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Yet another year gone without sparklers...

T212 was absolutely brilliant -- 2 years ago. Now it absolutely blows. The usability sucks, real-time pricing to the second has gone, and it has become painful to use.

Try one of the established players, like iWeb (owned by Lloyds Bank).

Economist did a recent update on lab meat. It's a bearish outlook for now.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/12/12/will-lab-grown-meat-ever-make-it-onto-supermarket-shelves

Good to see some happiness on LLOY, at last.

Looks like the LLOY uptick is being driven mostly by the technical rebound of US bank stocks bouncing off their record all-time relative lows.

Simply can't believe anyone still takes any notice of the BoE, ONS or CBI. All they ever do is talk down the UK economy and push out rubbish numbers.

UK rates are coming down in 2024. Where the US leads, the UK always follows.

Nasdaq is up nearly +50% since Oct 2022.

The US stockmarket and economy are truly remarkable.

Are they polishing up the website for another placing, fundraising or share issuance?

As predicted, on here, 1-2 years ago...

Over-reliance on China is dragging down the fund.

HFEL jumped in... just as the rest of the world jumped out.

Rookie error.

Keep an eye on that sub-200p level. Sentiment here remains very bearish.

UK house market is in pretty good shape, considering it has been battered nonstop for the past 10 years by artificial Brexit hysteria, Covid, and calamitous Bank of England inflation "policies".

A good innings.

Buffett the true genius of the pair.

Wish people would stop bringing up those tired old NHS clichés.

The UK NHS receives a staggering $200b a year and has an astonishing 2 million staff. It's the 3rd best-funded healthcare service on the entire planet out of 200 countries, and it's the 4th biggest company on the whole planet among a world of 8b people. The NHS is not underfunded and not understaffed in any way whatsoever. Any national or local problems are entirely self-inflicted. Chaotic disorganisation by chaotic senior managers, and a culture of misery and self-loathing (deliberately) whipped up by the red unions.

What's more, UK NHS staff churn typically hovers around 5-15%, which is entirely in line with normal levels for the UK economy, and has been for decades. There is no staffing "crisis" whatsoever. Churn is a perfectly normal part of doing everyday business.

Please stop the tired NHS clichés.

Opinion polls today are often wildly wrong. What people say in public, and what box they tick in the privacy of the democratic voting booth, are increasingly two different things. Brexit, Trump, Boris, Wilders, you see the same pattern of mis-surveying over and over again.

Wilders won the democratic vote this week on a Nexit ticket... Wouldn't be a surprise at all to see a 50-50 result if Holland holds a real EU referendum in 2024-25.

A spring or summer election looks quite likely now. Expect even more generous tax cuts early next year.

Lol.

Daily Mail is the world's most popular and most widely read e-newspaper on all of planet Earth. A great British company and success story.

Have another link or two.

London is the world's no.1 city for 9 years in a row. It beat 4 million rival cities and major towns! London is the capital of capitals. The greatest place on the entire globe, bar none.

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/london-has-just-been-named-the-best-city-in-the-world-100323

https://secretldn.com/london-ranked-best-city-in-the-world/

London this week has picked up yet another major award as the world's no.1 city worldwide for 2024. London is now the capital of capitals. No other major city on Earth even comes close. Looking like another Brexit bonus.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-12774333/The-best-100-cities-planet-ranked-despite-Brexit-London-thats-No-1-followed-Paris-New-York-does-favourite-city-come-list.html

Https://www.fool.co.uk/2023/11/19/8-4-dividend-yield-heres-the-dividend-forecast-for-lloyds-shares-to-2025/

..."The last 13 years have been a disaster... infrastructure is a mess .... the NHS never gets any better... wealthy remain unaffected as per normal ...the houses get bigger....more holidays...more new range rovers. ....while the poor get poorer"...

UK has added 2k extra miles of road, 15 million more plane travellers, and 100 million more rail journeys since 2010... UK life expectancy has gone up from 80yo to 81yo, the population is living longer (even with Covid)... The Gini coefficient (inequality) has improved +3% since 2010...

It's important not to get carried away with hysterical Marxist propaganda. The Conservatives have had a hard slog to clear up the Labour-led -23% economic collapse of 2007-2009, and things are finally starting to bear fruit in 2023.

Keep in mind that the Labour govt (Brown-Blair) brought about an unprecedented and astonishing -23% collapse in UK GDP per-head in just 2 short years between 2007 and 2009. Labour left the country in severe decline and with no money left in the pot. Much like the 1970s.

Conservatives have spent the past 13 years clearing up that Labour disaster from the 2000s. And we're now starting to see the fruits of Tory recovery in the 2020s. The UK defeated the Scottish separatist movement in 2014, gained Brindependence for the Mother of All Parliaments in 2016, is the world's fastest-growing G7 major economy in 2021 and 2022, overtook France to become Europe's 8th largest manufacturing country in 2023, EU exports sit at record highs, and UK will easily outgrow the shrinking Eurozone in 2024.

So, be careful what you wish for... A Labour govt by 2025 is more than likely to slam UK banks with a bitter windfall tax. Labour is no friend of LLOY (or the UK).

The Middle East will improve next year. There is a US election coming up in Nov 2024. Bet yer bottom dollar there will be a miraculous ceasefire or peace deal by Israel-Gaza, just as election campaigning starts in H1 2024.

Another good sign for the UK economy.

That reads (to me) like a stealth pre-advert for a selloff of the LSE... Polishing it up in the public mind.