Member Info for Grayling

MB Maybe in Knightsbridge or Henley on Thames the shops are heaving. Don't see much evidence of that in Burnley, Bolton or Blackburn though? I think the economy is quite capable of tanking on the after effects of Trussonomics without the press talking it up! Oh and don't come back with the war in Ukraine line, it won't be another Falklands riding to the rescue of an ideologically divided and bankrupt regime. LOL

Despite those RR-powered planes it is a shame that the Virgin boss does not have much confidence in the UK though:
Billionaire Virgin boss Sir Richard said he would opt to invest in the USA over Britain.
"As far as new money's concerned, we would not necessarily invest new money in Britain at the moment. I'm afraid Brexit's costing Britain something like 2% GDP per year – when you compound that onto the other problems that Britain currently has it's devastating and it has resulted in Britain becoming the poorest country as far as growth is concerned - almost in the world. It really is sad to see."

Billionaire Virgin boss Sir Richard said he would opt to invest in the USA over Britain.
"As far as new money's concerned, we would not necessarily invest new money in Britain at the moment. I'm afraid Brexit's costing Britain something like 2% GDP per year – when you compound that onto the other problems that Britain currently has it's devastating and it has resulted in Britain becoming the poorest country as far as growth is concerned - almost in the world. It really is sad to see."

Billionaire Virgin boss Sir Richard said he would opt to invest in the USA over Britain.
"As far as new money's concerned, we would not necessarily invest new money in Britain at the moment. I'm afraid Brexit's costing Britain something like 2% GDP per year – when you compound that onto the other problems that Britain currently has it's devastating and it has resulted in Britain becoming the poorest country as far as growth is concerned - almost in the world. It really is sad to see."

Here's a positive for you...If you are daft enough to have bought these and fed up with the continuing soap opera and SP decline sell UKOG now and use the money to buy shares in a real oil company (Shell or BP will do). That way you get a fighting chance of making some money AND they both pay a dividend for your patience. Is that positive enough?

Truth is the quality of this board simply reflects that of the company. Can it get any lower?

I have currently racked up 4 x Covid19 vaccine jabs in the past 12 months (2 x Astra Zeneca, 1 x Pfizer and 1x Moderna bivalent) without so much as sore arm. I thought Brexit was a bad idea before these and am still of that opinion ergo the vaccine is completely harmless. However FB is clearly an idiot of the first order and now filtered. Bye

''The main culprit is the Brexit and people who voted for Brexit , those are the people who should be apologising for bringing U.K. to its knees '' Could not agree more. The biggest round of applause on QT last night came with the suggestion by a member of the audience that we rejoin the single market before the UK economy is totally (as opposed to partially) trashed.

I see "Shaky" Sunak will now attend Cop27. Another U-turn, but I suppose the combination of the King's mini Cop plus the prospect of BoJo running around Cairo dropping bombs under the Tories meant that this change of heart was inevitable.

The probable collapse of Britishvolt and failure to build a UK car battery producing gigafactory will not mark the end of the "Electric Revolution" in the UK far from it. EV sales will continue to accelerate as the imminent demise of the ICE looms large. However, the UK's ability to participate in this coming economic growth will be severely curtailed putting further pressure on UK car manufacturing capacity in the EV age. Basically EV's will either be imported from the EU/China or at the very least those built here will use batteries produced elsewhere.

TFE The words smug, sanctimonious, patronising and uncaring just don't cover it. You really are a nasty piece of work but a fairly typical example of the gammon phenotype, unfortunately.

I think interests all round would be best served if LSE closed this board down, as like the company it purports to discuss, it serves no useful purpose.

"We are about to be taxed and talked into recession." LOL I think you will find we are already in one thanks to the last 12 years of Tory rule including the icing on the cake in the form of Truss and her lunatic fringe mini budget. Some people are completely deluded. Perhaps they should go and live in the states and sign up for Trump as they would be in good company. Before the snarky comments I hold LLOY shares and will continue to hold. As long as Sunak clears out the swivel-eyed loons, he has a fighting chance.

I notice that you did not answer the question I posed. What are the "games" holding CCL back then?

The UK is "doomed" and on a path to being "the sick man of Europe" because of the way Brexit was negotiated, according to a long-time Tory backer.

Guy Hands, who runs private equity firm Terra Firma and has been a Brexit critic, warned the UK faces higher taxes, lower benefits and a possible International Monetary Fund bailout.

His comments come after a tumultuous period sparked by the mini-budget.

But Mr Hands suggested the problems facing the UK go back much further.

"I think [the Conservative Party has] got to move on from fighting its own internal wars and actually focus on what needs to be done in economy and admitting some of the mistakes they've made in the last six years which have frankly put this country on a path to be the sick man of Europe," he told the BBC's Today programme.

He added that the party was, in his view, not fit to run the country.

I phoned them to check it myself as I was unsure how my pension could increase by paying over and above the 35 year threshold. The advisor at future pensions assured me that it was correct and that paying the one year of NI would increase my pension. However, clearly if you are already hitting the maximum state pension anyway you would not increase it by making the payment. I was "contracted out" of the second tier state pension by my employer and could never achieve the maximum state pension anyway because of that. I made the one year payment and my pension projection duly increased in line with the pension projection forecast on the government gateway NI record page. So basically if your pension forecast page says you can increase your pension if you make additional NI payments it is worth phoning them to see if this is correct.

Despite the fact that you already have 35 full years on your NI record the pension projection may still say that you can increase your state pension by making further NI contributions. If you have already ceased working this can be done by making a category 3 voluntary NI contribution (£800.80p per year currently). It is simple to do and if you make the calculation of how long you have to live beyond pensionable age to get that money back in increased pension payments it is actually quite short (3 years or so).

Most people bar the hard-core Gammons and ******s have realised by now that Brexit has been a colossal and very costly mistake that has solved not one of this country's ongoing structural problems and wasted both time and resources. Any fiscally sane government would have us back in the single market in a shot.

44 days, same time as Cloughie lasted at Leeds. LOL The Damned Disunited!

Basically Truss is absolutely desperate to get a trade deal with India and they insist this will only be taken forward if visa rules for Indian citizens are relaxed. SB opposed this move and was overruled by the Truss and Hunt and basically sacked. The code breach is the political equivalent of a beard. LOL