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is slowing and expected to slow further still. Inflation is not an issue as commodity prices are weak and likely to remain so. The EU are unlikely to give TM what she needs to get the deal through Parliament, which will prove to be a foolish strategy as it will inevitably raise the prospect of us leaving the EU on a "no deal" basis The game plan from the EU's perspective is to force the UK to turn its back on Article 50 and opt to remain. But then their view of what is a democratic process does seem to be at odds with our interpretation.

On WTO terms and under GATT while we negotiate the a sensible FTA witholding the £39bn until the EU sign up.

shows once again what is really important. Its not TM or whether or not she survives. Its DT who has just played a blinder in suggesting " he could intervene " in the case of the Chines bird sitting in Canada if China is willing to cut a tree deal. He may not be everyones cuppa but he seems capable of keeping most guessing from day to day. H will probably;y run out of luck in the end but in the meantime FWIW when he talks markets respond. Right now staving off a recession in the US is something we should all hope he succeeds in doing. One less variable to worry about as far as our SP goes.

It may have escaped your attention that the SP seems somewhat linked to what is going in this country at the moment. There is not a lot else to discuss other than AHO's love life or the merits of a share buy back. But by all means many of us on tis board would love to read what you have to say on Lloy and its merits as an investment.

the end is in sight. May must have told the EU that her "road trip" yesterday was a last chance effort to salvage "le deal" yet the arrogant muppets appeared to have given her the same shoulders as they did to DC couple of years ago. They have played their hand for the last time so we know now that the deal as it stands suits them to such as extent that they are unwilling to offer what its needed to get it through our House. They have failed to see that a little of something is better than something of nothing which is where they will be once TM has been replaced by somebody who genuinely believes in putting the country first. Nobody can say TM has not been warned or indeed been offered no end of advice over the last cook of years of "fruitless and vacuous diplomacy" a process that has seen us become the laughing stock of the world as we surrendered concession after concession to the EU. The EU has not moved one inch from the position they took with DC. TM's incapacity to seek counsel is her principal shortcoming and a trait incompatible with the job of PM. She has had her day in the sunshine now lets move on and make it as swift as possible.

Leave under WTO and keep everything in place as it is now for transition period while we work out a FTA with the EU. £39 bn contingent on EU delivering on FTA. Not rocket science

crow cast looked like JF to me. Same self important style same self recommendation.

France 24 on the telly last night in my hotel room. The protests are about much more than fuel tax. France is in a real mess right now and getting worse. I can’t really see that the situation is going to be contained there. Greece is still in trouble Italy heading there and how long have Spain and Portugal got. As we have said time and time before Germany is sitting in the middle draining the life blood out of the EU through a favoured commercial position and imposing ever tighter fiscal control. With the best will in the world this is not really something we want to be part of going forward. Should we end up remaining we want to make absolutely sure we don’t go down with the ship.

Then the fishermen and air traffic controllers

I wonder if he has the fair Diane draped across the saddle in front of him Cossack style ? Just a thought really

We will get more clarification over this weekend from the papers and various talk shows. The end game is in sight. With Paris burning it’s going to be an unpleasant weekend for the unelected in Brussels. The euro zone economy is slowing making it tougher for member states to fund the riding budget commitments even before our departure.

Makes an excellent point ! We just yell the whingeing constituents of the uk to put up or FO no money nothing nothing nothing PO good riddance or play the game. Bye bye Crankie AF etc etc time to make your mind up Leo stock with your biggest trading partner or keep your head up Brussels’ xxxx let’s go wto

Lloy sp has been pricing in disorderly exit for months WTO is not disorderly it’s how we trade with most countries the ball is on barnier s court he gives in or starts paying a couple of percentage points of tariffs we will have to pay more too but net net we will gain given our trade deficit with the EU. What we are seeing with the US is different as the dispute is over dumping and packing of IP rights and technology. The EU could have negotiated a sensible trade agreement with the uk in the two years they have had but chose to ty and block us from leaving and this lose our disproportionate level of contribution. The have sowed misinformation and shamelessly sought to undermine sovereign issues within the union. They we’re always going to play dirty because the financial stakes are so high It’s time the country stood up against the appeasers and let the EU know once and for all that a little bit of something is better than nothing. Our negotiators have failed to smell the coffee and are even now still trying to put lipstick on a pig. The EU could not sign “le deal” fast enough - telling for sure

Our so has moved relatively little through the last few WS gyrations which should be telling in in itself lloy is a largely uk centric business these days with most of the c£ap now in the past. WS is coming to terms with some ridiculous tech valuations and the consequence of falling for lazy shoddy straight line analysi while our markets have priced in a recession that is highly unlikely to happen whatever happens next.

I’d keep off the mushrooms if I were you

Agreed but I think it’s nonsense to see the arrest of some dodgy Chinese bird on sanctions busting is worth 60% on the vix.

Cowering before the vix utter nonsense

The media has allowed itself to be suckered by the EU and their stooges here at home the remainers in demonising WTO. Most of the world operates remarkably normally under this arrangement . It’s not in the EU’ s intestins as they tin a massive surplus with us so we would be net beneficiaries of such a deal. Ireland would have to do some thinking to see where their commercial interests lie - Hobson’s choice perhaps meanwhile day traders and hedgies continue to slurp at never empty trough that is TW

We are pretty close to it anyway can’t really see the issue . We run a massive deficit with the EU. The EU gambled that our political classes did have the b@lls to go through with it and it looks to me they played a good hand. Endless propaganda and reincarnations of project fear have continued to divide the nation and the impulse focus away from a realistic assessment of prospects over the near and intermediate terms. A charismatic leader would have succeeded to false narrative as was the case 80 years ago. Sadly now we have country run by a lazy unaccountable civil service and politicians focussed firmly on self interest. We have r a bunch of left wing nutters waiting in
The wings to hollow out what little we have left in this country and did not have time to do last time they were on a position of authority. May is gambling with Britain’s future - you day WTO is a disaster what’s a few percent tariff on goods in and out compared with the first Marxist state on Europe since the thirties. The teal ghoul overhanging this country laughingly calls itself HM opposition

That the media had allowed the politicians to dress a WTO departure as a ‘no deal Brexit” tariffing impiété and exports on WTO terms would be in our favour give. The trade imbalance with the EU on top of the favourable exchange rate we are already be befitting from on the current global low interest rTe slow inflation slow economic growth environment. In reality we only jane to fear fear itself. There is no great “ unknown”as the EU gangsters and or remainers would let us believe.WTO would after an initial bit of nervousness prove to be more liberating then the straight jacket the govt is trying to force us into given the govt opposition to publishing the full
Legal text of the leave agreement. Tm was given a poisoned chalice but her inability to communicate and consider differing opinions on an issue as critical as this suggests that she has failed at the same hurdle as Margaret thatcher and will thus inevitably suffer the same fate .i am Hopi g she had the grace to say enough is enough and will not be
I hope she will not be too blinkered by her self belief and righteousness to bring the temple down with her having not seen the legal document we can only assume it confirms the fact t that we have to swallow a bad deal . WTO will focus the minds of all trading paries at this late stage.

In Asia today Chinese indexes up close to 3 percent I guess I guess nokesa will ne crawling back under his bridge to come out another day to scare the people .hot and humid here in Penang and no one is talking about Brexit good to learn blobby got booted time for another mai tai