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[minerve 2] 18/6/2019 10:04

grahamite2

Well, that is your opinion and it is in the minority in Europe. It belongs to the Little Englanders - a quaint dying breed with limited intelligence.

[alphorn] 18/6/2019 10:00

Freddie - this is an entertainment thread - but if you can make a few £k at the same time all the better. How are your loss leaders performing?

[grahamite2] 18/6/2019 09:43

I'd far, far sooner have a close relationship with the US than the EU.

[minerve 2] 18/6/2019 09:21

I can match any Eton boy now. No problem. In fact, I can dribble rings around most. So, no need to go. :)

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/6/2019 09:19

@Maxk,

Minerve isn't bright enough to get into Eton..Don't flatter him.

[maxk] 18/6/2019 09:18

Min, are you Rory in drag?

[minerve 2] 18/6/2019 09:10

CTR is a 1st class thicko

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/6/2019 08:57

Poikka,
"So who do you think was responsible for the attacks, Minerve?"

I bet he thinks the Jews did it.

He's clearly a Labour supporter, and the majority of Labour supporters are anti semitic.

[maxk] 18/6/2019 08:43

Jerry Markham 18 Jun 2019 8:32AM

This full court press media splurge about "The Great Rory Stewart" has gone beyond laughable and is now firmly in the rather sinister realms of outright propaganda.

The one big question we need to be asking is, "Why?"

Who is applying pressure or paying for the deluge of tripe being pumped out everyday about this person.

It reminds me of the similar performance after a certain Barak Obama emerged from nowhere..................

[bili1] 18/6/2019 08:42

Good morning all,
Any chance one of you smart guys can spread a little of your knowledge........?
What significance, if any, can one attach to the huge trades on opening/closing of the market?
Thanks

[maxk] 18/6/2019 08:38

Rory Stewart: the 'Florence of Belgravia' years, and the portrait that set him apart from his Eton peers






Camilla Tominey, associate editor
18 JUNE 2019 • 8:11AM
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Appearing the picture of precociousness, it was the portrait that set Rory Stewart apart from his Eton peers. With his bluey green eyes staring boldly out of the painting, the mere commissioning of the oil on canvas suggested that the then 18-year-old was the ‘one to watch’ among arguably the most illustrious alumni in 1990s Britain.

He may have been an unfamiliar name to many until recent weeks, but his former college masters were so confident the star student would reach dizzy heights that celebrated artist Ursula Wieland Lambach was commissioned to paint him in 1992.

According to Philippa Martin, Eton’s Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art, Mr Stewart was one of “a very small proportion of boys...



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[maxk] 18/6/2019 08:31

Is there anything Plug cant do?

[xxxxxy] 18/6/2019 07:45

The Fed rethinks – what about the Bank of England

By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JUNE 18, 2019

The Fed realised late last year it was raising rates too much and tightening the money supply too severely. It backed off and announced a re think. It is currently working its way through how it can change its approach and make it friendlier to economic growth.

The Bank of England needs to do the same., It has been tightening too much for the last two years. Like the Fed, it relies on out of date theory based around the concept of national capacity. It thinks it knows what national capacity is, and argues that there will be inflation when we reach close to that capacity. For an open economy like the UK it is an odd way of thinking about it. We import goods and services and we import labour so our capacity is not constrained by UK resources, whilst world products, services and labour keep prices and wages down as a result of global competitive pressures.

The Bank seems to want to prove a point about its errant pessimistic forecasts over Brexit. It should listen to what the Fed is saying, and back off from its current over tightening. The UK economy needs a bit more Bank flexibility at a time of slowing world growth and little inflationary pressure. They need to revise their views on how to settle interest rates, in line with the Governor’s lecture explaining h0w the Phillips curve was now flat . Given this there is little need to raise rates as unemployment falls unless there are other signs of overheating or too much credit.

[grahamite2] 18/6/2019 07:37

That would be interesting, bargainbob, if you told us who said it.

[grahamite2] 18/6/2019 07:36

Why The Daily Telegraph is pushing Plug so strongly is one of life's little mysteries.

[bargainbob] 18/6/2019 07:35

"The Brexit debate is England talking to itself. Screw the French and the Germans. Screw Belgium and Luxembourg. Screw Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic. Wales will do what it’s told. Hello there, Mr Trump."

Tectonic plates shifting

[maxk] 17/6/2019 23:43

Power to the people

[cheshire pete] 17/6/2019 23:24

Agree grahamite2, just as well Boris has an ally in Farage to focus their minds on the likelihood of them losing their seats.
Talk of the pact this morning encouraging, with Brexit Party targeting labour leave seats and not standing in Tory seats vulnerable to labour. No mention of it on BBC that I could see...then they wouldn't would they.

[grahamite2] 17/6/2019 23:15

The Conservative Party has a serious infestation problem. It is infested with socialists and liberal democrats. I don't think it's realistic for Boris to try and deal with that overnight.

On the other hand, it didn't take Cameron and Mrs May long to create the infestation, so it should be possible to fix it in just a few years.

[cheshire pete] 17/6/2019 22:57

Can't afford to be undermined by resignations from cabinet once we start renegotiating with the EU. How many of their top officials have resigned during the past 3 years of May's Brexit farce...none come to mind but then they're not stupid ...they are smart enough to realise that they have to have a united front when negotiating.

[cheshire pete] 17/6/2019 22:51

So Rory's campaign is run by his wife according to SKY PP. Does that mean she'd pull his strings if he were to become PM. Hiding behind his wife not a good trait for a prospective PM.