The latest Investing Matters Podcast episode featuring Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma has just been released. Listen here.
Usual retort from the diehard eurofiles, Gazzleberry and mick-b, they keep broadcasting the same message.
Gazzleberry, “ may she rot in hell”
mick-b, same superlatives, the four freedoms.
Gazzleberry, with your second choice political party, now labour, and their leader endorsing Thatcher you're already out of step. Seems the only thing you're good at is investing as you only ever mention your trading successes here. You could try giving the BB the heads up before you commit to an investment.
And then there's mick-b desperately trying to defend the so-called four freedoms. Have you not heard about all the borders going up to prevent freedom of movement for immigrants mick?
Another day tomorrow, time for Lloyds to take a breather is my guess.
Just to refresh your understanding of the present state of the parties in government.
Conservative 350
Labour 198
SNP 43
Independent 18
Lib dem 15
And the list goes on down.
Looks to me like ALL the parties are minor to the Cons. They have an overall majority.
Like I said you have a sense of humour even if you have no understanding.
This may help nomlumgu. Minor….lesser in importance, seriousness, or significance, yeah that sums em up nicely.
Nomlungu, its been the minor parties constantly mentioning PR. Led by labour, lib Dems, reform right down to the monster raving loony party.
When or if PR becomes the way here it won't be the conservatives who will instigate it.
In a way I'm quite looking forward to another socialist f up if they do get elected. Then you will see the clammer from the left for PR in a desperate attempt to hang on, they won't care with who.
PR is a no no here, but that's just my opinion.
I've never before heard Starmer classed as brilliant, if nothing else you have a sense of humour. 🤣
“Keir Starmer has praised Margaret Thatcher for effecting “meaningful change” in Britain in an article directly appealing to Conservative voters to switch to Labour.”
Blimey, there's some diehard socialist on here choking on their breakfast this morning.
It must be true, its in the guardian.
“Premium Bonds savers told to ‘brace’ for prize fund fall as NS&I accounts set to become ‘less attractive’
“NS&I savers are being warned interest rate cuts could be just around the corner as new figures show the Government-backed savings provider has already exceeded its fundraising target for the 2023/24 tax year.”
https://www.gbnews.com/money/premium-bonds-nsandi-nsi-interest-rates
“Charlie Nunn spent last week bouncing from an investment summit with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, to a high-powered London bank conference and then jetting off to Cop28 in Dubai.”
What you may ask is Charlie Nunn doing at the Cop 28?
Every year this gets a higher profile on the merry go round calendar of ‘important’ events.
Is it necessary for the CEO of a British based bank to attend a climate meeting? It's all about networking, nothing to do with climate control, and that goes for the majority of attendees. For those in the corporate world it's a useful tool to line up your next employment and nothing else.
It's going the same way as Davos and the WEF, an all expenses paid jolly.
UK 47.2
Eurozone 44.2
Just saying.
Only Greece recorded positive growth in November, while activity in the Republic of Ireland stagnated. In Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany and Austria were all below the 50-point neutral mark.
Just saying, again.
LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said getting inflation down to the central bank's 2% target will be "hard work" as most of its recent fall was due to the unwinding of the jump in energy costs last year.
"The rest of it has to be done by policy and monetary policy," Bailey said in an interview with website ChronicleLive published on Monday.
"And policy is operating in what I call a restrictive way at the moment - it is restricting the economy. The second half, from there to two, is hard work and obviously we don't want to see any more damage.”
he repeated his message that it was too soon for the BoE to think about cutting interest rates.
"I'm very conscious of the position of the less well-off," he told ChronicleLive.
Financial markets are currently fully pricing a first rate cut by the BoE in September next year.
Why do governments, politicians, and various organisations have to continually state how hard they work? It should be a given. But let's be fair, over ½ a million pa eases the burden and makes it somewhat easier. Peeps should get it in their brains that interest rates are still below their historical norms.
There is a “democratic deficit” in parliamentary scrutiny of the Bank of England because oversight of Threadneedle Street’s work has failed to keep up with the expansion of its responsibilities, peers have warned. The Lords’ economic affairs committee is calling for an overhaul in the way in which the Bank is held to account to reflect changes to its powers and objectives, which have “expanded substantially” in the 25 years since it was made operationally independent. – The Times
The Bank of England’s reliance on “inadequate” forecasting models and a lack of intellectual diversity within its most senior ranks contributed to inflation sticking at among the highest levels in decades, a Lords report has found. In a report critical of Threadneedle Street, the powerful Lords economic affairs committee said the central bank had made “errors” in its handling of the inflation shock triggered after the Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. – Guardian
If you think the 700k+ are coming here in small boats, l despair. That's what labour would have you believe.
People forget, over 200k from Ukraine, 150k+ from Hong Kong, 150k to fill uni places plus their hangers on. And legitimate foreign workers and asylum seekers.
Just a thought.
If we were being invaded by the Russians, you would be glad to reach the shores of Europe….. wouldn't you? Blimey choices lol.