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I'm still in the pub!

Just saying.

Walkersworld.
Desperate measures.
Tying to correlate a worldwide pandemic with everything that that entailed at the time and the current disintegration of the SNP is really clutching at straws.
Admit it, you've been duped.
Btw, that £600k+ was not from the public purse it was from your dwindling membership, which if found to have been embezzled, makes it even more personal for the suckers that contributed.

"Scotland will vote for what is best for Scotland"
Isn't that what they've been doing? And look how it's all untangling before their very eyes.

Labour and the working man, some facts.
“When Neil Kinnock led Labour into battle against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, there had been 64 Labour MPs who had previously held working-class jobs. When Tony Blair won his second landslide, in 2001, the number had fallen to 49. When Ed Miliband was defeated by David Cameron in 2015, it was down to 20. When Jeremy Corbyn took over, promising to restore the voice of the working class, there were 12. And when Keir Starmer replaced him, promising to repair the Labour Party’s relationship with the Red Wall, there were only seven.”

Labour MP's have long graduated from 'working class' but still want the dumbo's to believe they represent them.

I’m enjoying every minute of the rapid disappearance of this rabble of a party which pretended to be on top of every national problem but was actually a total shambles. There's a definite plus for the folks here, in that we are now seeing zero Scottish independence posts the likes of machiismo and Gazzleberry.
What a s hit show, loving it.

One year comparison chart shows....
FTSE + 3.56%
S&P 500 - 5.78%
DJI - 1.53%
Just saying.

The SNP’s financial headaches are about to get even worse. Unless a new auditor is found by May 31, the party’s Westminster Group faces losing £1.15 million in short money, which will be withdrawn under Commons rules until auditors sign off on the party accounts. Short money is the taxpayer cash given to opposition parties to pay staff wages and MP travel, which is only provided on the condition it is used “exclusively in relation to the party’s parliamentary business.” No auditor, no cash. Given there are serious questions over the £110,000 motorhome purchased using the SNP’s campaign money, finding someone willing to sign along the dotted line here might prove difficult…

SNP Westminster leader Stephen ***** is now also feeling the heat. He faces questions over his knowledge and potential involvement over the party’s cash crisis.

No response from SNP sources, just like SNP members on here, spineless the whole lot of them.

The Chancellor urged world leaders not to put up trade barriers after the US President passed a $369bn package of subsidies to support climate and energy businesses.
Mr Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has drawn an estimated $200bn in investment since it was passed last year, according to estimates from the Financial Times, and both the EU and Britain have been forced to draw up responses of their own. It has sparked fears of a new era of protectionism, where economies are closely managed through tariffs and subsidies.
Mr Hunt said the British Government would provide “some” support for businesses to stop investment fleeing overseas but said it would be measured.
The Chancellor told Sky News: “First of all it's wasteful to spend money subsidising factories that would have been built anyway.
“Secondly, when you take subsidies away, you can end up with a business that's not viable.”
“If we were to turn our backs on free trade, that will be a disaster for the world economy. We will enter into a dark ages period. We do not want to move to protectionism.”
So far the EU have, it must be said just like us, has only been making noises and are at lose in how to respond to Bidens new 'green support.'
The UK will always be far more nimbal to any changes than the lumbering mostly indecisive EU.
Oh, and the EU has always been a protectionist organisation, probably another reason they don't quite know how to respond.

I'm sorry that it upsets you, but when you make stupid posts you're liable to get called a cretin.
It has the same meaning.
Nothing personal, I don't know you.

Shanker Singham, International Trade and Competition Fellow at the IEA says…

“UK accession to the CPTPP would be a seismic geo-economic event. For the first time, a major G7 country has chosen to accede to a regional grouping not because it is part of that region but because it represents liberal values and provides economic opportunities.

If the UK succeeds in acceding to the CPTPP, it becomes much more than just a regional agreement; it becomes a real challenge to the outdated WTO system and could encourage that system to embrace reform. CPTPP+UK has the equivalent economic weight to the EU-28-UK. If UK accession accelerates the possibility of the US rejoining the CPTPP, it would become a grouping spanning around half of the global economy.

The CPTPP is also a bulwark against Chinese market distortions destabilising the world and provides a platform where like-minded liberal nations can agree united and innovative approaches to these anti-competitive market distortions.”

All the UK doubters will slowly disappear into the background along with the steadily diminishing influence of the EU.
Just another small advancement in the UK's journey.

"All thanks to Brexit brought to you by the Tory Party!"
So, you are blaming the Tory party for following the consensus of the electorate
hobione.
Another cretin that doesn't respect democracy.

Talking of emails, I wonder if the one that Gazzleberry is writing this morning is to find where his missing contributions has disappeared to?

"Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has hinted at potential reforms of the UK’s bank deposit insurance scheme, which could lift the limit on guaranteed savings.
£85,000 per bank is currently guaranteed, with Bailey suggesting at an International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington that this could be raised in response to a host of bank failures in March.
Reforms put in place after the 2008 financial crisis had been effective, Bailey said, but more needed to be done to protect deposits, “especially in smaller banks”.

"this could be raised in response to a host of bank failures in March."
More of the same, lessons learnt, why wait for a run on the banks to change legislation?
Surely this should be indexed linked anyway.

"There is always a way to mask unpleasant truths."
Lol, you should know being an SNP supporter and contributor Gazzleberry. What a $ hit show.

"As always, it is worth bearing in mind just how wrong the IMF has been in the past: since 2016 the IMF has consistently underestimated UK GDP growth… every single year.
Their word is not gospel."

The government has today confirmed the appointment of economist Megan Greene to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) – the body in control of setting interest rates. Co-conspirators will no doubt be shocked to learn that Jeremy Hunt has opted for a remain-supporting, World Economic Forum attending, new elite establishment luvvie as his pick.
Megan will start her three year term on the MPC in July. Jeremy Hunt commented on her appointment:
“Megan Greene’s wide experience across financial markets and the real economy will bring valuable new expertise to the MPC. I am delighted to appoint her to this role and look forward to seeing her contribution to policymaking in the coming years.”

Economic establishment consensus types won’t turbo-charge the economy!

One of the five pledges halve the inflation rate. As always a double edged sword, it's very convenient to reduce your debt.

"before inflation is tamed and interest rates return to any thing like pre - pandemic levels"

In an economy that's operating in a so called 'normal' way, (i.e. inflation at or around the 2% mark) there won't be a need for interest rates, anything like pre pandemic levels ever again.
However, that doesn't take account of a return of a tax and spend labour government. You know the one that promised an end to boom and bust.
Just saying.

Everyone filtering everyone else, result, no one sees any posts, no discussion, no agenda.
As there is no news, how about some views on buybacks, haven't heard too much on that lately. :~) Alternatively we will have to wait for a downturn in the SP before the other half of the BB gets vocal.
If you want a bit more dividend there's not much time left to purchase, if you want to buy in lower just wait a bit longer. It's your choice.

Motorhome anyone?

SNP turmoil: Luxury campervan seized by police investigating SNP 'missing £600k' in wake of Peter Murrell arrest.

Not one to prejudge, but it's looking more and more likely that the SNP have been taking the mickey out of their gullible supporters. Do we know any on this forum?
Hehe.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-turmoil-luxury-campervan-seized-by-police-investigating-snp-missing-ps600k-in-wake-of-peter-murrell-arrest-4097658