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[alphorn] 07/12/2020 11:20

jacko - serious question. In Switzerland the percentage of immigrants has always been close to 20%, today it is 25%.

My observation over a 50 year period is that it is the management of that immigration that is the key. I could summarise it as forced integration for lack of a better word. State school system as the norm and compulsory military service. Both big mixers. The UK is very divisive and, I would agree, has not achieved full integration.

Comments please - to me. Not the popular vote!!!

[minerve 2] 07/12/2020 11:15

FT is a great read. Sanctuary in a country full of idiots and morons.

[geckotheglorious] 07/12/2020 11:14

“Defunding Police Backfires In Minneapolis As Shootings, Homicides, And Carjackings Surge”
Minneapolis has transformed into an inner-city warzone in six months, just like Baltimore and Detroit, with
violent crime surging to levels not seen in decades after millions of dollars in police budget cuts. 



“Left Wing and their idiotic policies kill people yet again”

[geckotheglorious] 07/12/2020 11:13

Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes America, Move Along Nothing To See Here..

[geckotheglorious] 07/12/2020 11:13

Anyone explain this?
Seems restrictions are only for SOME people, not everyone as they should be if this Coronavirus is so so bad as Media/Governments claim



'A Slap In My Face': LA Bar Owner Livid After City Lets Hollywood Studio Set Up Dining Tents

A viral video is making the rounds which perfectly captures the anger, frustration and contempt people have for our elected officials, who flagrantly break their own COVID-19 rules when it suits them - and, as you'll see, grant well-connected 'elites' privileges as regular Americans continue to be devastated by what seems like a two-tiered set of lockdown restrictions.

In this latest example, the owner of the Pineapple Hill Grill & Saloon in Sherman Oaks, Angela M, offers heartbreaking commentary as she walks through her parking lot - revealing that while her own outdoor dining has been shut down due to heightened pandemic restrictions, a movie studio was granted permission to set up outdoor dining tents for a production.




Then there was the story of the public house owner being fined after local council workers engaged in entrapment that Farage reported on.

[minerve 2] 07/12/2020 11:11

Another one:

Full support for the EU’s insistence on guarantees. Boris cannot be trusted, as he has shown repeatedly in his personal and professional life.
No guarantees, ironclad, no deal,



Completely agree. The liar needs to be held to account for once in his life.

[geckotheglorious] 07/12/2020 11:10

Poikka
Post 322938
Alps - "In a declining currency it is true that exports become cheaper and more attractive. HOWEVER imports become more expensive."

Minnie - "Plus a large percentage of our exports are built from components that are imported which means a falling £ isn't the obvious benefit the chimps think it is."



And what these two chimps above failed to consider was substitutability of consumption!!!

If these imports from EU get more expensive we'll either consume the domestically produced equivalent, or order from somewhere else in the world!!!!!!

In the case of more expensive imported components from EU we will substitute and buy them from somewhere else in the world!

Nearly every product in the world is substitutable.
Sometimes cheaper, sometimes more expensive, ceteris paribus.

[grahamite2] 07/12/2020 11:10

I might take a subscription to the Daily Remoaner aka the FT. It must be fun watching them squirming daily.

[minerve 2] 07/12/2020 11:09

Another one:

Wait, I thought they needed us much more than we needed them?

These oven ready meals never taste as good as they look on the packaging...



LOL!

[minerve 2] 07/12/2020 11:06

Comment on the FT:

How can a 52%/48% result in a vote four and half years ago, with all manner of trade deals being promised to voters, and with a majority of the population now believing the decision was a mistake, be taken as justification for No Deal?

It stretches the notion of political legitimacy well beyond breaking point.

[minerve 2] 07/12/2020 11:01

"They came, most of them younger folk who had kids all of it on the NHS, which is our taxpayer money."


The large families and kids will go onto work and fund the growth in companies earnings that retired folk depend on.

Come on Jacko, your argument doesn't stand-up to scrutiny. Maybe you should go and live on the Falkland Islands as it fits in more with your views and thinking.

Let us just agree to disagree. I'm not going to argue with you. We had a good dialogue about books the otherday and I would rather keep it that way for the time being.

