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Bloom

Is only so much NHS can do. Population growing so where Mr Johnson new hospitals?

The bigger picture here is the health. Food in Uk not so good and lifestlye also play a big part. Obesity diabetes big problem but what you do when so many have the Just eat on speed dial?

Maybe is time to tax the big mac off the highstreet..

Bloom

Respect.

Is a terrible thing if someone's " care" does them harm. Very sad to read that..

But you made this the binary choice.. Public v private.. Or course we all know health care in the Uk is already that to a degree also. Dentistry most private and a lot of NHS work paid for by them in the private sector also.

But who want to run a DGH?

Your routine hip, knees, cataract hernia etc easy to price that one but Emergency care ICU beds and staffing 24/7 not appeal to private sector.

Bloom

Be careful what you wish for.NHS spending Uk £200.5bn (8% gdp)

Population circa 70million

USA health spending $5.4 trillion (20% gdp)

Population circa 330 million

Which population healthier?

If NHS it go private pre existing condition not be covered.

Bloom

Respect..

"military spending is economically unproductive"..

USA arms industry exports alone worth $162 billion per year ..

Other problem is you cannot build half an aircraft carrier. Not that they did try and reduce the size of the nuclear carrier H S Trumann this week when it hit a merchant vessel in the Gulf. How that happen?

Lokiloo

If History it teach us nothing else it tells us how the empires they rise and fall.

Trump is playing the high stakes game here. USA is in danger of becoming over protectionist and in doing so will become increasingly isolated. Canada already looking to take advantage of this with O&G.

BRICS countries are home to roughly 3.3 billion people ..by 2026 it is expected to surpass G7 in global trade .

Lokiloo.

Not that I am saying we should buy from elsewhere but as my dad say do the maths.

The 155mm shell. USA already shipped million so how much this cost..Well price for NATO is around £3200 per unit that for stock shell. Specialized can be £100,000 each like the M982 "Excaliber".

Russia cost per shell is estimate at £760 ...

So that £3.2 billion against the £760 million. Now Mr Musk surely he would say it no brainer.

One thing on Ukraine

Trump he says.. That we is not spending enough of our GDP on weapons... Well that maybe the case . Other way look at this is maybe the USA weapons too pricey.. If we bought from Russia we would get 5 x the bang for our buck..

Gold order strong this month.. Comex 100 ounce futures up to 70,000 orders so far this month up from the circa 20,000 in Jan

Lokiloo

Respect. Is a big concern the biodiversity for sure.

WWF give the figure as 73% decline and 95% in Latin America and the Caribbean..

USA big problem with its waterways as Glyphosate from herbicide use now detectable in a large number of its rivers and streams..

We supposed to be custodians of this planet for next generation... Not looking like that happening at all and it will be no good. Last year in my dads garden hardly a wasp in the orchard and not many butterflies either on the flowers. As a child I loved to be chasing them...

Also big issue is the erosion of soil and its fertility.. You is what you eat they say... No good if that food only look real and lacks the essential nutrients.

Forget to say this.

HMRC still in a bit of the back log to say the least. Report in yesterday paper saying the tax system cost around £4.5bn to run.. Seem a lot to me maybe that need a shakedown also. is so complex..

Gate

Respect

" Final salary pensions for the public sector are not sustainable."..

is true that as I sees it but remember many now on the average salary scheme. NHS shifted to this in 2015.

Local Council one though still looking like they need a shake down.

ATISHA.

Morning Bros.. So looking like next arrivals will be ... Gazan given right to settle in the Uk..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/11/court-gives-gazans-right-settle-uk-palestine-ukraine/

Going to need a lot more housing..

In other news. Mr Trump still swinging the bat.. What he mean moneterise the asset side of the USA balance sheet.?. We know he want a wealth fund also..

So who else seem not to be batting well for the home side.. Lord Hermer by all accounts...

Denmark now offering to buy California..

Crazy gang certainly in charge at the moment..

Bloom..

Respect..

Looking after yourself is a good thing. So many people live the lifestyle which is so bad for their health and think no worries the NHS sort me out for free.. Trouble is not free is it.... Diabetes on the rise that is for sure..

Bloom

"bet the NHS is wasting money hand over fist"..

Inefficiencies in any large organization. Spending per capita in Uk still way off the pace of other countries.

Still ..Maybe its time to ask people to pay more toward treatment and for the prescription..

My sister at Xmas notice she piling on the pounds. Took her for the 5k parkrun she was huffing and puffing, was so funny. Still it hasmade her join the gym.. She what she like next time I see her..

Morning Bros.

Gold still going strong with the min my friend pay for Sov £532 and the 9ct at 26.34.

Must mean some thing.

In meanwhile in the Uk.. The tax... tax and the more tax....

OBR it says...Tax revenues to hit the highest level, relative to the size of the economy, since the 1940s.

Maybe 2.4 million people slip ino a higher tax bracket this year,

Maybe 4.2 million set to pay tax for the first time say the Centre for Economics and Business Research .

Certainly tax office busy and running behind the schedule.. Yet what we getting for this?

Looking like so many services being cut...

So answer.. Even higher taxes.. looking like.

Dorfan

"Lammy planning compensation for the slave trade"...

Bros is a good point.

Say this for sure lammy if he takes too many steps on that road soon going to be feeling like the Pelican.

No matter which way he turn there is a very large bill in front of him...

Tak

Bros..

Respect .

As an investor better to be in the helicopter than on the ground. you see more.

Many things interconnected.

Banks performance influenced by the many things. with Lloyds. We have the car finance, interest rates and how the domestic economy is performing. These themselves as we have seen can be affected by Govt fiscal policies and even those of foreign Govts with draconian trade barriers.

Someone say about domestic energy consumption falling. Same in Germany where industrial demand has fallen 20% and all all know why with that one. On Germany LTI he mention VOD. German division knocking the SP back imo..

So what we know this week. Monday markets slump may not be the flash crash. Trump need to realize that he maybe POTUS but its the bond markets that rule the earth and they not happy.

Traded a bit of the physical gold this week ... Mr Chip he know what we used to pay back in the day . Well up 100% since then and no CGT liability to pay . What not to like.

Tax office running upto 4 months late due to surge in interest and frozen thresholds etc.. Be nice to know how much the Govt raking in on the back of that...Pretty penny that for sure.

RogerA

"Looks like a base rate cut is on the cards. Any ideas as to whether this will lead to an increase in the Lloyds share price ?"

Is a good question that one Bros..

This not advice just as I sees it...Conventional wisdom may say potentially the opposite. Lower rates generally mean the NIM is squeezed. However these markets are so mixed up who can say. More important may be what happen with the car finance situation and what Mr Trump he do next. At present he blinking more than King Harold in 1066.

Your money your choice..

ATISHA>>

If only he did...

Look at energy imports from Canada.

20% of total U.S. crude oil demand

10% of gas

Uranium for its nuclear plants that power 1 in 21 homes...

Trump has two pair at best in this high stakes poker game...

LL

Lets hope Trump not remove those with German ancestry. He not keen on Germany. If he do be no one left...

Bloom

You not mention..

The Global Gateway Africa-Europe Investment Package of around 150bn euro or the MEDUSA cable funded by who? Medusa very interesting Africa soon have better internet than Germany 🤣🤣

https://businessday.ng/companies/article/global-gateway-to-disburse-e150bn-to-nigeria-other-african-countries-by-2027-says-eu/