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“Who knows? US banks, such as JPMorgan Chase, might even grow so frustrated with Trump’s unpredictable America that they place some deal chips in the pro-growth UK”

Just because this government's slogan is growth doesn't make the UK actually grow.

This is the FT, so we have to make allowances.

Gunsup, I missed tax rises off the list, not sure the UK can take much more. However their pre election promises are beginning to look a bit thin.

Red Ed just had his gag removed after another deviating announcement of a third runway at LHR. Having spaffed £9 billion on GB energy, enough to keep the illegals in the way they have become accustomed for 18 months. Now it transpires the promised 1000 GB energy jobs now won't materialise until 2045 if ever. To top it all, the money to fund the £3.3 billion earmarked for low-interest loans for green projects is set to face the chop, because of Reeves overspend.

Another fantasy from the bacon butty Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. The ‘Green Prosperity Plan’ which was claimed to create growth and 650,000 new jobs by 2030 has been holed under the waterline. What's more sad is that there are still idiots supporting this clueless bunch.

You're correct loopy, the UK is grim under this lot, the future has been removed.

Reeves so-called borrowing rules which have already been tampered and adjusted by this incompetent government, are in danger of being breached. The OBR guesstimates she had £10 billion of headroom after last October's budget. That sum is fast disappearing if not already run out. Reeves and the rest of this current rabble are now scrambling to find someone or something to blame.

First up is Trump and his tariffs, followed by persistent inflation in the UK and elsewhere, and the rising cost of government borrowing. Oh, and the good old tried and tested global factors.

Obviously nothing to do with the incompetence for all to see of the current policies they are pursuing.

But of course the budget was responsible for rising inflation, decreasing growth and government borrowing was rising before trump was elected.

Take your choice…cuts, reform, welfare changes, civil service reductions and job cuts.

This is the socialist way and it comes into play after only 9 months of ‘having a go’ By any other name it's austerity but you won't hear them call it that.

You better embrace it because we will all pay for this failure of government

As Primetime just said, a reading of 100 is average, while a gauge below 95 is negative, and here we are at 91.4

As usual there are plenty who are in denial.

Just scrolling through.

STP etal, you're like the little boy who slyly creeps up, shout's and runs away before anyone can catch him.

Do you get off on all this nonsense you're spouting?

If you've got something to say, say it and if you're challenged back it up.

What is your purpose on this BB? Don't tell us, it's just a wind up.

Word is, Trump is up for the Nobel peace prize.

“not sure i can sit through another trump speech about how great he is (in his own mind)”

loopy.

now you know how the vast majority feel about starmer and his renegades, every time one of them opens their mouths.

reading statements or well rehe****d rhetoric to the gullible is easy. ask them a question and watch em squirm, the flow is disrupted, they start stuttering and most of them are completely clueless, just like their supporters.

“growth is our number one priority” hehe.

“The United Kingdom's manufacturing activity continued to decline in February, S&P Global said in a report on Monday. The manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell from 48.3 in January to 46.9 in February, marking a 14-month low.”

“Output was down as a consequence of low new orders, subdued client confidence and supply chain issues. Job cuts were at their highest point since May 2020. "Cost and demand considerations also encouraged cutbacks to purchasing activity and stocks, as the tough economic backdrop placed manufacturers on an increasingly defensive footing," S&P Global Market Intelligence Director Rob Dobson said.”

“But don't panic, growth is our number 1 priority.” 😂

Starmer's ripped the heart out of the wealth creators (well those that haven't been taken over).

Of course he's been a busy boy of late posing on the world stage and clocking up the air miles, much to his wife's pleasure. Even she can't stand him, I wonder why? All will be revealed in the due course of time.

Meanwhile we've all got to put up with him and his bunch of misfits.

"Those on the flight were accompanied on the flight by Garda personnel, medical staff, an interpreter and a human rights observer." Not to mention uncle Tom Cobley and all, let's all have a jolly to Georgia make a change from Widdicombe fair.

