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As the second highest contributor we did pay for it and accept free movement snige.

Of course you are confused a123, you're a remoaner and would like to be in the EU dictatorship.
Couldn't make it up lol.

Yeah, that's why as Theosus said they sit outside the EU...... d'oh.

Who woke the tabs man up?

Rosewall, you won't see many star's up there tonight mate, unless of course you're not actually living in Scotland. Lol.

Bc2020, it's not that the pound is getting stronger it's more the dollars weakness.
For info - Dollar index 9.665, lowest for about 3 years.

You were right first time playingtheodds, stagecraft.

Yes BJ, they are fiercely proud of their 'own' region, not surprising really it stems from Garibaldi's day's I guess.

I worked in the Pesaro area for a while, just saying.

P10, if they kick up they'll be back of the queue, they are obligated to wait until the administration dishes it out. Also they are still waiting on the CV release fund, again centrally administered but comes complete with additional rules attached.
But hey that's the EU for yer lol.

"I have heard it from German friends, they are Europeans first, Germans second. The EU has been good to Germany"
They sure have avocet123, in case you're not aware Germany (France to a lesser extent) runs the EU especially the way the Euro is so far skewed in Germany's favour. Be under no illusions when it comes down to it Germany comes first.
They're all taught from an early age to say Europeans first it's inbred, you know how they like to do as they are told.

I've spent too much time and words on here arguing with Seismic about this issue, and when it comes to fruition he/she is not here anymore. Well at least under the Seismic label.

The thing is that every country think's and consequently believes that their regulatory body is the best in the world, they're all gold standard.
Surely they are all examining the same data.

"Reasonable approach by the EU and US. Madness to rush this through. People need have faith in the process otherwise uptake will be low."
avocet.
Do you really believe that another month in the case of the EU (probably 2 months in the US) is going to make any difference to their findings?
All the long term benefits or disadvantages are unknown at this stage it's only just been developed, all that's known is that it works and is safe.
eg. It's not known at this stage how long it remains effective, could be that a yearly vaccination will be required.
One things for sure your beloved EU won't have that answer in just one month.

This early approval is just the start, the first example of how an independent sovereign nation can benefit from removing itself from a great monolith that is the EU.

Monolith - a large, impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as indivisible and slow to change. Fits the EU perfectly, don't you think?

Funny that the UK is first to approve a vaccine, one that was developed by the Germans and US. Quicker to approve it than the countries that developed it, and all thinks to brexit? Lololol

Lololol, yes avocet that's absolutely right.

The fact is that had the UK remained a member of the EU it would not have been able to approve the vaccine this quickly. As Jens Spahn, the German health minister, explained earlier today, despite the exemption in EU law, EU member states took a collective decision to take a common approach to vaccine approval. As a result of Brexit the UK is not an EU member state and therefore not locked into that common approach.

Ref: politically looks good, I agree must have been hard Oif, but he finished off with a caveat.....
"Being first at the beginning of a race doesn't always mean you win."
Value your input snige, it's always good to have differing opinions written by yourself, not just the negative copy and paste rubbish of some on here who remain nameless.

Government shares in lloyds..... that's how he got his handle :-)) only joking.

It's not only lloyds you've missed out on TP, the way most stocks have recovered so far you could have got a monkey to picked the winners. There have been some spectacular gains with more mileage to come IMO.
I'm sure I'm not the only one on here that has accrued more/different stocks during this rout if that's the right word.
If you're so bullish on precious metals why keep the pharma?

TP, you've been "bearish" as you say all throughout this recovery in prices.
Have you made any returns since you've been sitting on the sidelines?

Where have you seen interest rates going negative Casshy?

snige, you're right it was hardly worth mentioning but several did at that time and remember this was when all the "expert" doomsters were shouting the loudest.
I consider it more of a worthwhile post when someone says they've added shares at the time rather than 2 months later, don't you?