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Re: Shell
Just looked back and these were my purchases during 2020.
19/03/2020 - 926p
16/04/2020 - 1281p
01/05/2020 - 1222p
02/10/2020 - 891p

I remember comments at the time between Lti and me.

Just saying.

"The level of ignorance on this board regarding this subject (and many others) is astonishing."
Oracle of Delphi, better known as Gazzleberry has spoken.

You need to practice what you preach Epro. You know why France's CPI is about 6%, or should do. Clue, it ain't Macron and it ain't the EU. Stop cherry picking and while you're at it, stop going on about brexit.

Word is, the government are looking at hammering hard-working, self-employed people by halving the current tax-free dividend allowance, and increasing taxes on dividends beyond the annual limit.
Just saying.

"The beginning of the severe hardship for the masses...IMHO"
Correct MD, this will focus people's minds, like, how can I get the maximum benefits from the government.

Only 5 minutes to go, who's going to be first in the race here to announce the latest base rate?
On your marks!!!

"in the wake of Liz Truss’s chaotic mini-Budget"

Worry is shared by tens of millions throughout the eurozone who’re reckoning with a collection of aggressive price hikes by the European Central Bank in response to rampant inflation. For households, the effect of financial tightening on their mortgages comes as power and meals costs devour an increasing share of their budgets.

https://www.businesslend.com/business/the-wolf-is-coming-rising-rates-push-spains-homeowners-to-the-brink/

Seems Liz Truss actions have far wider implications than even the media imagined. Wonder why they don't report it?

That word trussnomics so often repeated by the UK knockers is fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon.

19-year old climate crusader Greta Thunberg has finally said the quiet part out loud: it’s time to go whole hog and overthrow capitalism. Speaking at her book launch last night – of course she’s got a book – the world’s postergirl for climate change declared.
“We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting… [climate change] has its roots in ******, oppressive extractivism that is exploiting both people and the planet to maximise short-term profits for a few…”

The book isn’t called Marxism for Teenagers, although it might as well be.

Machiismo when you first appeared on this forum I posted after the nature of your posts was clear, "you have no standing on here"
Many thanks Mach, for having just proved it.

These are the sort of sh*t stirring comments that start the political divide on this Lloyds forum.
What is the relevance of potentially, a couple of hundred jobs lost whilst accentuating cleaning and social care work?
Gazzleberry you are an embittered lefty SNP loser.

Talking of Rogue landlords, reports I've seen of atrocious living conditions by some tennant's with damp conditions and associated flaws were all the fault of landlords.... Local council landlords.

"and those pushed into buying because they had no choice? 'cos of job / family / nothing else around"
I didn't write those words m999.

"Even if someone does not have sympathy for those people or feel any responsibiity for voting for Brexit and the Tories"
This bloke Epro is something else.

Get over yourself grayling or are you another one that thought low base rates were gonna be with us forever.
I'm as caring as the next man but some of these 'smug' as you call them have a brain the size of a split pea.

One in four mortgage holders won't be able to afford £100 rise in monthly payments and almost half will struggle if they rise £250, says Citizens Advice.
You've had the good times when everyone was chucking money at you.
Overstretched yourselves?
Oh well, It's not fair, is it. Welcome to the real world where you can't have everything at once, or get a loan until things improve, I believe that's what most of you usually do.
I have no sympathy.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-11361933/One-four-mortgage-holders-wont-afford-monthly-payments-rise-100-says-Citizens-Advice.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors increased their bets on the Bank of England raising its benchmark rate by a full percentage point on Nov. 3 after the government of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delayed an announcement of its tax and spending plans until mid-November.
Interest rate futures put the chance of a 100 basis-point rate hike by the BoE at about 37%, higher than before the announcement of the delay.

"Euro zone banks sit on 2.1 trillion euros of cash handed out by the ECB at ultra-low, sometimes even negative rates, aimed at boosting the economy.

But quick and big rate hikes mean banks can park this cash back at the ECB, earning a risk-free profit, irking policymakers who view it as gaming the system.

Policymakers are believed to be closing in on a deal to change rules governing the loans to banks, a move that would shave tens of billions of euros off in potential banking profits. A decision could come on Thursday."

"Suella Braverman resigned for Ministerial Code breach/security lapse."
The usual dumb f* ckwit comments surfacing on here from the no nothing morons.
That was the official version, try looking a bit deeper instead of your usual lefty sources and believing it, prats.
The first idiot posts it and all the other idiots repeat.
The chuckle brothers used to do that. To me to you, to me to you.
Every labour shadow spokesman or if you're pc, spokesperson repeats the same message to different questions because they can't think for themselves. Monkey see monkey do.
I despair.

There's that word again,
"sunny uplands"
That's remoaners btw describing the EU.

I guess I asked for that Highveld.
Just a few points.
The UK's current economic position is not unlike the US and Europe as we are all still recovering from covid measures, a war in Europe, energy prices and rising inflation, not to mention supply chain issues including labour.
Something in our favour, the debt-to-GDP ratio is the second lowest in the G7 and above all the debt is in pounds our national currency. As a consequence a default on our commitments can be ruled out.
The IMF has no business and no voice in the UK's affairs. If we need their input we will ask for it, just like Jim Callaghan did.
Another thing which didn't help was the IFS estimating the energy help would cost £100 billion which was way off the mark which out of a total of c£145 billion of cuts is a sizable chunk. The way gas prices are receding it may not even be needed. The public supported this move as did labour. Don't forget covid unfunded costs were £70billion minimum.
Not that it matters now but the opposition supported about £120 billion of these cuts but they can't explain that now.
I wrote that post 4 days after she resigned and o/a things have returned to some sort of normality.
There was nothing wrong with the policies per se, it was just the timing. Enjoy your energy support packages and mourn the loss of the reduction of basic rate tax and stamp duty rates.

But hey, apart from all that highveld are you worse off because of it? :-)

Sorry for the late reply, events have moved on now.