“TFE, you are clearly a visionary.”

Well STP, I didn't vote for Starmer, if that's what you mean, then I agree with you. 😝

Chid, 70 p today would have cost you 40.38 p twenty years ago. using consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data from the Office for National Statistics

There ain't no pleasing you, which one was your other half?

https://youtu.be/-_eiAlo9N68?si=C1Yv5ln8BTM2UbT0

STP.

'I've guessed ' 90.5 p for at least the last 5 years.

So now everyone believes that cuts to the foreign aid budget is paying for the increase in defence spending. What they don't tell you is that Starmer is fudging the numbers.

If you believe reducing foreign aid to 0.3% of GDP is going to pay for this additional defence then you're probably a diehard socialist and as such will believe everything that comes from the proven liar's mouth.

The shambolic labour party won't say if this additional spending includes monies for the chagos surrender fk up, or if it includes “intelligence and security service” spending.

They are relying on increased GDP to reach the 2.5% requirements that are at present over £7 billion short of the quoted numbers.

With the current growth record, we all know how that is going to end.

Of course the red numpties are lapping it up.

The truth is, if defence spending was held at today's level and with the country's GDP dropping under labour all they've got to do is carry on as they are now. Hey presto 2.5% arrives as if by magic and the faithful will have something else to shout about.

70.6p 🙂 Have a good day everyone.

"numpties who just talk about world events they have no control over"

LL, you mean like you have control over the Lloyds SP, get real.

“Who voted for this lot?”

The very same idiots who endorsed Corbyn, idiots like you loopy.

Talk about get a life, try getting a brain first.

Brace yourself.

Rachel Reeves has been warned that "immediate action is needed" as UK employers prepare for the "biggest redundancy round" in a decade.

The warning comes as firms prepare for tax increases announced in the Chancellor's autumn Budget, along with tighter employment regulations.

UK unemployment sits at 4.4 per cent and is already on the up.

This article was written just after the election results were announced, because the savvy amongst us knew what was coming. However the numpties amongst us are still muttering on about something called growth.

Popcorn anyone?

Ooh dear, no-one is biting anymore, you're left talking to yourself. I wonder why, it's not like we've heard it all before.

You may have to soon STP.

In a significant move, Spain is set to begin revoking Spanish citizenship in March 2025 from Spaniards who acquired it through naturalisation but fail to meet strict legal obligations.

This new policy, detailed on the website of the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice, and Relations with the Cortes, targets non-native citizens who breach three mandatory conditions.

Who will lose their spanish Citizenship?

Under the new regulations, individuals who obtained Spanish citizenship by residence or other means—not by birth—could lose their citizenship if they do not fully comply with certain requirements. Firstly, if they continue to use the citizenship they were required to renounce for more than three years after naturalisation, they risk having their Spanish citizenship taken away. Secondly, any voluntary enlistment in the armed forces or assumption of a political role in a foreign country, in defiance of an express prohibition by the Spanish government, will lead to revocation. Lastly, if a court ruling finds that someone obtained Spanish citizenship through fraud, concealment, or falsification, their citizenship will be rescinded. (Wonder what alias STP/DCB use?) Although there is no fixed list of forbidden countries, each case will be scrutinised carefully, especially where national security or Spain’s interests may be compromised.

What goes around comes around.

“They are nuts, I am seriously considering my US investments, I think the pair of them have lost their heads.”

“If (or when) the US takes a dive, it won't matter where you're invested.”

If you believe there's an imminent downturn only something like the SUK2 or a US inverse etf equivalent may help you. Or some of chips gold.🙂

BB

Yeah, if as predicted the AFD gets 20% of the vote they will be frozen out. That's Democracy at work today.

"The Right will win tomorrow and Europe will have to wake up."

As always with PR, there will be bartering and compromises. Nobody gets exactly what they voted for.