rates generally. There are plenty of alternatives to annuities, drawdown, the special schemes from LV etc and of course one should use a good IFA to check rates, look into impaired life rates or terminal if someone has cancer. Plenty of good articles in the quality press. And Labour was an enormous success last time were they not???????? Gordon Brown would not even believe Darling about the crash. And do you remember interest rates at 13% at the other end of the scale. I never could persuade clients to lock into the annuity rates available then

There are two economists I do have time for namely Roger Bootle and another called Tim something cannot remember his surname

They say that is you have a room of a dozen economists there will be 13 different opinions.

I totally agree with you about tidal power and the government cancelled the scheme supposed to take place in the Bristol Channel. Wind farms are inefficient and extremely dangerous to wildlife particularly birds

Further to what I said of course Carnage is not printing money but recycling it by means of QE which was always a dodgy way of doing things, contracted the gilt market and contributed to the demise of 100s of defined benefit pensions as the companies did not have a big enough gilt market to protect their liabilities

You make it sound as if ultra low interest rates are peculiar to the UK. They are very possibly too low in US the whole of Europe and many other places world wide. God knows what is going to push them up. Carnage always sounds to me as if he is reading a second rate script at a third rate conference. Never sounds charismatic. His portents about markets crashing and dire happenings within days of a Brexit vote were scare mongering, wildly inaccurate and typical of the man.

Which is a bigger worry for the EU non elected bureaucrats? Brexit of the march of the far right?

Far right on the March. Expect more of the same in Germany, France etc