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The only growth we will see this year of any significance will be Rachael's nose...

To go with the Wooden delivery.

Stupid thing is a lot have now applied for pension credit so Rachael from accounts has shot herself in the tootsies. The next big u turn will be Farmers..

You don't know what your doing lovie!

Run along and make me a cup of tea. 2 sugars Ta Love, there's a good girl.

Oh and stop going on about the black hole (which seems to grow every time she mentions it!) The OBR do not agree. The same OBR you quote every time you justify your figures.

Back to the typing pool. :)

"“Ed Miliband has defeated an attempt by Rachel Reeves to raid one of his key net zero programs in next week’s spending review."

If you see a picture of them together, it really reminds me of Wallace and Grommit, just trying to fit up the Penguin now...

Yes , I burn coal too...live remotely. No choice. Hate to go back to blackened buildings though..

Maybe China can go back to using Steam Trains too? I'll bet it's profitable sweeping those huge power station chimneys. :)

I was just saying that if the price rise is not there with conflict in the middle East and Huge war between Europe's biggest two countries??where does it come from?

Iran and Russia need big production. Saudi has expensive plans.. Falling demand, steady supply and just as much conflict as the world can take currently. BP do seem to have lost their way. The transition from black to green ...hesitated.

Hold for divi's? maybe but there are better in the mkts with more room for capital growth.

TJ. I shall keep my eye on it! Good luck.

Over twenty years since IPO. I know some have stuck it out here since then! Many like me jumped out. We could see progress we could see development and a solid company growing but just could not see a return for shareholders. I mean shareholders do own the company, right? Everyone is getting a return /living except...Those that financed and supported the company, many for an entire generation.

Where on earth do you long termers get your optimism? The Stoicism is admirable but all the info shared, the postings over the years, the JC bland statements at the AGM's have amounted to an occasional spike.

Maybe a takeover will bring something for shareholders but has it ever been seriously mooted?

I just don't know how the BOD can turn up every year at the AGM and thank shareholders for their "support" and not have rotten fruit thrown at them.

Support = A damn good living plus expenses.

Yes you can.

Better to invest in Nothing eh Chewy? Looking at your Pie chart...Nothing wrong with a small punt. It's the idiots ,the greedy ones who throw 5 and 6 figures at these lifestyle companies that make me laugh.

"Vladimir Putin has set his conditions to end Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine, sources say, and top of his list is to stop NATO in its tracks.

The Russian leader wants NATO - the military alliance of countries in Europe and North America - to provide a written pledge to stop expansion eastwards, which would rule out membership for the likes of Ukraine, Georigia, Moldova and other former Soviet republics."

Really Comrade? that ship sailed when you invaded..er sorry , set out on your "special operation" in Ukraine. You are a one man recruitment drive! much like the Israeli attacks in Gaza are recruiting millions of Arabs to Palestine's side.

I'd use those brain boxes to investigate SYME if I were you.

Just looking at the oil prices, the expected consumption etc..I wonder why the sp is so high? Is it the prospect of continued conflict? Probably.

No point me applying for a visa. The Ai ferret will have traced my comments to my URL and informed the USA Visa dept! This despite Musk's nonsense about no "free speech in the uk".

It seems free speech is permissible only when it has evil intent. So say Meta and Twatter...X marks the spot.

" Thankfully we have Labour to bail us out," Yes well why is all that bailing filling the boat with more water? Good intentions paving a road to hell in a hand cart.

I am poorer thanks to Labour. Fact.

I may have been harsh on the the great American voting public. After all they had a choice between someone losing their faculties and someone who lost their marbles years ago. Oh and a female who also happens to be of black heritage. It has become clear that the USA will not elect a woman , not even a smart one. Maybe the exception is Michell Obama. She of course is smart enough to steer well clear!

Either way , we have Morons running the "special relationship" on both sides of the pond.

Those of us who remember the Radio days before mainstream TV would have listened to programmes across the world on Short Wave . Propaganda was rife especially in the fifties and early sixties. Radio Moscow and the "Voice of America" for eg.There's power in the Voice you loose with pictures.

And Trump? An inward looking ,poorly educated section of the Great American public.Get their news from the internet and naively believe what they want to hear.

Let's hope it's not too contagious but there is an ever growing section ,particularly the under 50's who do not watch "verified" news anymore UK.

Curiously enough many Americans do watch Auntie BBC 24hour news. Many trust it. A long way from perfect but the Quality of Journo's and unspun verified news is as good as it gets in my opinion. Having watched news across the globe . So many have bias one way or the other.

To Ras Putin. Alarming levels of "defence" spending by the Germans now developing new missiles along with their already impressive Armoured Vehicle range. I doubt the Russians intended that...I suspect many within Europe are a bit wary of a Germany Re-Arming... Third time lucky? The Fourth Reich?

Poland already spending 5% of GDP on Arms.

Europe is tooling up. Perhaps this is the Putin plan all along. Now he can genuinely point to the "threat" of a well armed Western Europe.

Bearing in mind he can barely progress against Ukraine and the Country is Virtually bankrupt with dwindling front line troops if he was genuinely elected he would be gone. He has lied to the Russian people and killed huge numbers. All to fulfil his mad ambitions of re building the Soviet Empire.

How do so many nutters get to the top across the world? Complacency .

Legend. Lol. He forgot to mention that one is suspended too! Some judge! 😂

Now knows that Putin's mealy mouthed rubbish about the West being a threat to mother Russia was ill judged. Well with the increases in spending across the NATO world Ras Putin has now got a genuine threat. Let's be clear ,Putin can not even subjugate Ukraine in 3.5years! He is not in any position to take on Europe or NATO. Even with his Allies. If China get involved they can forget trade with Europe.

The Question is how do we pay for these new "Attack Subs" ?Tax rise's should have happened last Autumn! Just do it! People expect it.

Meanwhile long awaited update to Military personnel accommodation. The brudy people arriving on Boats illegally have better places to live!

It's mad!

Just put taxes up you Mad Bank Clerk! I think we all know that even given Covid ,financial troubles and the War the Tories let things slip horribly.

Rachael sees messing about with pensions and ISA as a way to stimulate "Growth" The new Labour buzz word. It replaces "Aspirations".

Well Rachael, It does not work like that...now run away back to accounts and make me a cup of tea pet...2 sugars..