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Just treason May - and she looks like she's on her last legs and has aged so!

PPS - Snige - be kind to your cat - there is only one way out = Catzit

Hardman not Hadman.

Robert Hadrman wrote an article a couple of months ago in the Mail after having visited Felixstowe - something Ministers or opposition MPs don't seem to have entertained. His report indicated that everything was under control. Tariff A B C D E . Computers can cope - what's the problem = answer the elected MPs who find life so comfortable under Junker that they don't want to leave.

Guy come back - any time PMQs are in place.

And I am not giving in to £7.66 ( less costs) cf £7.82 on day one!

Maybe - reading the blurb below the RNS it seems that there is scope for expansion Stateside and Europewise.
I think the BOD are weak and should have seen off any offer under £9 ( remember the 12mth high at the time of the approach was c£10.30.)
That said SLA must be off peed because the offer price at this level is not what they were seeking.
Easy for analysts to screw any COY if the wrong slant is put on the analysis at a point in time without considering the longer term.
That's life.

Poor outcome for me also. £7.9 without the divi. That was the best from 3 months talk. Clearly both parties - Bain & Apollo wanted in on the cheap.

Snige
I guess that will affect the price of bread in your locality - up north now?

cont
. By contrast, it is Nato that protects us and the main element in Nato is the United States.
10. The EU’s future
Remainers may value the opportunity to shape the EU’s future from within – despite the evidence that it regularly steamrollers us. Even so, they may be enthusiastic about the prospect of further integration, including fiscal and political union.
In that case, of course, no other set of arrangements between the EU and the UK could possibly fit the bill. Yet why any British person should support EU membership because they pine for full European Union is beyond me. Increasing numbers of people on the continent want to go in the other direction.
This point 10 is in a league of its own. In essence it represents a quasi-religious belief. Yet if you don’t adhere to any of points 1-9, but you want to stay in the EU, this is what your support for continued membership of the EU rests upon. Good luck with that one.

Why can't remainers understand:
think there are ten key things that differentiate the “multi-deal” option from continued EU membership. This list may prove helpful in considering any alternative EU/UK arrangements that might be put forward in coming weeks, as well as helping to flush out the true sources of your friends’/relatives’/spouse’s/MP’s Remainerisim. Where are they on this list of ten arguments for staying in?
1. Continued contributions to the EU budget
Yes, I know this seems incredible but some Remainers do actually think this is a good idea because of the benefits that EU spending brings to Europe.
2. Continued membership of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and/or the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
Remarkably, some Remainers believe that, left to our own devices, our agricultural and fisheries policies would be worse.
3. Remaining under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ)
And again, remarkably, some Remainers do believe that this is more than a necessary evil.)
4. Continued single market membership because of its supposed importance for trade
This is the argument about border “frictions”. Yet Remainers have greatly exaggerated their importance. There have been lots of statements from leading businesspeople to the effect that border frictions are a minor issue.
Moreover, the evidence from international trade backs this up. If border frictions are so significant how is it that countries from all over the world manage to export into the single market so successfully without being members of it?
5. Continued single market membership because it gives unrestricted access to a large pool of European labour
Yet we would continue to have controlled access to EU workers and we would have better access than now to workers from outside the EU.
6. Continued single market membership because it enables people to live and work anywhere within the EU
(Surely, this is nice to have but hardly earth-shattering.)
7. Continued customs union membership because of concern over tariffs on EU imports and EU tariffs on our exports
Yet the average EU tariff on manufactured goods is only about 4pc. Moreover, the British government has the ability to return customs revenues to British consumers by either a reduction in VAT or a unilateral reduction in tariffs on certain goods. Meanwhile, British exporters are well used to facing tariffs when exporting to the rest of the world.
8. Continued customs union membership because the UK would find it difficult to negotiate its own trade deals
Yet, as I have pointed out many times before, the EU’s record in negotiating trade deals is poor. As a smaller entity, not having to get the agreement of 27 other countries, we would be much more nimble.
9. Security
Remainers may believe that inside the EU’s embrace the UK is more secure. Yet the EU directly contributes very little to either our military defence or our intelligence resources. By contrast, it is Nato that protects us and the

Not if the basxxxds control.

