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...with all due respect Theosus, no the exact opposite of the truth.
Only about 15% of the students are even allowed to bring dependents, so that's a complete red herring.
They are masters and Phd students, the vast majority are undergraduates.
I work in this sector and understand it and I can tell you a lot of the stuff being passed about is Daily Mail tosh.
Most overseas students who come to the UK for further education are extremely wealthy people from the Middle and Far East who are pumping billions into our economy and making university education viable for the locals. They also contribute massively to the levelling up agenda as they often study in less prestigious universities in the North and the Midlands.
It is only politicians of the terminally thick variety who would even count these people as immigrants anyway as more than 90% of them go back home carrying with them, until recently, a very powerful soft power message with them.
The UK's overseas University student success story is the envy of other Western European countries and the bimboes currently in charge seem intent on scoring another own goal.
Hey GDP who needs it?
All of the above points and more were made very cogently by Boris Johnson's more intelligent and subtle brother on Friday.
Some posters here seem to not have a brain and others not have a heart. Can't draw a Venn diagram but LL seems to have neither. The suggestion that only people who have similar views to ones owns are likely to be Lloyds shareholders and therefore are welcome here is the work of a heartless, brainless worm.
Sundrum- I'm sorry, we are on the same team but you are well wide of the mark there. Theosus has nothing to do with Theorist. The former is a highly respected poster across many boards, particularly Lloyds. Has his fingers in a lot of pies but a completely transparent and reputable investor who gives a lot of money to charity and posts useful and insightful information on many topics. The lexicographical evidence of the first three letters of their name is a bit flimsy really.
GLA
Hi Viable,
Never understood the geological stuff-rely on you for that. I'm still here but keeping my head down as we seem to have been invaded by riff-raff.
The company is moving inexorably in the right direction. I really hope we don't sell out to the Chinese as this is a great company that is going to make us rich over a 3-5 year time scale.
I think the uptick in AU price today is very very significant. The first serious premonition that the FED can't bluster its way out of reality.
GLA
May sell my AAF to top up here, spent all my cash on the beach in Zanzibar.
Good post Level 5, and what I was thinking.
This was massively oversold and is going to retrace upwards on its way to xd and beyond.
Alessandro is an unscrupulous idiot and should be ignored.
Short to medium term I see this back at 130-140.
Medium to long 140-180.
I think the 200 predictions aren't realistic unless dividends are increased significantly.
What I do believe though is that any true investor who wants a growth/return stock, at these prices you can't go far wrong.
This is a keeper.
GLA
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/tanzania-china-sign-15-agreements-after-samia-visi
Btw the loud-mouth pub guy is not Drake: he is a reprehensible character but he isn't Drake.
The pub guy is intelligent but not as intelligent as Drake and not as subtle. Also doesn't know anything about Tanzania, Drake does/did.
GLA
pmehta: I would say this is an excellent opportunity and I'm going to be taking it tomorrow morning. I sold out some time ago at 1.65, not because I thought there was anything wrong, I needed the money for another project. I think the fundamentals here are extremely strong. It is a growing business in a growing sector in a growing market. Interestingly, the two slight reservations I had about this share were the low dividend( now raised albeit not a massive rise) and the fact that it generates profit in jurisdictions that have currencies which are weak against the dollar. As others have pointed out, that neither detracts from the future potential nor is a factor that will last for ever.
DYOR.
...well let's review it TFE.
Promised an Alice in wonderland world where you could borrow loads of money to fund tax cuts.
Started a class war.
Hacked off the IMF and the market.
Crashed the pound.
Crashed our creditworthyness
Crashed bond prices
Blew up mortgages
Neraly blew up pensions
Suddenly changed her mind
Dishonourably sacked her stooge.
Got in someone else to implement diametrically opposite plan.
Wrecked our reputation and credibility.
Apart from that she was pretty successful.
MV in short.
Some of your points may have elements of truth in them but facts are facts. Untruths don't become true if you smuggle them in with other stuff. I wasn't saying you are a ******. However, elements of the ideas you are presenting are ******. The idea that nothing much was happening in Africa until Whitey showed up has been blown away ages ago. The gold mines, cross-continental trade, Great Zimbabwe and early Christian churches in Ethiopia are notable examples of this.
Your argument about the short-lived nature of colonial rule in Indian and Africa is disingenuous nonsense.
Although colonial rule may have been relatively short-lived, the decades, and in India's case centuries that preceded this final stage were precisely the time when the exploitation of resources and abusive practices were at their worst.
Yes, they are sure who built Great Zimbabwe: local Shona ancestors of today's inhabitants of that area.
I would agree with you that the slave trade is improperly understood and particular aspects of it have been focused on more than others. However, I think it is unfortunate to use this fact in a way that somehow suggests the Atlantic slave trade was not a crime against humanity of epic proportions.
MV- You are wrong about Africans and gold: Africans were mining and trading gold and copper in the area of Southern Africa around the site of the Great Zimbabwe ruins from the 12th century.
There was also a very significant gold mining industry in West Africa. In the 14th and 15th centuries 10% of the world's gold was mined there: this was one of the main things that attracted Portuguese and other voracious Europeans who wanted to get in on the act. This trade was dwarfed and by-passed when the Spanish and Portuguese discovered there was a much more fertile ground for their looting and pillage in South America.
There is a true and very interesting story about the Great Zimbabwe ruins which encapsulates the kind of ****** thinking contained in your post. When the first Europeans came across the magnificent ancient stone city, they were so amazed they refused to believe it could have been constructed by the locals and cooked up some ridiculous theory that it had been built by King Solomon.
Fact check before posting.
Gateboyi USA and Europe are not run by delusional Brexiteer thickies who think it's a good idea to borrow a ****load of money to fund growth at the same time as fight inflation.
Derrr-basic stuff.
Apologies to the board for Lawrence. He's got a crush on me.
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/mining-stakeholders-appeal-for-amendment-of-some-eia-laws-3970206
Long and tedious with jarring prose style: the gist is.
1.Environmental Impact reports should be accessible to(translated into Swahili) and circulated to local communities.
2.CSR projects should have local scrutiny since they are tax deductible the community should be assured they are getting the value claimed by the company.
3. Contracts between companies and government should be transparent and available for public scrutiny.
All sounds expensive and time consuming and it is not clear whether this is just a wish list or something that may become reality.
Just got back from 3 weeks in Tz: my impression is the place is jumping.
Don't get your knickers in a twist Lawrence.
Maybe it was ungracious of me to not thank you for suspending your campaign of semi-literate, repetitive rampy posts on BMN rather than castigating you for using the same modus operandi here.