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Was always destined to fail. Already tried and failed so many times before, just like the war on drugs, its a huge game of whack-a-mole, with willing suppy side participants waiting to fill any void immediately after a big bust. The money is too big in the smuggling industry.

Starmer doesnt seem to understand, where there is a demand, there will ALWAYS be a supply. Its the demand side of that equation we need to work on. Farage is the only one who understands this and would be able to control the flow of illegal immigration. Strip the perks and remove the incentive, then demand drops, then supply drops as it would no longer be profitable. Its really that simple. If starmer knew anything about business, he would understand this point.

Labour want the so-called"millionaire" middle classes to fill the hole. Its always the middle classes that bear the brunt of tax policy and fiscal drag. The weathy have mobility and can move/avoid taxes. The underclass/welfare state continually swells due to this new wave or fad of being "mentally unfit for work". Who pays for this exodus at the top and swelling at the bottom.....you guessed it, the MIDDLE CLASSES. The hard working people! Many who are on these boards.

The middle classes are being squeezed for every single little drop in the UK now. Price rises on everything, everywhere. Services becoming worse and worse yet prices relenlessly march upwards. Financial welfare and PPP over the last 20 years plunged for this group. Something has to give. It no longer pays to get a good education and work hard in a good profession. It no longer pays to be thrifty and save. it no longer pays to be creative and entreprenurial.

Blame lies squarely at the tories for allowing this to happen under their watch. They can never be forgiven for allowing this country to get itself into such a mess. Never in its history has the UK been more weaker and meaningless on the world stage.

"Christ knows how you think we're meant to lower the national debt and pay for services without tax.🤣"

There are many ways.

1) GROWTH. Of which there is precious little. How about encouraging businesses to invest and employ as opposd to taxing them to death.

2) Efficiency drives in the hideously inefficient public sectors. If you had to pay more money for a chocolate bar, but got less chocolate than before, would you not ask questions? By the sounds of it, you are happy to listen to the black hole soundbites starmer and reeves spewed out when attempting to justify tax rises when in reality just bumping the pay packets of the inefficient and low productivity public sector.

3) Stop immigration that is a net public burden! We can no longer pay/afford for foreign nationals who are not and will never be net tax contributors, which is the vast majority! By all means welcome professionals and those who are in dire humanitarian situations (with limits), but open border policies which in effect we have is absulutely crucifying every aspect of our public services that starmer keeps forcing hard working british citizens to pay for.

The NHS is the biggest joke of them all. Personally i havent registered for a doctor since uni as by the time i would get to see one i would be 6 ft under. I chose to go private which i am having to pay for. I am then entitled to ask the question why i am paying huge sums in tax for something i practically cant access and dont use? Younger, healthier individuals with middle class paypackets are effectively forced to go private or suffer unbearable waiting times and are effectively subsidising the NHS for nothing in return. The tax base funding the NHS will vanish to countries that have less onerous taxes and provide a decent level of public service. Then who will be left to pay for the NHS?? Something will give in the next 20 years as it is simply unsustainable. People will not tolerate it much longer and will see the NHS for what it has become.

And stop being so melodramatic and comparing right wing politicians to fricking nartzis. Its dumb, lacks common sense and downright disingenuous. Next you will be saying trump has plans for mexican gas chambers. Those people are in the USA illegally! They are well within their rights to deport. There are zero deportations of legal US citizens or US citizens of particular race or religion!

I could equally list the things Corbyn has in common with Your lefty chums chairman Mao, Stalin and Kim il Sung...who by the way also slaughtered tens if not hundreds of millions. So stop being such a stereotypical lefty drama queen with the obsession of calling everyone who isnt part of your brood and who is a rizla width right of Chairman Mao a nartzi. Again, it doesnt help your cause. It just polarises further.

Far right is being thrown around far too often by people such as yourselves lokiloo. You have no idea what far right actually is or means. Tommy robinson, EDL, BNP are about as far right as you can go, or could get in the UK, and have virtually zero true believers. So as much as you wish the UK was some ra**ist, immigrant hating white mans land where minorities and women are treated like vermin, sorry to disappoint, but its simply a dreamt up leftist dystopian fantasy. Whereas in china.....where you seem to sing their praises one too many times not to be ruled out as a chinese bot...hmmm

Sure you get bandwagon jumpers, but this happens either side of the spectrum. You had hooligans during BLM, and hooligans during those riots a year back. Obviously the left leaning media picked up on the latter much more than the former, but those with an atom of common sense can see this. No mainstream politicians come close to being so called "far right". Even the furthest reaches of the left and furthest far right have overlapping themes, i.e. anarchism, so that is nothing particularly new.

Truss and Farage are not far right haha. Not even close. They are old school conservatives. People like you calling them far right actually helps them gain more popularity.

Starmer? Pro busines? hahahahahahaha WTF. Quote of the day haha

Actually, Blair i could tolerate. He was a half decent politician well ahead of his time. Gordon brown on the other hand was utterly useless at the forefront, but worked wonders behind the scenes during blairs tenure.

Starmer is way out to the left of Blair. You dont tax business like that and call yourself centre. You dont tax the middle classes into oblivion and call yourself centre.

Sticks and stones lokiloo....

Dont worry lokiloo, i dont wont you euthanised. Lobotomised on the other hand.....

Fortunately for common sense and pragmatism, i'll also be sticking around for quite some time yet to keep radical left, anti-west loonies like Koko-lokiloo in check and carrying the torch for centrism and centrist policies.

Trump is necessary to reach that equilibrium political state.

