Member Info for Grayling

I doubt that your view that "GB is in an amazing position" will be borne out but unfolding events. Consumer confidence (like market sentiment) is a very fragile thing and there has been zero positive news to increase either over the past few weeks. The cost of living is rocketing upwards, taxes are increasing along with inflationary pressure and our creaking infrastructure cannot cope with supply chain disruption. I am spending Xmas in Spain mate.

There will be no increase in immigration as this would be political suicide for the Tories and would decimate their vote in the Red Wall seats. The latter may already be under pressure over the NI increase and pension triple lock suspension as it is. They will tough it out and it will be grim. No petrol at BP Southwaite M6 yesterday afternoon, had to drive on to Abingdon to fill up. Mucho shouting at the pumps as some drivers were nearly empty.

Even the Telegraph is gloomy :-(
"On the back of concerns about rising prices for fuel and food, the growth in headline inflation, tax hikes, empty shelves and the end of the furlough scheme, September sees consumers slamming on the brakes as those already in economic hardship anticipate a potential cost of living crisis. All measures have declined this month and consumers are clearly worrying about their personal financial situation and the wider economic prospects for the year ahead. When consumer confidence drops, shoppers tend to spend less, and this dampens the overall economic prospects for the UK. This really is an unwelcome picture if this continues into 2022 and beyond,"

Yes they do have an HGV driver shortage, but for a very different reason. The closure of ports in China has resulted in a far greater flux of goods reaching the EU overland by road and rail so their shortage is not caused by a drop in the number of drivers per se but by a greatly increased demand for road freight capacity. Quite different to the UK situation.

has lost patience with VOD as a holding in his "forever fund" and sold out (This weeks Sunday Times column). I presume he has hung on to the Verizon shares which came with the split from VOD a few years ago. Jokingly tweeted that he fully expects a bid to come in for VOD now at a considerable premium :-)

Let’s see what happens, but it’s all positive atm as cheapshsresboy said, and where else better to put your money????

K3 capital mate. Bolt on for over £4 when results are out and a nice fat dividend to boot :-)

No need to mate with quality like that on the doorstep :-)

We have a local butchers, fishmongers, a bakery and fruit and vegetable shop round the corner now. None of them were there even five years ago. They are always packed out, the butchers even opens on a Sunday morning and the service and quality of the produce (much of which is locally sourced) knocks any of the supermarkets into a ****ed hat without being significantly more expensive when you factor in petrol etc. Maybe the days of the big weekly supermarket shop are just numbered?

The fact that it was in the Daily Mail almost guarantees that it was a load of claptrap :-)

Porsche1946 your opinion on PHNX is entirely dependent on your time of entry and your decisions on dividends and rights issues. I have been in since 2014 have always reinvested the dividend and taken up both of the rights issues. I am now up 64% on my initial and subsequent (RI's) and quite happy to continue. No panic, no sweat, no anger :-)

I wouldn't be wetting myself with excitement over an uncrossing trade worth less than a grand :-)

Why? Were you expecting it to fall back slightly on the US opening?

Not at all, just here for the banter :-)

Don't know what Prainey would say, but I would be of the opinion that whoever it was just wasted nigh on £10K :-)

Don't know what Prainey would say, but I would be of the opinion that whoever it was just wasted nigh on £10K :-)

Went fishing the dry fly on the Eden in the small hours actually, so up long before you hit the geriatric walk known as golf. As for a pint, Oakham's Citra is my favoured tipple, before or after a game :-)

Theosus Oh yeh? and I quote from IB himself "I haven't spent much time in the Lords yet. At the moment I can vote remotely and will be at Westminster more often when things get back to normal especially when they are debating something I know about like sport or the countryside. Not much point if it's a trade deal with Japan. Also another of his famously diplomatic quotes "Australians are as big and empty as their country". That should go down a storm down under :-)

Lloyds moribund share price is the very least of our problems. We’ve got Ian Botham in Australia, sorting out the finer points of the deal for the import of hormone-injected beef. And when it gets here, it’ll be packed up by prisoners on day release then driven to the supermarket in an army truck, a gloriously mad triptych for a nation that’s fully lost it and absolutely isn’t going to regain it in the very long, mad years ahead.

And my RDSB too :-) Real oilers!

So what, it matters not a jot what the POO is if you don't have any to sell :-)