In 2005, the people of both France and the Netherlands rejected the EU Constitution, preventing its ratification by the EU. Emergency measures were required, so Brussels changed the font and the title of the document and reissued it as The Lisbon Treaty, a much less threatening-sounding name. To ensure its smooth passage this time, the governments of both France and the Netherlands decided not to bother their electors again and ratified it through their parliaments.
But such a political short cut wasn’t available to the government of Ireland, whose own constitution guaranteed its citizens the right to pass judgment on what was now the Lisbon Treaty. So in 2008, Irish citizens were asked whether the treaty should be ratified. They said no. Obviously the only democratic thing to do was to ask them again the following year, with a question along the lines of “Are you sure?” This time the citizenry behaved themselves and the treaty was duly agreed EU-wide.
None of those three countries seemed to show any ill effects of this slightly imperious approach to local democracy. So perhaps they have indeed provided comfort to British Remainers hoping to pull the same stunt here in 2019. What could possibly go wrong?
But none of these examples provides remotely accurate templates for the next few weeks and months in the Brexit debate. For no EU member state other than the UK has ever given the right to its citizens to decide whether they wish to remain in the EU. Riding roughshod over citizens’ opinion on the latest EU treaty is one thing – overturning an explicit wish to remove ourselves from the EU altogether is surely to be recognised as an unprecedented and audacious step to take.

I had assumed that Apollo had the funds and were not seeking to burden the company with large debt.
Worrying that Bloomberg making comments :
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC has, according to Bloomberg, had to fund the majority of its offer for FTSE 250-listed packaging maker RPC Group PLC in dollar and euro loans.

Bloomberg quoted people close to the deal saying the small portion of the deal that is funded in sterling is more expensive than the other currencies because lenders fear that a no-deal Brexit will damage the UK economy. This could cause the pound to fall further. .

Words - Majority - i.e. £1.5 billion. or more. A real concern

NO BL
Joel Barnet formula written on the back of a fag packet. Nobody seems able to understand the formula - so it still stands

Apollo poised to buy for more than $3.8b doesn't help us. That is the current valuation based on closing SP.

Why are MPs paid?
Listening to the drivel from some who want to drag nuclear disarmament into the debate in the HOC and the SNP who seemingly do not understand - and that is why the annual settlement for Scotland is greater than that for England because they do have learning difficulties - i.e. they do not seem to understand anything in the HOC - but won't stop making pointless comments.

People vote for these clowns?

The Labour Party leadership is not likely to be quaking in its boots at the prospect, raised by David Lammy yesterday, that the party might split unless Jeremy Corbyn agrees to support efforts to hold a second referendum on Britain’s EU membership.
Mr Lammy’s claim, made during an interview with Andrew Marr of the BBC, was bold… up to a point. “There are a small group in our party who are so frustrated, who have so much grievance, the fear is they are going to go off and form another party..”
Whoa! This is fighting talk! It’s mould-breaking stuff. In one sentence the Tottenham MP suggested the return of the terrible 1980s, when the moderate SDP was created from a split among moderate MPs, hobbling Labour’s electoral prospects for the next decade or more.
And then came the point, made in a David Brent-like way: “I personally reject that, but…”
Ah. There we have it.
One can almost imagine David Lammy prevaricating in a sketch reminiscent of The Office:
“Not me, you understand. Nah, me and Jez…” (crosses fingers for the camera) “… we’re like that, yeah?” So who are these devious, disloyal fifth columnists who might tear the party asunder over Brexit? “Hmm?” (shrugs shoulders). “You know, certain… individuals… probably. But let’s not talk about that, let’s work together, yeah? United…” (threads fingers of both hands together, nods sagely at the camera with eyes closed…)

Wids
Yes net salary!
French tax, Dutch tax very heavy - so comparison Q?? Dutch state pensions are much higher than UK

fraid lots of the comparatives are without real value.

Work in Holland but live in Germany - tax is an issue. Work and live in Holland wow - tax!

We in uk pay too much tax for what we as tax payers get out of it. We are a soft option for opt outs

French Malbec - ca depends. Try Gigondas, try the blackcurranty Carcassone - phaps a Fitou

We need to get this out of the gutter. nothing wrong with the company or its order book. increasing divi.
Some PIs are running scared. HL advice this week - if you have selected for divi and value - just sit tight.

Many have sold through fear. Then why invest?

Just an aside in the absence of real share push from LB
Surely any comment is acceptable - relevant to the SP or otherwise.

