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Ant

''99% are not illegal''

you need to brush up on your maths.

1 in 12 people living in London are illegal .

The UK probably has getting on for 1.5 million illegals .

Dcb

''whites in Glasgow.''

well that is a surprise you dumbass

Making early repayments of high interest debt would be of great benefit - debt to market cap ratio is currently horrendous - hopefully we get a rising share price along with debt repayments to get the ratio below 100% in the next year or two.

I was a buyer of the stock at very low prices, with 2 of the last 3 purchases a little above the £1 mark and the other at about 82p, but consider myself fully invested for this stock now.

I did not consider SAGA to be a 'sell' at these low pricing levels even when things were looking bleak,which is why I retained all of my purchases since my partial sale at over £4 in May 2021 (obviously should have sold more).

SAGA is currently the laggard in my portfolio, but things can change.

Tesco was once my laggard, but now it is at a very healthy profitable level.

That ever increasing numbers of people in the country is fantastic for the populations economics, with more immigration the better.

How is it that with probable a 5 fold increase in population over the last 2 hundred years, that our GDP per capita is no more than half that of Ireland with their population about the same as 200 years ago?

It seems clear where our problems have stemmed from in recent times.

Ant

''You still holding out for £40 Billion? ''

Yes, but it would only be a small sale, as £40 Billion would still be a low valuation in my opinion - but market thinking and rapid market movements have to be taken into consideration when deciding on purchase and sale levels

Aviva reached another 52 week high

HSBC reached yet another 16 year high

LLOY reached a 5 year high and up to a low current valuation of £37.9 Billion

G13b

''What do you do for a living DCB ? 6th time of asking. ''

He is an Irish Gypsy, so I imagine following the traditional sort of 'work'

Bt

'' paid from top ups from capital ''

not again - complete nonsense.

Any necessary top ups to dividends would come from the dividend reserve.

THAT IS WHAT IT IS FOR- but not often needed to be used. Indeed excess income is now topping up the reserve as per my previous post.

Tfe

''I think HFD surprised us all Lti''

After I made a sale at about £4 on 26th April 2021, it left me with some 'for free'

shares.I thought that I would purchase some back at a low price on 25th June 2024.

Only a very small investment for me (I use Halford's for MOT's on a car that I inherited), so not too fussed about the share price performance, but obviously would want any UK business to do well.

BAT reached another near 2 year high

HFD well up on trading update

LLOY remains at about a low £37 Billion valuation

Lr

''Some regions 25% Increases in Council Tax''

and the crazy thing is that council tax can be put up to any level but still not be reflected at all in CPI inflation figures.

Ireland - little Britain due to being the smaller island within the British isles

Brittany - Little Britain due to the population that lived there

Dcb

''So now we had two places called Britain. It made sense to call the bigger one Great Britain''

wrong - it was already 'Great' Britain centuries before some Britons moved to Brittany which has also been referred to as Little Britain.

MV

''When Ireland came part of the union, the Term United Kingdom of Great Britain was then the correct term if i remember correctly.''

It was United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - then

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -

just UK for short.

The Great in' Great Britain; is simply because it was the largest island within the British isles. One of the earliest names for Ireland was Little Britain, being the smaller one within the British isles.

Dcb

''The 'Great' most certainly is long gone''

what a plonker you are - the 'Great' is geographical

BAT well up to near 2 year highs

IMB reached another 6 year high

LLOY at about a low £37 Billion valuation - good for buybacks

Not good - they were the hopeful new big British chocolate company. Sad to see it swallowed up by an overseas concern just as Cadbury and Rowntree were

Rock

''I thought there was a bit more mileage in it to 3500, not sure about a PT of 3900 being achieved anytime soon though''

BAT at a near 2 year high - only downside is that buybacks are getting slightly more expensive but obviously still a great investment for shareholders.

BAT reached £55 in 2017

NC

''For the same reason YOU have not re-mortgaged the house or taken out massive loans to buy in to this 'low valuation share IF you are 'oh so sure" ''

Sensible people would not borrow money to put into the stock market.

I preferred to purchase a lot more at far lower valuations than the present one.

The valuation is a lot nearer to my next selling point of £40 Billion than any purchase valuation. Happy to see lower prices to benefit buybacks - in no rush to sell any.

The book of Noah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xggQqUyLrCM