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This is for sure.

The EU represent everything Mr Trump despises..

The Uk still has an opportunity to escape being clustered in with the EU and Starmer must ensure that he does this.

As it is the Uk if we carry on with our own woke ideology two tier policing attack on free speech we will be painting the large target on our back...

Is a lot happen already this week.

France will not be happy with what happen to le Pen..

Turkey in the meltdown

USA going through the gears regarding tariffs.

Rising Gold? Omen of hard times

Budget impact on SMEs.....

Court ruling on car finance starting today.

This Before we even start on the conflicts

Skier1

Respect.

You say this

The key phrase is "informed consent". It's a cornerstone of UK law. Hidden commission = uninformed consent = no deal = redress required.

Certainly with medical procedure that is the case. Something sadly lacking with the Covid vaccine..

But as I know this the cornerstone Or overarching guide of buying something is caveat emptor...

In the case of credit there are the specific requirements.

"CONC 4.5.4 R 01/04/2014

RP

"At the request of the customer, a credit broker must disclose to the customer, in good time before a regulated credit agreement or a regulated consumer hire agreement is entered into, the amount (or if the precise amount is not known, the likely amount) of any commission or fee or other remuneration payable to the credit broker by the lender or owner or a third party"

If this was not done then clearly a breach and expect a substantial fine in addition to any other penalties.

What is not so clear with this one is why the banks are deemed liable for a lapse on the side of the actual dealership sales teams...

MrDarth

Respect.. I also see the proposal to increase FSCS protection from 85K to the £110K..

However always remember this one....

From The BoE.

Published on 22 July 2021

Bail-in is one of the stabilisation tools available to the Bank as resolution authority under the Banking Act 2009. Bail-in ensures investors, rather than public funds, bear losses where a firm fails.

Looking like not on the same page..

Chid

is a good comment that one

"Wonder how long before we know the full, catastrophic damage and cost to us shareholders for this latest 'helicopter drop' of cash to fund the ailing British economy, again"..

Look like history about to repeat itself...

Morning Bros..

Chip in my pence worth on energy.

Not forget that the Govt is forcing a smart meter on everyone at a cost of between 250 and 400 a go.. Ok they say you not pay but its all in the bill somewhere..

Energy policy , the pumping heart blood on any industrial semi industrial nation as far as the UK go has a large embolus in it...

"All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice"...

George Orwell

Bloom

Morning Bros..

Well it can be said that in the Uk our only weapons are the pen and our voices...

The pen is useless as the political system is a duopoly both having similar globalist agendas and our voices.. Speak out at your peril.. We have been played for sure..

Morning Bros..

So This.. MP Mr Rupert Lowe crowd funding a grooming gang enquiry..

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1

Our own Govt should be hanging collective heads in shame with this one...

Is not just a national scandal but and international one.

Only this last week American Republican MJT ( Marjorie Taylor Greene ) set about a reporter over this vey issue.

If we not look after our children where this country going?

In other new Turkey going to as they say going to "hell in a hand cart"...

STP

I agree entirely with Community General Secretary Roy Rickhuss when he say this...

"Given that we are now on the cusp of becoming the only G7 country without domestic primary steelmaking capacity, it is no exaggeration to say that our national security is gravely threatened."

How this not a security threat? Govt need to sort this pronto..

So what happen across the pond?...Looking like USA still drowning in the debt..

New York Times...

"DoorDash Announces ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Partnership With Klarna"...

DoorDash said the arrangement with the financial tech service Klarna would allow customers to defer payments on orders such as takeout from restaurants, makeup and electronics.

Antony

Enjoy ..

Inflation... looking like the plan... No better way than to disrupt world trade.

Well Uk soon to become only G7 country unable to make new steel.....Mr Henry Bessemer be turning in his grave,...

Morning bros

Well i say this... Upward momentum of any stock no guarantee that that will continue...

Stock market a bit like the elevator. Someone press a button and you may be finding yourself going down instead of up..

Trump is rattling global trade and that not a good thing.

I also wonder why the B-2s have turned up in Diego Garcia.. ... Iran moving up the target list?

Back in Uk. Budget not going to help businesses... Taxes they also still looking likely to keep rising.

Lokiloo

Respect

For sure the last Govts did a huge amount of damage.. Johnson scaled back the armed forces and sped up the amount of the new arrivals. When he say this. " cut immigration to 100,000". We not realize he mean per month.

Other big sins.. . Attack on the free speech and the freezing of tax allowances.

TFE

Is a funny coincidence.... So that all sorted then? However in the real world we all know different. If any doubts just look at your council tax bill. Becoming the second mortgage that never goes away...

Are the CLO ( Collateralized Loan Obligation ) ....basically a pool of leveraged loans ....a storm in the making? Have we not seen these before but under a different name? Just ask this... A lot of companies goi8ng to the wall so who holds that debt..?

Buckle up bros.. Going to be interesting this one.

"Yesterday’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI) for the UK economy in March gave a reading of 44.6 for the manufacturing sector – on a scale where the 50-mark separates growth from contraction. That was down from 46.9 in February"....

Germany 48.3 ..... 48.9 in France.

This before Trumps curve ball takes effect.

So what else.. Well you reap what you sow...

"Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the UK is on track to produce just four billion of the 13 to 15 billion barrels of oil and gas the country will need over the next 25 years".

This Govt certainly need to be moving up a few gears...

Mr ASP

Respect... Is a big ask that one.. A stock which never seem to reach it potential but is a big player in its sector..Ummh..Let me say GLEN.. But there are wiser heads on this BB for sure so if they want to put in their pennyworth?

I still thinking about what Trump he said " He was going to monetize the asset side of the USA balance sheet" ... Now we have a lot of movement with the gold.....As Mr Chip he knows. Respect Mr Chip. I ask a friend who is very clever man.. He was thinking what if they throw in the curve ball and revalue gold and monetise it with a blockchain.. Lordy Lordy who knows.. But they has to do something radical. USA revenue from taxes , exclude tariff around $5trillion. Next 3 years $28tr in treasuries come due.. Not take my word so look yourself.. is a lot of extra potential debt If this true...

Still Uk has own problem so lets see what storm Rachel brings in her spring statement on 26th..😫

Mr Asp

Respect..

The portfolio always good to read.

NIOX looking like a bidder in the offing so may need to replace that one if the case..

So who we go with....?

Before I dash what else we learn today..

Lots more passenger just got onboard. Hope the rowers all as fit as our Mr Bloom..

"Ballooning state

Britain’s public sector headcount rose to its highest level since 2011, official figures show, as Rachel Reeves lays the groundwork to announce spending cuts.

A total of 6.14m people worked for the state in December, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), as the Government sustained the post-pandemic surge in hiring NHS workers and administrative staff.

Public sector employment was up by 53,000 from the end of 2023 and by well over half a million compared with the eve of lockdown"...

I see Mr Powell still sat on that fence in 3 months time unless someone push him off. You know what I am saying?