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Mr Eureka

Respect.. is the link I posted the other day. 2023 is latest figures available..

https://www.ippr.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-funded

So in under L

Laudes Foundation £300,001 - £350,000

Law Family Foundation £20,001 - £30,000

Leeds University £1,000 - £5,000

Lloyds Bank Foundation £40,001 - £50,000

Lloyds of London £10,001 - £20,000

Local Trust £30,001 - £40,000

One of their biggest donors fund operated by George Soros.. Open society foundation at £550,001 - £600,000

It really make you question who is running the Country...

So with a cost of $1.5 billion a new airport opens I am told on 9th Sept..Covering 2,600 hectares, state-of-the-art facilities, and initial capacity for 13 million passengers per year.. A 4F class airport with 22 gates international flights only..

So where this.. is it the Uk?.. Nope. Europe. Nope.

Is the new airport in Cambodia the Techo Takhmao International Airport ..

Tell you this Uk firmly stuck in the slow lane...

Terry

Respect

"Gunsup

Where is there any evidence Farage has avoided tax on his homes the peoples champion has a track record for this"...

As I have said no doubt all within the rules.. Huge second income stream s etc again no doubt all within the rules. If those rules are right is another matter.

Let me ask didn't have the MPs have a bumper pay deals on the back of cutting out other jobs"..

So who owns the company " Thorn in the side"...

Terry

Respect..

Issue is around the rules that is for sure

But also this. MP is not required to live in his/ her etc constituency. They they can live outside the Uk.. Should that be changed.. In my book is ridiculous.

ATISHA

Respect.

She not the only one with multiple homes...

How many does say Mr Farage MP for Clacton actually own ? On his register of interest it shows..

2 ..

Folkestone and Hythe

Tandridge ( Surrey)

Is on page 2 but page 1 equally interesting and what is the thorn in the side company all about?

https://members.parliament.uk/member/5091/registeredinterests?page=1

Before I has to dash..

Now Mrs Rayner ...

No doubt will all be in the rules.. The rules go as far as to say an MP does not even have to be resident in the UK... So to my mind that need changing. If MP is elected in a constituency they should be required to live in it. Then no more swapping main residence to some distant holiday home...

There you has it in black and white.

30p or JS

Mr Simple..

1. Would you agree we are living in dangerous time?. A war looming nearer and enemies able to move freely across the globe..

2. Would you agree given the above we need a robust border policy ? If lacking needs bringing up to date..

3. That people coming here align themselves to this countries values, language etc and if called upon to do so would rally under our national flag..

Plan B already being suggested....If you scroll down to...

11.58am: Alternative to bank windfall tax

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1077500/ftse-100-live-banks-drive-losses-as-thatcher-style-windfall-tax-idea-gets-mixed-reactions-1077500.html

Is the one think tank I do agree with this..

Onward

Covered in the Telegraph.. They say....

‘Unsustainable’ welfare system on course to cost taxpayers £3,000 a year by 2030 ( £2,650 currently)...

Plus: Sir Simon Clarke on why a suffocating ‘statejacket’ is turning Britain into the sick man of the G7

"One in 10 of the country’s 38 million working-age people is in receipt of some kind of health benefit, according to official data.

In November 2024, nearly four million people aged between 16 and 64 were claiming some form of payment for disability or sickness.

Estimates by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show that Britain’s welfare spending is forecast to balloon to £378bn by 2029/30 – almost double the £210bn paid out to claimants in 2013-14".....

Imo this a very conservative estimate....

Chid

If true would be no surprises there.. Bank stock being marked on presume on that news... Not seem very charitable course of action by IPPR suggesting this as peoples pension and Mr LTI next round depend on financial stocks performing well.

Mr Harddown

Respect..

Try to limit to one option and expand how much and why...

DOGE ... How come we not got this in place already ?... So much money wasted.. My friend has cycle lane outside his house. No one use it, well maybe a couple of people a day but it cause chaos as it narrowed the road. Was almost £2million..

Bloom

Respect..

How many wheels we got left on the wagon?

