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By the way an awful lot of these rents are being paid by the taxpayer, that's you. So it's costing us.

In other words it went from councils who could provide affordable housing because that was their priority, to private landlords who couldn't provide affordable housing, because they are totally greedy and a decent profit is never enough for them.Again you don't make people better of as pensioner's, by ripping them all their working lives to cover greed Something needs to be done about it and good on her for trying.

Sorry Denzil it's you who as got it way wrong. You don't make people better of as pensioner's by allowing them to be ripped off by greedy landlords all their working lives, and if the only way we can build decent pots is by ripping people off, I suggest we need an urgent review of policy.

Well that cheerful bugger from the bank of England hasn't helped anyone as she.

I'm not really one for all this worrying about the best way to aquire a few extra quid here or there. Do you think I 3 or 6 months etc,you will be holding shares in a decent investment or not? If so hang on and pick up your shares for 3,if not sell them. Can't see the point in over analysing and chasing your tail for a guess.

We didn't waste our oil revenues on nere do wells,we wasted it on tax cuts for the wealthy who were all ready doing very nicely thank you, same as we did with the money we got from selling the family silver, net result a feeling of greed and entitlement and nothing in the bank for tomorrow. Norway got it right we were betrayed.

Did he really spell which as witch? This serves all our resident Daily Mail readers right. They're all ways saying the world should be run by business, well now it is How do you like it???

I have to say Bobby kins,as a long term holder(hopefully very long) I often think like that. Hopefully these will be a significant part of what I leave my children ,so the plan is come the glorious day I will own as many of these as possible without ever spending another penny of my own money, and I plan to take my leave as they are flying. Not just yet though.

How do you keep politics out of a chat about investment when it's the single most influential factor?

There's nothing new here or nothing that wasn't totally predictable, it goes down every year on results day regardless of the results, it will do so next year and every following year, then it will recover, finish the year with a decent gain plus dividend, that's what it always does, and very acceptable it is.

There's nothing new here or nothing that wa

Do you think the Saudis will be next then? Nobody as funded terrorists as much as them.

A rogue nation does have the doomsday weapon, USA for one Russia for another.

Markets have already factored in that Trumps a looney, short of nuking Moscow he won't do much long term harm (more or less)

Anyway oldbrian in answer to your original question. No it appears nobody knows when the buyback will begin.

Really good bet to do well this year, £3 good probably not but mid to high 280s plus dividend is a good year in anyone's book. If it keeps performing like last year it will eventually meet something like it's expected value.

Very true robleo. Though I find it easier said than done. Years of the saving habit watching your pot grow is not good practice for spending it and watching your pot shrink. One reason I like my divi so much.

Attacking a poor capitalist (or private enterprise system) doesn't make you a communist, it might make you more honest. If it's better than communism or not is totally irrelevant. It not good enough as it stands that's all that matters, and it simply needs improving. Sticking your tongue up its arris and tolerating anything won't do that.

No I'm just fed up of the continuous failure of the private sector to serve this ( or possibly any others) countries needs. Its continuous failure should be honestly faced up to and condemned. If they cannot work for us then whatever can be should be taken back into public ownership, see if they can do better.

what use as the private sector ever been to the people of this country? the water companies putting your costs through the roof, so they can pay themselves a fortune in bonuses and dividends for pouring **** into our rivers and seas? the railways who are more heavily subsidised by the taxpayer than when we owned them? blair and his stupid scheme for getting the private sector to charge schools and hospitals a fortune for changing a light bulb? every road widening scheme or some such inferstructure project that always costs multi times more than quoted? these who paid bonuses for mis selling you endowments? the list is endless of private sector rip off and failure, a bunch of foreign mercenaries who care nothing for this country. its time they were told to shape up or ship out.