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we are not in the middle east or ****stan.

"britain is a secular liberal democracy, and the vast majority of people want it to stay that way”

Any country can apply to join NATO, but can only join when all NATO Countries agree in their parliaments.

Interestingly Russia was offered a NATO place in the early days way back.

I wondered why their two Bank shares quoted here have been dropping...

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BGEO:LON?window=1Y

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TBCG:LON?window=1Y

The company’s position is that it is exploring “an orderly sale of the Group’s trading business (including IP)”, with the goal of continuing to return surplus cash to shareholders.

Its cash balance was £20m as of July 2024, and it then spent £3m to finish a share buyback. The cost base is £6m.

The current controversy relates to an attempt by a Cayman Island-registered fund (“Milkwood”) to appoint two people to the Board of Nanoco. Apparently - according to the Chairman of Nanoco - Milkwood’s intention is to retain surplus cash and convert Nanoco into an investment company.

Today’s news: the two main proxy advisory services, ISS and Glass Lewis, who advise institutions on how to vote their shares, have both recommended voting against Milkwood’s resolutions.

Graham’s view: Milkwood only owns 8% of Nanoco and my instinct is that investors are more likely than not to organise against them so that cash is returned rather than retained in the company. But I don’t know which way the vote will go.

I like Milkwood, but have doubts about the inherent value of the underlying business, and the stock is now trading at a premium to its shrinking cash pile. Let's see if they can sell the underlying business for a decent price.

https://app.stockopedia.com/content/daily-stock-market-report-fri-29-nov-2024-eah-1016439?order=createdAt&sort=desc&mode=threaded

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TROAJAN

The Yanks should never have pulled out, handing in over to POOtin to flatten.

Bassel al-Assad was to take over from his father Hafez al-Assad, but died in a car crash

Bashar al-Assad was at the time attending postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital in London and so was called back. He took over when's his father died in 2000.

A series of crackdowns in 2001–02 ended the Damascus Spring, a period of cultural and political activism marked by calls for transparency and democracy. A civil war ensured.

Assad's presidency is a highly personalist dictatorship, which governs Syria as a totalitarian police state, and has been characterised by numerous human rights violations and severe repression. A truly awful man. If he was taken out, Syria would be better place although much of it lays in ruins.

Vote in 2029....until then

JUST SUCK IT UP BOYS😂😂😂

Unlike you BLOOMER I give people a chance.

I would avoid you like the plague. Hateful person...

Should help GOLD/SILVER

hopefully.

Yes BREXIT went well....

The Tories refused to process the boat people DELIBERATELY.

Because the Illegal Migration Act was passed that made it lawful to lock them up and not process them if they arrived by boat. They were all put them into hundreds of hotels and run up massive tax payer bills. (hotels were most probably owned by Tory donors/friends...)

"small boat crossings, cannot make a claim for asylum or protection, regardless of their need for protection."

After the Labour government won the UK general election in July 2024, the Illegal Migration Act has now been effectively ended.

This has all cost BILLIONS and will take several years too clear. AND HAS BEEN CAUSED BY THE TORIES.

Does he take the pi ss out of the Tories as well.

There is no easy solution to complex problems. It involves multiple tasks and patience.

The reason that populists abound is they offer simplistic solutions that appeal to many.

But as we saw in Trump they just don't work. Building just 400 miles of the Mexican wall was awful in 4 years. Farage/Johnson brought Brexit upon us. We are now losing over £100b of trade and the EU far more. That and a lack of investment is truly killing us.

Thanks..

did you read my post re-cost of immigration

1. Since the late 1990s, net migration to the UK has been rising and records regularly broken. The high-water mark was 745,000 in 2022 (originally reported by the Office for National Statistics as 606,000). The charts and table in this revamped tracker will automatically update every day in the late afternoon.

10 years ago...

SECTOR

You are completely WRONG.

I don't post lies..

LOOK from 1991>>>

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/migration-statistics-over-time

The Tories refused to process the boat people DELIBERATELY.

Because the Illegal Migration Act was passed that made it lawful to lock them up and not process them if they arrived by boat. They were all put them into hundreds of hotels and run up massive tax payer bills. (hotels were most probably owned by Tory donors/friends...)

"small boat crossings, cannot make a claim for asylum or protection, regardless of their need for protection."

After the Labour government won the UK general election in July 2024, the Illegal Migration Act has now been effectively ended.

This has all cost BILLIONS and will take several years too clear. AND HAS BEEN CAUSED BY THE TORIES.

This massive surge in immigration was all down to BREXIT and that clown JOHNSON.

Brexit officially took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET).

"Send them lots of our money to do feck all…"

But U love that with Rwanda.....don't you.

Lee

Rwanda cost us billions and failed after years of trying everything.

Obviously you must be v happy with that.

You can vote in 2029

Shipman is believed to have murdered more than 250 people – and there are possibly more that will never be known.

Shipman hanged himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison, on 13 
January 2004, one day before his 58th birthday,