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Well thanks for saving us all from ourselves, Pogo, it's really appreciated /s

Wow a full blown Trumper, what a piece.

Rather than talk about how Trump has extorted paramount, do you have any comment about how Fox doctored Trump's response to releasing the Epstein files? Thought not.

More Kool Aid?

GEM ticked up

I disagree, Trek, respectfully.

Part of the problem is that we don't allow people who are seeking asylum to work and pay taxes and then we underfund the processing of their applications so they're left hanging around in limbo for much longer than they, or we, want them to be. Then we start shouting about how much it costs to keep them hangin around in limbo. Insanity. About half of them are eventually rejected and deported, it's actually quite difficult to claim asylum successfully.

There is no legal way for people from many war torn countries to enter the UK so labelling people as illegal isn't very meaningful and doesn't help when it comes to sorting out the wheat from the chaff, genuine asylum seekers from the economic migrants.

Actual illegal immigrants don't get anything of course, they can't make any claims and would be deported if they tried.

The money we spend on asylum seekers amounts to 0.015% of national income.

Most asylum seekers in recent years are Ukrainian and Hong Kongers.

Seems to me the country has seen years of mismanagement and under-investment in infrastructure and services and not much of that has anything at all to do with the desperate people arriving on our shores seeking sanctuary, despite what the handful of media barons that control the national dialogue might want you to believe.

I do agree that anybody coming here needs to embrace our way of life and values: freedom of expression, equality under the law, religious tolerance etc. No question.

All fair points, Trek.

My views differ on the UNCHR, because those are my rights and I'm not willing to give them up. It's a mistake to think you're only taking them away from someone else, you're taking them from yourself and who knows when we might need them, esp the way the world is at atm. The whole immigrant debate is out of all proportion to the size of the problem, as it always has been throughout history with some minority or other being the target. Maybe if we didn't bomb people so much that would be a better solution to the refugee issue, rather than giving up our rights so we can be callous to those we see as 'others'.

Just my 2 penneth

The selling looks exhausted now, well overdone

So cut spending and half the country goes on strike or raise taxes and the other half take to the streets in protest.

No easy answers, rock and a hard place.

Crazy to think this was 28p just 9 months ago.

Back from the brink and now looking very positive, it's always darkest before dawn.

Replacing the outdated and indefensible hereditary peer system with an elected second chamber is about as far from communism as you can get. Do you know the meaning of any of the words you write or bother with even the most basic research? And all stated with such confidence, perfect example of the Dunning Kruger effect.

Agree, I think they'll do a production update next week, they'll have been running about a month by then

Re WSBN: I have a policy of avoiding anything that David Lenigas has anything to do with and it has served me well.

Doesn't really matter which particular market its listed on, it's got all the usual hallmarks

Don't do it, you'll be throwing good money after bad. If something extraordinary takes place then you'll benefit anyway from the 5k you've already sunk.

AIM is super high risk, especially miners, lots of life-style companies set-up to provide directors with a cushy living. I think most people keep most of their money in boring funds and ftse100/250 companies but come to AIM for a bit of a dabble with money they're prepared to lose. Personally I would never invest any serious money in a company that doesn't generate reliable revenue and profit, which I guess would be about 90% of AIM.

Tro: "hex.....16.45 to buy atm"

26.45 right?

The wkly chart for Hex is something to behold - starting its 7th consecutive week of rises, got legs:

https://invst.ly/1b6spu

Crazy

High probability of news on monday, strange to see the price go down ahead of that

No worries. I had a quick trade with NEO back when all the hype was happening but not very interested now. Suspension always puts me off, just look at PPP, not sure if that's ever coming back.