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Now that we have the ignominy of Allardyce could it be possible for the whole Country to stop and consider the obscene greed that sours almost every corner of UK life? It really is time for things to change.
Do you need a new goalie?
When I think of my one and only incident with RBS, I invited them to loan me £35K for a month to let me buy a small business, I needed the month to sell another property, and they refused. The Bank next door was instant in its approval. I subsequently sold the new business some years later for over £400K. Kind of confirms the RBS management skill level we are witnessing today. Sack the lot of them! Schoolkids could do a better job.
For some the moon is over £5
Don't see that as any different from many other shares.
Don't see that as any different from many other shares.
Yes it was, what a dream!
All this projection reminds me of where we were two or three years ago!
We elect our politicians to do what they consider best based upon the expertise of their civil servants and other expert advisers. We have to believe they know what are the rights and wrongs and actions required. It is very easy for us to sit afterwards and tell them they got it wrong but I would suggest most of them will say that they would do the same again. It would have been very easy to stay out of Iraq but who knows what may have happened if we had? Certainly there will be more research and consideration given to similar situations in future. In the meantime our leaders must deal with what is in front of them and they must have our support.
Everywhere has its own equation, I don't know the numbers but I would guess that almost half the resident population of Arran are English, indeed, one village is known as "Little Yorkshire". Like you I have lived abroad, Portugal and France, with great memories and lots to commend them, but I chose not to stay in either,
I have visited Arran for over seventy years and lived on it for over twenty years when I had a holiday business, the weather is little different from anywhere else, eg: the whole Whitsun week was wall to wall sunshine and 22-25 degrees, somewhat different from what we heard from family and friends in the East Midlands. People talk about the Scottish weather but they forget what it can be like down here. OK, I will grant that Scotland gets some more rain than England but much of it falls at night and in lumps, it is rare for it rain a whole day, there's almost always part of the day that is dry and good for golf or other outdoor pursuits. Just to ease the matter of traffic, there's a road 56 miles right around the Island, most people do the circuit at least once during their stay. If they see a hundred other vehicles in a circuit then it would be 'busy'. Similarly beaches, there are miles of beach where you can be totally alone. Wonderful for taking the dog for a walk!
The big problem around the coast, almost anywhere, is the number of people and the traffic. If you are really interested in a coastal location let me suggest you have a week or two on the Isle of Arran, possibly the nearest to perfect you will find in terms of location, unspoiled, a cottage hospital, access to mainland is just one hour, an hour and a half to Glasgow Airport, and even in high summer when there are 'lots' of visitors they seem to disperse and the roads are never busy. Right now there are a lot of properties for sale. We had a week there at Whitsun, it was idyllic.
Good to see you are still in the wings. What can be said to Thales? My guess is that the new Chancellor will do as I have done and put RBS in a less prominent position, ie: just leave it alone until better times. In the past I would have taken profit and bought into something else, then I did a year or so following mailman's system. Now I am sitting on a holding about 25% of what I once held. My thinking at present is to sit on these until the dreamed of £4. I have a number of other holdings that I bought low and promise future gains. The one that got away was BATS, bought at 3800 and sold at 4100, look at it now! As far as RBS dividend is concerned I would still look for this within three years but that will depend on how well the economy responds to the new situation. Everything is up for grabs at the moment but my feeling is the UK machine will respond positively, the next few years could be quite exciting, as it is already. ATB
It seems a reporter was having a chat with Sir Bobby Charlton and asked him how he thought the team of 1966 would fare against Iceland.. Sir Bobby pondered for a moment then suggested they might win 2-0. Is that all, asked the reporter, you put four past Germany, why only two against Iceland? Come on, said Sir Bobby, we are all in our seventies!
I reckon you will do well at 1.554 and 2.38. It may take a while but I think it is pretty sure to pass this in the next year. GL.
We vote for our politicians, we get those we vote for. The reason we do this is to pass the responsibility of serious national decisions away from ourselves to those we think are better equipped to make such decisions. They can only work from the information they are given. We cannot ever think that they will be right in all they do and that sometimes means mistakes will be made. In this instance clearly very serious but, as I suggested, there could still be a ten tonne truck full of WMD standing in a shaded corner anywhere in Iraq, a huge country. Are you brave enough to suggest that could not be the fact? What is the most difficult decision you have ever made?
One ten tonne truckfull would wipe out the whole of Europe, What value the report if the truck is found?I never did like Tony Blair but I don't agree with the language being used against him by those protesting.
Does it take a football result to turn the market? Yesterday, every one of my shares was showing red, today every one is blue. Surely nowt to do with footie? What else? I guess yesterday was reflecting the immediate panic following the vote, maybe today some calm is returning?
Has LSE closed down?
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