Ehehehe well its been a fun and very profitable last couple of weeks. Well done to all buying the dips....tomorrow will be a huge day.

That's except china, who now have 125% tariffs hahaha.

China have been playing silly games for years. Their whole economy is based on and geared towards manufacturing and overproduction, flooding the world with cheap c4ap nobody asked for or wants whilst supressing domestic consumption, keeping the people in check. Everything the XI communist party does is for manufacturing....ensuring they are running overcapacity constantly.

China clearly don't like the taste of their own medicine. The funny thing is, if the Chinese think trump will back down whilst spitting out silly rhetoric like "total war"...they are in for the shock of their lives and clearly have no idea who trump is. That's why nobody else dared to jump the gun on this. The EU are finally learning. China trying to show how big their balls are has backfired spectacularly, and has just shown how tiny their weener really is. A country with such a huge surplus should have taken it on the chin and be thankful they got away with it for as long as they did. Now let's see the EU tell China that their cheap c4ap is not wanted or welcome here.

Trump will never back down! Its not in his nature and has zero reason to! Trump holds all the high cards in the deck and China hold none. China will always lose this trade war.

Come on trump....bring out the big guns. 200% tariffs, 2nd country tariffs for known diversion routes to cut off tariff evasion tactics, anti currency manipulation policies which sees a floating tariff WRT fx rate.

Tariff....what a beautiful word indeed.

Besides, isn't this exactly what the left wanted? They are the ones who think the US is an evil globalist imperialist heathen antichrist who have no right to police the world?

Trump is giving the left what they wanted. He doesn't care about policing the world anymore, and wont stick his nose in others business unless it affects the US. Trump doesn't care about globalisation and wants all industry to return home. The US is retracting its tentacles.

But Ironically (but unsurprising), the loudest cries are from the left. Seems like you can't win either way haha.

Personally, I hope trump gets a 3rd term to really pulverise the left establishment built over the last 25 years into fragments of dust.

It's not just the big trade imbalances. Developing countries put up massive barriers to trade in order to help domestic business and lock out foreign business. So why should the US continue to subsidise foreign business at the expense of US business? Trump wants industry to come back home, and that's it really. He seems to be prepared to pay the price, so there's not much the world can do. That's their perogative.

And how about China?? Not a rich nation?? What is their excuse then? China does not allow a whole host of US business to penetrate their market such as meta and Google, steals IP, constantly undermines foreign companies for their own gain, offers state subsidies to their businesses to undermine amd undercut fair competition.... And they are the ones crying bully? Hahaha you can't make this up. I hope trump ratchets up the pressure and tacks another 34% on China!

Still convinced US/EU will come to a deal that will allow more free trade flows than ever before.

Haha yeah, perfect escape goat found for dismal uk growth figures. Starmer/reeves will be relieved!

US/EU trade deal will be done. As for Asian markets who have taken the absolute p!ss out of the US and enriching themselves whilst building protectionist trade barriers to grow massive trade surpluses.....no more. Trump isn't having any of it.

China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam the very worst offenders! The cries from these countries are particularly sweet. The hypocrisy shown by some nations is astounding. The days freeloading off the US are well and truly over.

Ch ch ch ch changes......

Woww yayy here we go.

1930s recession lol. The world isn't used to life without US money and trade surpluses. So of course they will throw toys out of the pram when the US says no more. Welcome to the new world order.

Soaking up short/mid term winners whilst everything getting hammered indiscriminately. Slowly does it though, who knows where things will land.

Agree with shearclass, even though how frustrating that is. This drop is completely understandable given the unknown nature of how these tariffs will play out (if indeed at all).

Everything is very uncertain right now. But it's obvious that slapping 30 something percent on Swiss exports will affect WOSG significantly.

It's sell now, find out later.

Seems like gold is the only play in town right now, and there has even been significant profit taking in gold today plus the fact that the GBP is strengthening. Let's see how the EU retaliates.

But yes, things could get real messy, real fast.

This is a complete lack of faith in turnaround which is understandable as we have seen precious little improvement in figures. But we will see if the turnaround is actually failing in April. I get the impression that we will see 200p here before those are released. If results are worse than expected, all bets are off at to where it would go. I bet MA is rubbing his hands together, and could swoop in as it's "saving grace" for a song.

Boohoo's saving grace is ironically debenhams. So it is arguable that boohoo could be valued correctly relative to asos now?

Blimey. Hard for the bottom feeders to dip their toes in when it drops 3% what seems like on a daily basis. Someone has to be selling in the background here.

Retailers including jd sports have all taken a hit, but asos has been pummelled and battered. Definitely a company specific disliking.

MA works up to just under 30% for both ASC & BOO, makes a joint bid for both. Merges the two, flips his wares under their brands and becomes an absolute retail powerhouse.

It has to be at the back of his mind to do this surely. A merger of the two makes a lot of sense!

Come on Mike, show us your hand.

Big fish like MA don't care about share prices. They care about percentage of the company they own. Only PIs and trading houses care about share price.

MA loves a good bargain, and seems like he is taking full advantage of this drop. Won't be surprised to see him work up to 29.99% in double time at these prices

Fallen through every support like it wasn't even there.

From here, it's anyone's guess. Will need to see where this bottoms out. Only good news can stop this decline now

Low liquidity and no interest. Asos cannot seem to have a single green day. Is 300 the bottom?

I am guessing there is a lot of money on the sidelines including mine, waiting for Europe fate re trump tariffs.

Yesterday was child's play compared to what would come if trump slaps 25% tariffs on Europe. Bloodbath