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I’ve got nothing against protecting British jobs. Have you ? Or would you rather cut your nose off to spite your face because you lost the referendum ?

You Remoaners are desperate people. You can’t even be glad that 4,000 UK jobs have been secured for the foreseeable future. You conveniently ignore all the subsidies the EU has been giving to their own companies at expense to their taxpayers. The words bitterness and hypocrisy spring to mind.

Mick-b

“ Crumbs for the British people, cake for the Tory chums.”

WTF are you talking about ? It’s security for skilled workers you lemon 🍋

And furthermore the jobs at Cowley and Swindon are skilled jobs. With the greatest respect to Wilko staff, shelf-stackers and till staff don’t compare.

Ant

“ That we have given £75 million to a German car manufacturer to protect 4000 jobs, yet we have allowed a UK company go to the wall (Wilko) loosing 12,500 jobs.”

Not even a tenuous comparison. BMW aren’t going bust whether they produce their cars in Oxford or in Munich. Wilkinson’s were under water and numerous bidders looked at the books at didn’t like what they saw. UK competitors will fill the void and take on many of the staff.

It’s “losing” not “loosing” Ant by the way 😉

The Mods could have just removed your post rather than the whole thread. Perhaps they felt sorry for the Remoaners on the back foot again……

What has that positive news thread been binned for ? 🤷‍♂️

Good luck 😉

“ Speaking of capital gains. only just realised there is no capital gains to pay on premium bonds when you die.”

That’s right, no capital appreciation but hopefully lots of tax free prizes 😉

I use an AJBell SIPP to trade US stocks but it shouldn’t be hard through your Halifax stocks and shares ISA. It should be as simple as filling the W-8BEN form in. Maybe give them a call if it’s confusing.

Is it a Halifax SIPP/ ISA ?

Do it through a SIPP or ISA and you won’t pay tax on divs or capital gains.

I use a SIPP. Fill in the W-8BEN form online which doesn’t take long and you’re away…..

What sort of platform are you trading on ?

The European Commission has cut its forecasts for the Italian economy this year and next, following a slew of weak data which limits Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s scope to enact promised tax cuts in the 2024 budget.

Brussels said the country’s GDP was expected to grow by 0.9pc this year and 0.8pc in 2024, marking a downward revision of 0.3 percentage points for each year.

The government in Rome, which is due to update a raft of economic projections by September 27, forecast in April GDP growth of 1pc this year and 1.5pc in 2024.

While the Treasury has said Italy can still achieve the 2023 target, the latest indicators suggest next year’s goal is out of reach.

After a strong pick-up in the first quarter of 2023, Italy’s GDP shrank by 0.4pc in the second quarter and its services and manufacturing sectors contracted in August, raising the risk of weak economic activity extending into the third quarter.

The European Commission has cut its growth outlook for the eurozone economy after predicting it will be dragged down this year by a contraction in Germany.

Output across the bloc will rise by 0.8pc this year, compared with an earlier forecast for 1.1pc growth, according to updated projections.

Next year’s growth outlook was lowered by the same amount, to 1.3pc.

It comes as Brussels’ new forecasts said the German economy is “significantly weaker” than previously thought and admitted that the UK had “held up better” than previous gloomy projections.

The European Commission now expects the German economy to be the only major European nation to shrink in 2023 as it downgraded its forecasts for the next two years.

It now expects Europe’s biggest economy to shrink 0.4pc this year, down from slight growth of 0.2pc previously, after a “subdued recovery” from the energy price shock that had thrown its industrial base into crisis.

An independent Remoaner. A rare breed indeed……

That’s if there still is an EU in 20 years time 😂 I’ll be interested to see who’s going to pay the bills in the next few years. Germany is up sh*t creek as is Italy and France isn’t exactly a bed of roses. It may well completely fragment.

Cheers. Already qualified for the dividend. My fear is too many impairments when things get even tighter for household budgets next year. They’re lending or have been to sub prime customers. I may well be wrong and the worst of the news is out the way but they’ve been falling for a good reason. Best of luck 👍

Musicman,

“The war crim socialist who has 30 odd properties?? “

Champagne socialists are the biggest hypocrites in our society. Asides his odious little poodle behaviour to GWB. Alas most of the Tories supported GW2 too. It wasn’t a valid reason to go to war the 2nd time around (no WMDs ever found) despite Sadam being the vile creature he was.