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Give it up son, time to move on.

My mistake Gotmeister 1% it is, which kinda illustrates my point even more.

Regarding access to the sovereign fund, I mentioned that on here some time ago, if I remember the total amounted to over £230,000 per person (but don't quote me on that).
Alas it was for future generations, which I suppose means, always out of reach.

Norway's $1tn sovereign wealth fund divesting $10 billion represents just 10% overall, don't know the timescale.
However let's not forget how the fund materialised, principally oil.
Latest reports suggest that Norway will increase production in 2020.
Sounds a bit like climate/carbon offsetting to me SC, if you've got the money you buy the credits and just carry on, which to me is hypocritical.

He's a short ar***, inferiority complex, they're all the same, give em a bit of power and it goes to their head.

Somewhat premature to be talking about the demise of the likes of BP and Shell methinks.
Obama tried and failed.
You must move in the same circles as Mr Carney. :-))

I see Mark Carney is getting on side with his new 'wage provider,' the UN’s Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance.
Having recently committed the BOE to introducing regular climate risk ‘stress tests’ for big banks, he's now advocating ditching, selling, avoiding all fossil fuel companies (coal oil etc) as they pose a risk for investors, including banks and pension funds.

Sell yer BP and RDSA before we're all doomed lol.

Methinks there's got to be an upward movement in the base rate before any movement northwards on that scale. It's anyone's guess when that'll happen.
Just my opinion....JMO you all remember him where is he now? :-))

Change of policy coming (inflation targeting) at the ECB, who knows.
You can't make people spend, there's more disillusionment and answers being offered.
In reality they will probably do what they always do, wait and then wait some more and hope with the usual outcome that they realise they should have acted or at least done something sooner.

Last word from Dominic Frisby.
Stay with it, the first minute is a bit slow.

https://youtu.be/f2zJ8vaB5jo

Just over a month ago.
Justin Trudeau, a man who can’t remember how many times he darkened his skin for comic effect, has managed to form a minority government in Canada.

His Liberal Party won Monday’s election with fewer votes than the Conservatives but, under a quirk of the first-past-the-post system, emerged 36 seats ahead in the 338-member House of Commons. The Tories took it on the chin. Their leader, a likeable man called Andrew Scheer, conceded graciously.
Just another example why we need these boundary changes.
Of course all the minor party's want PR.

The Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (as amended in 2011) required the four Boundary Commissions for the UK to carry out a review of constituencies and to submit final reports to Government in September 2018. Parliament specified that the 2018 Review must reduce the number of constituencies, and therefore MPs, in the UK, to 600. It asked us, as an independent and impartial body, to consider where the boundaries of the new constituencies in England should be, ensuring that every new constituency (except two for the Isle of Wight) has roughly the same number of electors: no fewer than 71,031 and no more than 78,507.

I believe if these changes were implemented labour would loose approximately 15 seats.

"Why they need their own parliament I don't know."
If I remember correctly sage, Tony Blair promised and gave them their own parliament / assembly as a bribe (built at the whole of the UK's expense, not from the Scottish account) because of Labours failing vote count north of the border.
Of course the parliament building over run both in time and expense but more importantly since, the labour vote in Scotland has collapsed and just re-enforced the SNP's position.

The electorate have a short memory, you can't buy votes as has been demonstrated in last week's election.

Incedently Blair tried the same tactics opening the borders early than necessary to new EU members. It kept him in office but eventually labour run out of our money and he had to go.

That's my take on it. Sadly the SNP will probably always do well because people are naturally patriotic but if voters looked at their record instead of the name we may have a different outcome.
It's becoming a one message party, a bit like Nigel's, one day it may go the same way.

Another way to improve the system would be to implement the boundary commission recommendations to equal the size of each constituency and in so doing reduce the number of MP's.
There is a problem with this, the MP's have to vote for it. At this moment in time believe it or not the current boundaries favour the labour party.
It's not just the HOLords that is too big, 650 MP's is far too many for the size of the UK.

Over 40% increase required here to win the EOY competition, as usual I will have the same number's next year, assuming A1 runs it, he's gone quiet of late.

Britain's economy grew a little faster in the third quarter than first estimated and the country's current account deficit shrank to its smallest since 2012, a small boost ahead of what looks set to be a sluggish end to the year ahead of Brexit.
Every little helps.

Mark Carney, six years in the job and made three decisions.
August 2016 (0.25%)
November 2017 (0.50%)
August 2018 (0.75%)
Nice work if you can get it.

That went down like a lead balloon, SP now sub 5p.

KRSS you're full of s***e..... FO

"I only hope that we can put Sweden behind us and find real value in 2 other countries."
Noble sentiments Oaktree and I agree with your comment about a ‘backwards’ country.
The trouble is the real and IMO the only value is Kallak.
Regarding the other two countries seems no-one is concerned that we are bankrolling the likes of Vardar.
And yes we've still to find real value in these other two countries where as we've already found it in Sweden.

As I've said before it's Kallak or bust.

Poland could have to leave the EU over its judicial reform proposals, the country's Supreme Court has warned.

The proposals would allow judges to be dismissed if they questioned the government's judicial reforms.

Judges say the proposals threaten the primacy of EU law and could be an attempt to gag the judiciary.

Poland has already been referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) regarding rules for judges.
The Supreme Court said the party was undermining the principle of the primacy of EU law over national law. It said in a statement: "Contradictions between Polish and EU law.... will in all likelihood lead to an intervention by EU institutions regarding an infringement of EU treaties, and in the longer run [will lead to] the need to leave the European Union."

It must be true its on the BBC :-)

"Euro army is a myth" have another look at that one avocet123, but you'll be pleased to know we're not involved in that now.
Well we may have to help em out if they get into trouble, funny how history has a habit of repeating itself.

If passports are cheaper to print, other than the UK surely that makes sense.

BTW, I got my new passport last month it's a beaut, no mention of the European Union, can't stop looking at it, you'll have one when yours runs out. It's kinda uncluttered on the cover, says what it is...... UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND (Royal coat of arms) PASSPORT.
None of that EU rubbish.