Neil Oliver did an interesting monologue yesterday on his youtube channel...

So we have policies being thrown in from left right and center on how we try to improve finances. I know some on here very clever ...So lets get the grey matter fired up..

So before the pension age get pushed back triple lock stopped what else is better option?

My own starting point is the student loans.... Going to half a unpaid trillion by 2040. Govt own stats

"The Government forecasts the value of outstanding loans to reach around £500 billion (2023‑24 prices) by the late-2040s"...

Any more ideas then maybe we could list them and have a vote on top ideas...

67Sam

Respect....

So IPPR .... Well lloyds have funded them so only have themselves to blame... The size of this "charity " is quite interesting..

List of funders...

https://www.ippr.org/who-we-are/how-we-are-funded ( 2023)

Some surprising names in there .... Plus is lot of money .. What do they need all that for is the many millions..?

So meet the team...

https://www.ippr.org/who-we-are/our-people.. Is a lot of staff..

Charitable activities costs 2023

Support costs £10,928

Research and dissemination on social political and economic issues

£4,228,762... ( accounts companies house 2023)

Imo far too many unelected and seemingly unaccountable "think tanks" lurking in the wings....

Mr Triumph

Respect...Add me in on that..

My post 8th August..

In 2023.

New economic Foundation said this..

"14 November 2023

The Government could save £55bn over the next five years if it limits the amount of money the Bank of England pays interest on to commercial banks, according to new analysis from the New Economics Foundation. The Treasury will pay out over £150bn to the Bank of England to fund its payments to the banking sector by 2028, this on top of the £30bn already paid out in 2023. This is a result of the Bank of England paying interest on all central bank reserves, including the £875bn created through quantitative easing (QE)"..

Well we will just have to wait and see...

Drum beat getting louder on this one. what happen we will find out..."..

Mr Hardup.

Respect.

Who surprised broadband providers going bust is a total shambles in many areas with who can and cannot share conduits and many with 3 ports outside their home along with all the digging and re digging.. Well you only need 1 port..

Should have just been the open reach and job done or use a satellite..

Nice and early finish but back out working later. Now what being said today..

Mr Bloom.

Respect but weight loss drug not a scam. One of my friend who is pharmacist was telling me about price rise. But said people happy to pay privately £160 a month if I recall and some have shown the remarkable weight loss and not just that it has changed their who manner. Much more positive...On down side he did say pancreatitis has been a issue in a few cases...

Mr LTI

GS

''The UK is heading for bankruptcy and the FTSE is at an all time high. Investors are either blind, ignorant or stupid''

Most of the ftse100 earnings are NON UK..

So you think that ok then and that how it work?.. Well don't say GS not warn you... Been a real disconnect for a long the reality v hope..

Markets only ever between the next major correction..

Someone mention France in the hot bouillabaisse... For sure but not forget the USA as well.. They got a lot of debt to find buyers for..

Russia ambassador being summoned over the UK embassy in Kyiv being hit ... Like to be a fly on that wall... Russia did recently flash pics of silos and launch sites for the Avangard missile system.... Lot of chest beating going on and the situation seem to be getting rapidly worse not better.

Markets looking for direction.

Mr WW

Respect..

I agree 100% .. Is surely commonsense?

You only has to look at University challenge.. How old some of them..?

More important this..

With advent of new tech such as AI and projected job losses in some industries we must pivot back to the trades.. We also must have a strategic overview. If we want a shout at lucrative reconstructing work in Ukraine /Gaza etc we have to have the labour forces trained and ready to to go..

I was interested in TUN RNS this morning. Is a stock I have held for while. Is a good project but need the money. Is Uk investment bank stepping up.. Nope funding offered by :

Under the EXIM's new Supply Chain Resilience Initiative ("SCRI"), EXIM is able to consider financing up to US$95 million for a maximum repayment term of 15 years.

EXIM ( Export-Import Bank of the United States )

SCRI ( Supply Chain Resilience Initiative)

Our investment bank

Mr Talkingsense.

Respect.. As with everything time will tell.. But the sector is hot..

TUN going through the gears at long last today..