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Mr Bailey had said recently.

That BoE rate setters looking for weakening job market...

Well Mr Bailey look no more here it is..

Mr Mustard

Respect..

More to do imo with the increase likely hood of rates reducing. Figures today not painting a good picture but as always some winners.

"Paul Dales at Capital Economics: “Payroll employment has fallen in seven of the eight months since the Chancellor announced the rises in National Insurance contributions (Nics) and the minimum wage".

“So clearly businesses are offsetting the rises in their costs by reducing headcounts.”

I think most one here this come as no surprise.

Morning Bros.

Ummh. So where to begin..

Unemployment highest in 4 yrs. another 41,000 lost. Now at 4.7%

Situation deteriorating

Will force Baileys hand on rates..

Govt policy having a very negative effect overall on Uk Plc.

Mr MV

Respect..

From the commons library is a breakdown of the financial cost and also the cost in lives and injuries of our brave troops. It also gives the insight into the true numbers of people who have been allowed to come to the Uk. Much higher than the 24K figure recently quoted.

By any measure this was disaster of epic proportion. Yet who is to blame?

"Afghanistan statistics: UK deaths, casualties, mission costs and refugees

Research Briefing"...

Published Monday, 09 December, 2024

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9298/

Bloom

Yes that is for sure. We were first nation in the world to industrialise and looking the first to deindustrialise. We also have a lazy work ethic and successive Govts have failed to invest in key infrastructure. Even now shipyards closing and fuel supplies being affected by refining cut backs. Is all a bit of a shambles.. Still lets see how taxing to prosperity work out...

By winter things going to be very interesting...

LTI

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Maybe unlike you Mr Trump knows what Russia is capable of. Oreshnik nuclear missiles are only 9 minutes away from London. The message of last resort would initiate a response some 20 minutes later, which is a little too late. Be careful what you wish for..

Mr Hollybean

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You need to know who is pulling Mr Trumps strings. This half baked U Turn on resupplying Ukraine arms.. Imo Look no further than Mr Lindsey Olin Graham.. Trouble is USA reserve on some weapons system is by some reports as low as 8 days... Wonder why Iran conflicted ended so abruptly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham

Trump has underestimated Chinas and still belives the USA is the great word policeman.

China now has 50 deep water ports. Strategic economic and military assets. How many USA got ..2.

Trump believes the USA can suddenly produce its own critical and other metals. takes 25 yrs to bring some mines into production. In interim China has 6 smelters for aluminum in Indonesia alone..

Tell you whilst USA fiddle in Afghanistan and the middle East China been moving up through the gears..

Bloom

Respect.

Backward you may view them but the Native Americans had a way of life that bonded a tribe and was sustainable for thousands of years. they understood and respected the natural word. Never taking more than they needed..

In constant we have our society . Mass consumers destroying the planet were many neighbours do not even know each other. Where War in a business and killing just the collateral damage.

88

Respect

You are a wise man that is for sure..

But lets think outside the box here.

We know Govt not willing to stop the boats or any other means of bypassing legal routes to seeking asylum , immigration etc..

So what is the play?

We hear the usual help with demographic time bomb.. But what else?

This the wild guess time.

1. Could be to stir up the gene pool.... We haven't had a proper invasion for a long time...

2. The war drum beating ever louder. Today another general suggesting bomb shelters etc. Maybe a bit late to the party with that one. But what would we need apart from the hardware..? You know what I am saying.

There is always a reason behind everything.

Macron given the celebrity status. No doubt lots of private matters to discuss.

Brixton.

Respect but the history is Europe is a history of wars. Look how many territories they changed hands..

Mr hardup..

Colonisation is one mans suppression.

From Wiki..

"The European colonization of the Americas from 1492 resulted in a precipitous decline in the size of the Native American population because of newly introduced diseases, including weaponized diseases and biological warfare by colonizers,[7][8][9][10][11] wars, ethnic cleansing, and enslavement. Numerous scholars have classified elements of the colonization process as comprising genocide against Native Americans. As part of a policy of settler colonialism, European settlers continued to wage war and perpetrated massacres against Native American peoples, removed them from their ancestral lands, and subjected them to one-sided government treaties and discriminatory government policies". ..

