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"Today's topics should be football, sex, & maybe Lloyds, money and finance."
Here's the sex bit Brixton, well for most on here anyway.
Christmas will be the same for most men.
Sitting at the table with a fat bird that doesn't gobble anymore.....

I'll get my coat!

You're correct Hu, for some inexplicable reason I had access to the whole article and I'm not a Telegraph subscriber.
However, like the blue screen of death it's gone.

The government or the BoE?

I believe the Telegraph is free today, black Friday. Apologies if posted before.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/11/25/technocrats-firmly-charge-britain/

Re Saga, yeah I bought some on the way down @ c220p, another loss, a right boo boo. Since then, got many more @ 81p. Never thought they'd get this low. I'm sure they'll come again and if De Haan wants it, it'll cost him.

The doomsters, UK knockers and EU promoters have gone to ground as the London stock market overtakes Paris to claim it's rightful place.
There was enough noise when this was being promoted and now, silence.
"The London stock market has re-overtaken Paris’s after falling behind for 10 days, with a lead of $63 billion. A 2.5% rally in the value of the pound led to the improvement, and morale booster, compared to a modest 0.7% improvement for the Euro."
Pardonnez-nous, nos amis grenouilles.
Every dog has its day.

Just seen this.
"The funny thing is I would spend far less time if I was not forever replying to out of the blue messages and references or silly challenges."
Epro, If you weren't such a prolific poster with your version on everything but mostly reversing the result of a democratic vote or against the current government (same thing really). You wouldn't get all these out of the blue messages and references, silly posts demand so called silly
challenges.
You have an opinion on most subjects, trouble is, it's mostly the wrong opinion. If you court controversy you'll get it back.

"Im not retired yet so looking for growth more than income"
Everyone has their reasons, Gazzleberry is on a different time scale, he wants the wonga now.

Wids, I only highlighted the figures because one of our resident pinheads blamed the UK energy companies for setting prices too high.
I saw that chainsaw sales have increased by a third in Scotland, plenty of wood up there, not to mention the wooden tops, lol.

Btw…. "he got cornholed and the lights went out" was deleted, I had a chuckle.

Gas futures for December currently…
UK € 117 per MWh.
EU € 128 per MWh.
Just saying.

I usually put food in our collection box. :~))

"The question to Martin Lewis was not surprising which is all I said"
It was surprising to me, with mortgage rates still historically low.
You mentioned comparing the help for energy with help for mortgage repayments, saying it was the same thing. One major difference is that energy prices are at an all time high and mortgage rates are still near the lower end.
There's no comparison in any way.

With valuations at 8x earnings, the deposits required need significant savings and it appears that those savings are being achieved. The bank of mum and dad has certainly helped in many cases but I can't help feeling that there is more, much more disposable income in today's society than there used to be.

Spin it anyway you want jock but if the vote was in favour you would be jumping through hoops right now.
Let's be clear it was a unanimous verdict, Scotland cannot seek or demand further powers and that includes the next general election, end of.

No Independence for Scotland, back in your box Sturgeon and your followers.

"Inflation in the UK rose more than expected in October, reaching 11.1 per cent, its highest level since 1981.
In the eurozone, annual inflation is expected to have hit a new record high of 10.7 per cent in October, up from 9.9 per cent in September, according to the latest estimate of the bloc's statistics body Eurostat.

More than half of the eurozone countries recorded double-digit inflation rates in October, including Germany (11.6 per cent), Belgium (13.1 per cent) and the Netherlands (16.8 per cent). France showed the lowest rate, at 7.1 per cent. Yes we know why France is lower Epro.
Italy saw the biggest monthly increase in prices, with inflation jumping from 9.4 per cent in September to 12.8 per cent in October.
Energy prices were again the main drivers of eurozone inflation, with a 41.9 per cent year-on-year rise, compared with 40.7 per cent in September and 38.6 per cent in August."

Yeah Mac, those energy companies over there in lala land are shafting everyone and the "Brits get markedly poorer" but the Europeans are not affected.
Ciao.

You have some very strange views machiismo but they all fit with your narrative. Views like energy companies set the price and are shafting everyone. And this statement, anyone with leftwing views can't be r a cist.
There's plenty more of this nonsense from you, I'm sorry but no-one can take you serious anymore, especially with your reoccurring vile outbursts.
In short you've lost it.

Just waiting for Gazzleberry to join the fray, another priceless contribution from someone who allegedly can only see half the input.

Allegedly someone phoned Martin Lewis and asked will the government help with my increased mortgage payments.
Is this indicative of the youth today? The poor sensitive souls they don't know they are born, think everyone owes them a living.

Read on Dumbo.

Shell boss Ben van Beurden appeared on-stage at a conference last month and called on the government, quite explicitly, to impose a windfall tax on energy companies. To the delight of Sir Keir, who couldn’t have asked for a stronger endorsement of his flagship policy…

At the time, van Beurden said:

“One way or another there needs to be government intervention. Protecting the poorest, that probably may then mean that governments need to tax people in this room to pay for it. I think we just have to accept as a society – it can be done smartly and not so smartly. There is a discussion to be had about it but I think it’s inevitable.”

As it turns out, van Beurden was right: it was inevitable. Jeremy Hunt obliged and whacked up taxes on companies like Shell last week in the autumn statement. What happened next was just as predictable

Now Shell’s UK Chief David Bunch says the company’s planned £25 billion investment in UK energy might not go ahead… because of the windfall tax. According to the Telegraph, Shell now “cannot take it for granted” that the plan will go ahead, and they need to “rerun the economics and take a view on a project by project basis.” Be careful what you wish for.

Machiismo and Starmer wrong side of the argument again.

Nothing to see here, I'm done.