MPs to be recalled?
Former cabinet ministers attempting to block a no-deal Brexit are to face members of their local Tory parties amid a backlash over their actions in Parliament.
Sir Oliver Letwin and Sir Michael Fallon's Conservative associations have both convened meetings so members can confront their MPs about their involvement in bids to prevent the UK from leaving the EU without a deal.
Members of Sir Oliver's West Dorset association, which he has represented for 22 years, expressed surprise at his attempt to usurp the Government's control over the parliamentary timetable, said he appeared to have "gone rogue".
A survey of Sir Michael's Sevenoaks association found that two-thirds backed a no-deal Brexit, putting them at odds with their MP.
Both MPs rebelled against the Government on January 8, to back a Commons amendment which would limit the Government's scope to make tax changes following a no-deal departure.
Sir Oliver has since helped to construct a mechanism to allow backbenchers to seize control of the Commons order paper in an attempt to force an extension of the Article 50 notice period under which the UK would otherwise leave the EU on March 29.
He insists the UK is not properly prepared for a no-deal Brexit and said he fears " serious short-term disruption" from a no-deal exit.
Paulette Furse, the chairman of Sir Michael's Sevenoaks association, said a survey she had conducted found that two thirds of local Tory members wanted the country to leave without a deal.
"It’s our job as Conservatives to prepare go out on World Trade Organisation terms and stick to our manifesto of delivering Brexit," she said.
"It’s the only thing to do now because the EU have made it clear they’re not going to budge and have said they’ve given us the best deal they’re going to give."
Sir Michael voted against Theresa May's deal, saying it was the "worst of all worlds".
But explaining his opposition to a no-deal outcome, he said: "I've always worried about no deal because of tariffs in the short term and disruption here in Kent."
Planning Minister Nick Boles CREDIT: CLARA MOLDEN
The West Dorset association is due to hold a special general meeting on Friday evening to give members an opportunity to question Sir Oliver, who is due to retire at the next election, about his recent actions in Parliament.
On the same evening Nick Boles is due to face his Grantham & Stamford association, many of whom have written to the group's chairman calling for him to be deselected as a Tory candidate.
An invitation from Chris Loder, Sir Oliver's association chairman, was sent out to members on January 9, the day after the MP broke the Conservative whip to vote in favour of a cross-party amendment to the Finance Bill.
One member said: "There is a perception that he has gone rogue and turned up in the [pro-Remain MP] Anna Soubry camp and a lot of people are very surprised by that."
Ms Furse said: "I did my own survey and just over two thirds of our m

And these MPswill have to learn
"The public have voted and it’s seriously disrespectful and politically utterly counterproductive to say ‘sorry guys’ you’ve got it wrong, we’re going to try again.”
So said Vince Cable in September 2016, three months after 17.1m voters opted to the leave the European Union, the biggest expression of democracy in British history.
Now, of course, the Liberal Democrat leader wants a second referendum. “We’ve moved on,” he said last week. “The situation has changed.” Really? The “situation”, as far as I can see, remains the same.
Parliament voted overwhelmingly to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. The Government sent an “information leaflet” to 27m UK households, deeply skewed towards Remain, but with a solemn promise: “This is your decision – the Government will implement what you decide”.
After the June 2016 referendum, Parliament voted to trigger Article 50. In June 2017, 82pc of voters then backed either the Tories or Labour in the general election, with both pledging to “implement the referendum result”, leaving the EU’s single market and customs union. The Scottish National Party and Cable’s Lib Dems, on platforms opposing Brexit, both saw their vote share plunge.
The UK economy has held up well, despite endless doom-mongering from the overwhelmingly anti-Brexit media class. British firms raised by far the most venture capital in the EU last year – over 70pc more than France or Germany. The UK has just been voted the world’s best place to do business by Forbes magazine. The catastrophist Remainers are woefully out of touch.
Yet, while a clear majority of British voters chose to leave the EU, almost four fifths of MPs backed Remain. Emboldened by Theresa May’s bungling, they’re now using fearmongering and Parliamentary chicanery to stop the UK leaving a supranational body which has become sclerotic, anti-democratic, instinctively protectionist and corrupt.

Vince Cable and other remainers want to see a second referendum
After last week’s shuddering defeat, the Prime Minister must tomorrow inform MPs of her intentions, ahead of another vote at the end of this month. When she loses that, an overwhelmingly pro-Remain Parliament will then seek to take control – possibly reversing Brexit altogether.
Having voted for legislation letting Britain leave the EU on World Trade Organisation terms, many MPs now want to “rule out no deal”. If Jeremy Corbyn thinks Britain can keep negotiating with the EU having guaranteed it can’t “walk away”, he needs bargaining lessons from his trade-union brethren.
Trading with the EU under WTO rules – as we do with the US, China and much of the rest of the world – is entirely acceptable. One by one, the scare stories are crumbling. Dover is ready for no deal. Planes will fly. Controversial new infrastructure on the Irish border is avoidable. Just-in-time UK-EU supply chains will continue, just as they do over the US-Canada border.
The demonisation of WTO ru