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john46 - 16.48 - 'You obviously can't see the writing on the wall .' PMSL. More, more, more!

Isn't it interesting already?

In my opinion, for what it's worth, the RNS 11.3.19 'Permitting Update' had 'lawyers' written all over it. I don't profess to know the timescales, but I feel lawyers are now at the starting blocks and will be running that side of things from now on.

Viva Catalanes!

Vive Les Gilets Jaunes!

Whisper it quietly Brexiteers, you may wake up the snowflakes.

Newbies to the left of me, newbies to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with whom?

Think the Romans may have started it but didn't the Angles, Saxons, French, Irish and even those who became known as the English have something to do with it? Especially after the Germans tried to destroy it in the 1940s?

Whoops - forgot the link.

http://www.votenone.org.uk/protest_votes_count.html

My worry about any future election has been that many of the electorate would feel uncomfortable about voting for any candidates other than from the traditional parties - better the devil you know etc. I have for years propounded the idea of 'none of the above' on a ballot paper and it seems that others think so too.
It won't necessarily work, but with sufficient publicity, the numbers would build and would have relevance as regards the legitimacy of a party claiming victory in our inadequate first past the post electoral system.

pastyc - I was slapping down bigger and better muppets than you even before you crawled out of the pond! You shouldn't even be trying to read this BB, never mind post on it.

Rebess - you been drinking? Lol.

pastyd - you really are a muppet. You and your kind keep referring to Brexiteers as being 'old'! I remember the night of the referendum results and the jubilation amongst the young people in the hall in Sunderland as they were the first result to be announced with a BIG majority for Brexit. You and your kind propound this myth that Brexiteers are all old and wealthy - from Sunderland?
You, like the criminals in the HOC (making fraudulent expenses claims is a criminal offence for normal people) become irrelevant when the further provisions of the Lisbon treaty come into effect if we fail to leave the EU. That's what this is all about. MPs probably couldn't give a monkey's because when they are kicked out they head to sunnier climes on superb pensions, leaving the rest of us to pick up the tab, but I don't want that. We will NEVER reform our political system without leaving the EU first, or heaven forbid, civil war.

pastyc - 'Brexit RIP.
And bury JR Mogg at the same time..
Toffee nosed twat!'

You all do it eventually. No intelligent argument, merely inane, inarticulate, vitriolic jealousy.

BJ - '4 cops in a Citroen. Is that all the French can muster?'

In November 2012, 28 gym girls from Eastbourne crammed themselves into a minihatch in London on Guiness World Record Day to break their existing record by 1. And some would claim we aren't world leaders anymore! Happy endings all round!

ICL1960 - If I may be so bold as to follow on from your post and using your example:-

Let us say a company has 100 shares, and £100 cash in the bank.
This means each share is worth £1, going by Net Asset Value.

If you buy back 50 shares using £50, and cancel them, then there is £50 left in the bank, and 50 shares in issue, so each share is still worth £1.

But, market condition means you buy them for £1.20 a share, ie, current SP is in excess of NAV (as is currently the case with LLoyds and was throughout last years buyback), then there is only £40 left in the bank and with 50 shares in issue, each share is only worth 80p NAV. The only positive return to shareholders is to the lucky few who managed to sell at £1.20, the cost falling on the remaining loyal shareholders whose NAV per share has diminished!

Am I missing something?

HT - 'How does share buy back effect the share price?'

Steer clear mate! It's a bigger war than Brexit!

JC, currently languishing 16 points behind our hapless Mrs Mayhem and having suffered 7 resignations from his party yesterday, could have been forgiven for thinking things couldn't get any worse. But no - Degsy's back!!

Derek Hatton has been readmitted to the Labour Party, 34 years after he was expelled by then-leader Neil Kinnock.

The 71-year-old former deputy leader of Liverpool City Council was kicked out for belonging to Militant Tendency.

He revealed in September that he had applied to rejoin after being inspired by Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. (OMG!)

Got to be more good news for Banks and Utilities!

Crowcast - 23:27. If you can't see the point of my post vs yours of earlier, then I doubt if any explanation would be worthwhile. You supposedly charge £1000/day consultancy fees. Look again at the thread of your argument regarding coffee and then my data and perhaps other postings disputing your argument. If you don't get it, then perhaps you should reconsider your charge out rate, or even your career. Doing much consultancy these days, or just a remainer keyboard warrior doing it for free?

Crowcast - 13.22. I won't comment on EU tariffs on coffee imports but the fact is that the EU, which represents 44% of the global coffee market and because of this - 'According to figures reported by the International Coffee Association, each European citizen consumes a total average of 4.67 kilos of coffee per year. In order to satisfy this demand, Europe imports 46.2 million bags of green coffee, 0.7 million bags of roasted coffee and 2 million bags of soluble coffee per year'.
I haven't the time or inclination to dispute most of the rubbish you post, but I could not let that one past!
You sir are an idiot, stupid in fact, and as they say in good ole USA - 'you can't fix stupid'!

As I remember it, Brown started selling half the UK's gold reserves over a 3 year period mainly to reduce the volativity of the UK's reserves including foreign currency. The main problem was that Brown announced the sale months in advance of it happening, enabling shorters to reduce the price of the stuff before the series of auctions. Then by selling at auction he probably lost out on the SP as well.
With hindsight, it appears UK lost out on billions by the sale, but that would be to assume he would have held onto the gold throughout it's subsequent rise. And of course we all hang on to our investments until they reach their very top price don't we?

If CH is forced out, who is going to select a replacement? How many half decent applicants would want the potentially suicidal appointment? Has this been thought through?

JJ - 09:24 - Well said!