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What’s a “moter” ?

Yes a good time to top up in the early 40s

I’m fed with the public sector that’s for sure. Load of people who do very little and scream for large pay rises. It will only get worse under Labour.

Your post has got the cold shoulder it deserves. Your beloved Eurozone is in the mire compared to the UK and is starting to elect right wing governments as it is fed with the EU. Enjoy the next few years.

Inflation rise won’t have helped though they’re saying it tobacco related. The trouble will come if the Houthis aren’t stopped as the oil price will rise.

For once Darth you are correct. Livestock did indeed champion rising interest rates for Lloyd’s. He’s evidently realised at last that they are not the holy grail.

I’ll stick with 55p amd let GoonerPete choose charity A1.

Hi Asperger,

Can you stick me down for 55p ? Cheers 🍻

Why should assets that have been gained after paying tax be taxed again in death ? The tax needs abolishing fullstop.

Or “someone that wants to share the pound in your pocket”

“Labour leader Keir Starmer has committed to reverse a decision to scrap inheritance tax (IHT) if it is made by the Conservative Party before the next general election.

Starmer confirmed a Labour government would reverse the rumoured plans in an interview with Sky News yesterday.”

Same old Labour, tax those who have worked hard and saved and give it to those who haven’t.

STP,

2 more net receivers to join the multitude of others. I bet the German, French and Italian tax payers can’t wait to stump up for them.

Hilarious nonsense from you.

Britain’s private sector companies ended last year “on a high” just as businesses in the eurozone face a recession, latest survey data show.

Closely-watched purchasing managers indexes (PMIs) compiled by S&P Global show that Britain’s services sector saw the fastest jump in activity in December for six months, beating expectations.

The final composite PMI - covering both manufacturing and services - rose to 52.1 in December, up from 50.7 in November in what was the best performance of all the world’s major economies. A reading above 50 indicates growth.

Tim Moore, economics director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the UK service sector “ended last year on a high” amid a recovery in client demand “attributed to hopes of lower borrowing costs and an improving global economic backdrop in 2024”.

Meanwhile, the eurozone could be in recession after a contraction in business activity continued at the end of 2023.

The bloc’s PMI was revised up for December to match November’s 47.6 but it remained below the 50 mark for a seventh month.

That indicated that the economy of the 20-country currency union, which shrank 0.1pc in the third quarter of 2023, likely contracted again last quarter, meeting the technical definition of a recession.

In a further blow, inflation in the eurozone’s second-largest economy France accelerated in December from 3.5pc to 3.7pc, with food prices a persistent sore point for consumers.

1 x £100

2 x £50

1 x £25

= £225

Can you tell us what the Euromillions numbers WON’T BE tonight please Sedaka ?

Or naivety perhaps ?

We can thanks Labour and Gordon Brown for that 🙄

I remember you saying how good you thought rising interest rates were for banks livestock. What happened ?

The pound will hit $1.30 next year and keep climbing against the dollar as traders who bet against Britain are proven wrong again, according to analysts.

Kit Juckes, chief foreign exchange strategist at Societe Generale, the bank, said there was an “enormous amount of negativity” about the British economy that was unwarranted.

Kamakshya Trivedi, head of global foreign exchange at Goldman Sachs, said he too was sticking with his prediction that the pound would rise from $1.28 today to $1.35 within the next 12 months.

Mr Trivedi said he was confident that sterling would keep rising despite last month’s big drop in inflation as the pound tended to track rising share prices and as fears eased about high interest rates plunging the world into a prolonged recession.

The Bank of England has said it believes the economy will flatline next year, while most analysts believe it will expand by just 0.4pc in 2024.

Mr Juckes noted that most forecasts for a flatlining UK economy next year were much more pessimistic than for other economies, including Sweden and the eurozone, suggesting that there was a lot more room for Britain to outperform.

Merry Christmas all 🎄 And I include in that Remoaners, doom mongers and lefties. You know who you are 😂 Have a good one all.

G13Boy