Funny how history keep repeating itself. Maybe its because it is using the same actors...

Bloom

Morning to you on this fine day...

Gaza is a blot on the copybook of mankind that is for sure. But not forget the USA has form.. Look what happen with its own genocide of the native Americans .... Palestinians heading the same way..

Morning Bros..

Lovely sunny day so rejoice..

Interesting week.

Uk economy losing what little traction it had and the upshot.. Bond yield up.. and rates baked in now to come down...

Construction sector going into reverse also..

Trump still banging the tariff drum, where this going to end we will see. But tell you this not in a good place.

FTSE reach all time high. Good if you hold a tracker but generally in this disconnected market bears no relevance to the state of the economy.

Japan car giants having a drastic rethink on USA car plans with 800,000 + jobs on the line.

China leading the pack in the hugely expanding cloud capital market.. Supported by the massive expansion of AI...

Bitcoin having a good run as we await the further roll out of CDBCs

Uks project Agora ( Greek for marketplace)led by the BIS has around 41 financial firms signed up.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/

Mr Nunn speaking out about Govt plan with a quasi capital control on pension funds by suggesting they sign up to investing largely in Uk firms..Good like with that one Mrs Reeves but no doubt Mr Nunn be on the naughty step then..

Houthis sunk two ships... Big headache this for global trade.

Mr JBCo

Respect..

Long overdue the removal of stamp duty but tell you this it isn't in labour DNA.

CGT also need raising to circa £20K ( 2025 to 2026 tax year the allowance is £3,000 )

Plus make the tax at a flat rate of say 10% above that.

ISA very useful but if you want to roll the big dice not enough....

Brixton

Respect

But king is just a Titular ruler... No real powers although constitution may give impression otherwise..

What you think another French invasion?. His family does have form....

Isn't this ironic.

May26th June 1940 little boats ( operation dynamo ) rescued over 100,000 Uk servicemen from German forces. Helping to secure the future of this country...

Roll on 80 years and now we has little boats being used to undermine our whole way of life... How things change.

Cardinal

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Far ore important is the macro.. This Govt is running this country into the ground. Trump is causing global choas and the speeding up of the new world order. Russia is edging closer to direct conflict.

The car finance issue will be clear cut and costable, with substantial amounts being offset against tax as was shown in the write down in the accounts.

324,000,000 provision in 2023 for the potential impact of the FCA review into historical motor finance

commission arrangements and sales announced in January 2024. In the fourth quarter of 2024, a further £616,000,000 provision has been made

Page 11. shows where this appears as a liability on the balance sheet.

https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/assets/pdfs/investors/financial-performance/other-subsidiaries/2024/q4/2024-bh-annual-report.pdf

Morning Bros..

Could not believe my eyes at all the fawning and adulation for Mr Macron. Certainly pulling out all the stops. Why ? He is causing enormous damage to the Uk and will continue to do so.

I could be wrong but it also seem our King, bless his majesty, may have missed the opportunity to bring up the subject of reparations over the Norman conquest. Better luck next time maybe..

TFE

Respect...

Ah yes all these MEPs... Represent the Uk in Europe...?? Debatable that one..

When push came to shove and we wanted to exit the EU what side were these MEPs batting on.. Not the Uks that is for sure imo...

So anything Lord Kinnock say that we need to note...

"We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership".

Neil Kinnock

WW

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This is for sure the case.. Its all relative... Monaco big example.. You got millions not considered very wealthy as have many have the billions...

But .... The lower the Govt can set the bar the higher the take..

The big picture. Debt soaring, benefits bill out of control. exodus of wealth and the push for war and no war chest to raid so who is under the next best bet to put under the tax microscope....?? No prizes for guessing that one..

Markets kick of shortly let see if Lloyds lands on the red or green ....

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Is reported in the telegraph

Labour ‘willing to explore’ wealth tax

Lord Kinnock backs raid on the rich.... So we start with him then...🤣🤣

In truth this is a serious matter. Mr Starmer signed up to Un pact on wealth taxes..

So what is the wealthy?... Did the threshold for the Winter Fuel tax let the cat out the the bag? Can it really be only £35,000..

Be a few our of boards resident multi millionaires chocking on their Kedgeree this morning if that the case...