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Lol.

You folks are always on the wrong side of history...

The Tories won in 2010 and remain in power today in 2023. Labour lost... Tories won ScotRef in 2014. SNP and Labour lost... Brexit won in 2016. Remainers and Labour lost... UK grew fastest in the G7 worldwide in 2021 and 2022... UK GDP outgrew all of G7 outside North America since Covid... UK will again outgrow Germany in 2023...

It's getting tiresome having to point this out so often.

The Tories are the world's most successful democratic party of the past two centuries. And the UK economy is among the strongest of all the G7 worldwide.

Lefties and Remainers -- who keep losing -- don't like to hear it!

But themz the facts 😉

https://www.cityam.com/doomsayers-proved-wrong-uk-had-third-fastest-covid-recovery-in-g7-revised-gdp-data-now-shows/

..."For the UK it was very easy to avoid a recession because it had crap growth to begin with"...

Stop spreading these outright lies. And shame on the people who upvoted such self-loathing nonsense.

UK is the world's fastest-growing G7 economy worldwide for 2 years on a row. UK is the world's fastest-recovering G7 economy postcovid outside North America. UK is outgrowing Germany this year. UK growth is doing jus fine.

All that's gonna happen here is the UK taxpayer and VCs will pump billions of our subsidies into startups... And then the best ones will all be sold off to America and the tech packed off abroad... Like ARM, Inmarsat, etc... This is (effectively) just a feeder program for the US economy.

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As predicted -- months ago -- HFEL plunging under the 210p level. The shareprice is back to 2007 levels!

Any test of the 200p threshold here before Xmas will hit sentiment like a sledgehammer. The 180p all-time low is within touching distance.

China continues to struggle and drag down Asia and thus the HFEL shareprice.

As predicted -- 2 years ago -- JMAT is plunging under the £15 threshold.

All eyes now on the £10 level.

JMAT's journey here looks probably like a takeover from the US or Europe, shift the HQ abroad, close the UK factories, and outsource production to cheaper Asia.

Good Brexit bonus for the City 👍

Yes, the EU remains in sharp decline. Its 2nd-biggest member has left, GDP-per-head has slumped to nearly half that of America, the tap of cheap Russian gas has been turned off, China and US are wrecking its petro-vehicle industry, while Germany and France barrel toward yet another downturn.

Working from home (WFH) is, really, relaxing from home (RFH). Know someone who works in IT for a hospital, and he spends most of his day snoozing, watching TV, or washing his car.

Asp1 / Hardup,

Given LLOY has declined almost every year for the past quarter of a century, it is amazing how many folks predict a massive rise.

Interesting thread.

It looks like 90-95% of all predictions are going to be wrong (wildly wrong)!

Eng very careless in the rugby. Failed to consolidate their huge early lead. Outsmarted by fresh subs in the final 15mins.

Let's not mention the cricket.

European folks had been asking for a modern Israel state since at least 1896 and the Theodor Herzl (Hungary) era. Britain accelerated the process in 1917. And finalized it in 1948. Britain ran the world in the first half of the 20th century and carved up half the planet at the flick of a pen.

Wouldn't read too much into the polls. There are still 6-15 months left to go. Not to mention those polls are often wildly wrong. Half of all bets by volume today are still being placed on the Tories. It ain't over yet ;-)

Looks (provisionally) like a diesel SUV started the blaze. Perhaps fuel, fluid, lubricant, or maybe the small battery.

It's going to take years to unwind all the insurance liabilities, for the crumpled carpark, loss of business, and 100+ toasted vehicles. The owner of the diesel SUV could be making a claim for £50m on his claim form!

Labour conference was scary. We're (basically) back in the 1970s.

Labour want to tax children (private schools)... snatch tax money from successful adults (non-doms)... and concrete over the green countryside where seniors live (1m Tupperware boxes).

Young, middle or old, red Labour are coming for your cash...

UEFA can see the New UK and its qualities shining thru. Football's coming home 👍

Along with America recently voting the UK the world's no.1 best country, this is yet another independent vote of confidence in the new Brexit Britain. The wave of good news just keeps on coming 😉

Yes, the scenery is beautiful up-north. But it's very hard to make a good living there. A 28yo can easily make 200k a year in London, in the finance, tech, AI sectors, etc. That kind of dosh is beyond the wildest dreams of almost everyone north of St Albans and west of Reading. If you want to make good money, it has to be in (central) London.

UK (with Ireland) has today been chosen to host the Euro 2028 football tourney. Great news.

Another Brexit bonus ;-)

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/04/uk-and-ireland-set-to-host-euro-2028-after-turkey-withdraw-bid