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I’m even going to say thanks to DCB who has coughed up already for next year. Thanks fella 👍

Thanks for all your contributions to the guess the price of Lloyds at the year end that Asperger1 kindly arranges every year. Not quite at £500 but not far short. LTI you’re a ⭐️ for chipping in for Brixton who wouldn’t cough up. Tophat, thankyou so much for your generous donation when you didn’t even enter the comp. Bloomers likewise 👍 Thank you so much to those who kept their promise and contributed to a worthy cause.

Not me MV. But you knew that 😂

I can safely speak for most of us on here I think, that it would unravel. Gotta hand it to Starmer and Thieves, it’s been quicker than I thought…..

Labour should offer Liarloo a job. He’d fit right in with their modus operandi 👍

Iv’e always been ambivalent towards Trump. He’s got some good policies and some bad. I like the way he’s dealing with illegal immigrants in the US and I’m a fan of tax cuts to stimulate the economy and drive growth. The way he’s dealing with Zelensky though is appalling. Putin is attempting to put the USSR back together and it sounds to me as if he’s trying to strip Ukraine of its natural resources by way of blackmail. Likewise Gaza. His plan there is ridiculous. A Riviera with expensive beachside properties ?? Where does the ordinary Palestinian figure in all this who has been evicted to live in a tent in Jordan or Egypt in a refugee camp whilst this reconstruction takes place ? Are they going to be able to afford to live there ? Trump and Netanyahu want to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians completely.

I was heartened to hear Farage last night say Zelensky is not a dictator nor did he start this war. Big up for Nige 👍

It sure is mate.

“Britain’s private sector companies cut jobs at the fastest pace outside the pandemic since the global financial crisis, a closely watched survey showed as Rachel Reeves scrambles to secure growth to balance the public finances.

The S&P Global Flash UK PMI showed the sharpest decline in private sector employment since November 2020 as bosses tried to offset the Chancellor’s £25bn hike in National Insurance contributions and the uplift to the minimum wage from April.

Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global, said: “One in three companies reporting lower staffing levels directly linked the reduction to policies announced in last October’s Budget.”

Overall, Britain’s private sector growth slowed slightly in February as wage pressures contributed to the fastest increase in average cost burdens for 21 months.

Mr Williamson added: “Firms’ costs are meanwhile rising at a rate not witnessed since May 2023, the rate of inflation having now accelerated for four straight months, putting further upward pressure on selling prices for both goods and services.

“The survey data point to a further rise in inflation beyond the latest uptick to 3pc.”

Labour - the party of business ? 🤔🙄

Glad you’ve managed to find one thing to be cheery about Oller. It’s probably a blip in any case.

All other economic indicators are flashing red Comrade 🇨🇳

Yup, Rachel Thieves will be coming back for more and that right soon……..

Agreed skier,

I’m all for fracking and what Labour is doing in the North Sea is ridiculous. Even BP is being slated for its low returns from renewables.

Agreed Skier.

Old people like their cash ISAs and won’t want to go to Stocks and shares ISA’s. I hold bonds and an overnight money fund in my ISA and haven’t had a cash ISA for years. However persuading everyone to change is unrealistic.

Rumours abound that Rachel Thieves is going to reduce the yearly amount you can put into a cash ISA down to £4,000 from the current £20k.

Oller

“the commie left are making you richer”

I almost spat my tea out. Paying more taxes does not make you richer. Perhaps you don’t work.

I’m the same as Boomers. £48k annually into a SIPP that becomes £60k after tax relief.

Most UK shares are up of late. The markets look beyond the impending recession.

You’re being grumpy.

20th May

2.11p

True but you can get more into a SIPP if you’re working still.

Get everything into a stocks and shares ISA or a SIPP and there’s no CGT issues and no tax on dividends.

So the price has gone the other way. Markets are very unpredictable 😂 Like 88, I own Centrica too. Not a bad morning 👍👍

Trump is a business man. Not a politician.