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The wilful ignorance of Europe continues then mick?

Is that what you call a copy and paste booboo Primetime?

The EU is in an even worse state than Britain, but Rejoiners couldn’t care less.

The strange desire to return to Brussels' embrace isn't rational. It's based on a wilful ignorance of Europe.

Take note STP, mick-b and a few others, your comments are based on a wilful ignorance of Europe.

I'll stand corrected Property, but you get my drift.

I see 20 mph Mark Drakeford slipped away earlier in the week at a blistering snail's pace that befits his achievements for the people of Wales.

Meanwhile the Welsh are still rushing full speed over the border for treatment courtesy of NHS England.

No-one noticed he'd gone, but apparently he's proud of what he has achieved and no doubt so is Starmer and a few misguided others here.

During his term there has been longer NHS waiting lists, falling educational standards and a stagnant economy. With a record like that surely it's only a matter of time before he's elevated to the Lords. Although he said he would turn down a Lords seat…..so did Prescott, another hypocrite.

‘iechyd da’ or as we know it 'yaki dah' and good riddance.

I never got any ‘windfall’ shares but I'm glad some remember that telephone access back then. Yeah, the work phone was red hot back then and it must have shown on the itemised bill when it came in.

“In the good ole days before we had computers and social media to moan all day long.”

SUFC.

The Ft, apart from the previous days prices, used to devote a few pages with every tradable share listed, followed by a four digit number.

This four digit number gave you access by phone to the 15 minute delayed SP for the particular company you were interested in.

Nobody had ever heard of day trading back then, it was bad enough just buying and selling.

Nolege is power.... DOH!

"but not least is the VW etc emission scandal"

I eventually got a payout from VW but woefully short-changed, in both time and money compared to the US.

Just saying.

That is without doubt the most honest and well thought out post from Suzy in over 13 years on lse.

The crossed fingers illustrate perfectly the reason for staying invested or indeed making further investments here. Whereas we know the only thing left inside Pandora's box was hope. Although I would add despair which would eradicate all hope.

Well done suzy, all in all a well thought out contribution to the position of BEM at this time, if not a little late in coming.

There comes a time to let go, I believe this post confirms that time has finally arrived.

DYOR. This is not financial advice. 🤣

“The EU is expanding!”

The exclamation mark is well founded….this post may be too long for the author as he has explained before he has difficulties with reading long posts. Probably the reason his facts are inaccurate.

"Wealthier European Union regions are concerned that enlargement could result in a reduction in cohesion funds

EU cohesion policy, about one-third of the overall EU budget, is the EU’s main instrument to help poorer regions catch up with richer ones, although richer regions are also eligible for funding, although in smaller sums."

Here's the queue to even that up to assist the richer ones.

Albania.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Moldova.

Montenegro.

North Macedonia.

Serbia.

Türkiye

Good luck with that lot, you suckers, and the resident joker who's been renamed StickyToffeeTwat.

A reminder to all the disgruntled Lloyds shareholders.

Don't forget to set a 50p sell order in case you miss it. Then go and moan about something else on another BB.

EU countries have a different method of calculating their financial figures.

“More than 200 economists have recently called on the European Commission to overhaul the way it calculates its core economic forecasts and better integrate critical environmental factors into its baseline models”

“The choice of model to inform decision-making is clearly non-neutral.”

Just saying.

The biggest beneficiary from the miners strike was Scargill.

The biggest beneficiary of Thatcher's actions during her time was Blair, he even fkd that up.

MVarawa, this quote from Thomas Sowell sums it up. The same can be said of CEO’s and politicians, accountability out of the window.

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

When the Bank of England's chief economist was asked to explain why its forecasting models had failed to anticipate runaway inflation, he sought to manage expectations.

"All economic models are wrong, but some are useful," Huw Pill concluded in a letter to lawmakers last June that laid out the limitations of prediction methods.

A nine minute read if you're interested.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/bank-england-forecasts-dock-bernanke-verdict-looms-2024-03-11/

Re: Sources.

The Telegraph, you won't find the uncomfortable truth in the guardian.

“As British shoppers try to stretch their spending further each week, supermarket leaders Tesco (LON:TSCO) and Sainsbury's are using their superior financial firepower to win over customers from debt-laden rivals struggling to compete.”

Source, Reuters.

You'll probably find that in the end, there's no substitute for quality.

As the title suggests, just like the Banks really.

“Labour hires Mark Carney to help unlock billions for spending plans. Labour has hired the former Bank of England governor Mark Carney and the boss of Barclays to help unlock billions of pounds in private investment after it was forced to abandon its £28bn green spending pledge.”

Assisted by Torsten Bell chief executive of the Resolution Foundation and the former head of policy for Ed Miliband and special adviser to Alistair Darling.

They're coming after your money. Before you realise, your pension monies will be whittled away. They've got form raiding pension funds. Keep your eyes on the 25% tax free withdrawal, after that it's open season on your savings.

Now they have to make up the Nom-Dom shortfall.

A long day indeed Hardup.

The same nonsense disruptive discussions led by the same disruptive wind up merchant that now goes under the name of StickyToffeePudd. The blokes a complete loser and yesterday acted like some sort of admin guru overseeing individual posts. If that wasn't enough he's now joined by another pharmaceutical expert COVID idiot under yet another user name.