If you like reading Buffett, like I do, here is another one. Generally wisdom from his partnership days but very well put together and worth reading even if you have been over the partnership letters before.

[sharesoc] 07/12/2020 10:52

We are hosting a webinar with Lloyds on Wednesday which maybe of interest to potential investors and current shareholders.
Carla Antunes da Silva (Group Strategy, Corporate Ventures & Investor Relations Director) and Douglas Radcliffe (Group Investor Relations Director) will update on performance following the publication of the Q3 interim management statement which was released on 29 October.
More info can be found here:

[poikka] 07/12/2020 10:49

Alps - "Poikka - are you taking lessons in stupidity? I can tell you that you are doing well.

My advice to you is keep rowing.

ROFLMAO"

More evidence of a lack of credibility. More evidence of an inability to present any form of original thinking or argument. Not to mention an unusual sense of humour (ROFLMAO), if I can call it that.

[lefrene] 07/12/2020 10:44

It was your remark about doing away with driving licenses, that was the quip, not the fact they are used for ID.

In Germany a few years back I was acquainted with a German head of English in a college in Freiburgh, a pleasant and honest chap, who was proud of how well things were organised in Germany. We happened to call into his bank on the way to lunch, a bank he had used for over 25 years, and where the staff knew him well. But because he hadn't brought any acceptable ID with him, they wouldn't serve him! For me that rather summed up the blind nature of the sort of thinking behind the EU apparatchik empire. The poor chap was of course most embarrassed about the incident.

[jacko07] 07/12/2020 10:43

Minnie..your point on immigration and the NHS. When Blair said we would see about 40,000 east europeans come in, it was a lie. They say it amounted to 6 million over a 10 year period. The immigration figures are fudged, so can't be trusted.

That is more than 10% of the UK population, a huge amount. Is there anyone on this thread who hasn't seen GP surgeries suffering with the huge intake of all immigrants. They came, most of them younger folk who had kids all of it on the NHS, which is our taxpayer money.

I am aware that the NHS has wasted a lot of money and suffers bad management, but adding 10% plus to it's remit doesn't help a system that was already buckling under the pressure. By the way, I don't blame the EU, I blame New Labour and Tony Blair.

As for someone driving around in a McClaren, it means nothing, they cost a lot new, but you can pick a 3 year old one up for less than £50k, which isn't much more than what your diesel Merc lists at.

[minerve 2] 07/12/2020 10:41

This belief that socialists hate success is nonsense. Equally, you don't have to be a socialist to want more socialism. Capitalism VS socialism is not a black and white issue. It is very grey. Capitalism would not exist without some degree of socialism.

Time to stop thinking binary, me thinks.

[alphorn] 07/12/2020 10:36

Poikka - are you taking lessons in stupidity? I can tell you that you are doing well.

My advice to you is keep rowing.

ROFLMAO

[cheshire pete] 07/12/2020 10:35

EU is frightened of what UK can do when free. That is why they are doing their damnedest to try and stop us leaving. They know they're an inefficient, bureaucratic protectionist racket with dodgy accounts and who crush dissenting states ruthlessly.
EU is socialist. Socialists hate success, which is why it doesn't work...rails against human instincts.

[alphorn] 07/12/2020 10:35

lef - UK is too small a domestic market for heavy production. The US is not.
To restart production huge investment would be needed. The UK has a history of selling out, not the reverse. That may miraculously change of course. I shall let you bet on that one!

btw the driving licence is used all the time for identification; not a quip! For those who can remember back to Friday I used it to close out my bullish GBP stuff at the bank. ;))

[poikka] 07/12/2020 10:31

Alps - "In a declining currency it is true that exports become cheaper and more attractive. HOWEVER imports become more expensive."

Minnie - "Plus a large percentage of our exports are built from components that are imported which means a falling £ isn't the obvious benefit the chimps think it is."

No, really?!

The two great Remoaners felt it necessary to state the bleeding obvious. Such pomposity. It just demonstrates their incredibly narrow-minded, simple, 'thinking'.

Their credibility reaches an all-time low.

[chavitravi2] 07/12/2020 10:30

Didnt BLM realize (and I think they did) that going down on bended knee is a sign of submission, surveillance? They dont want blacks to be submissive, but they want whites to be by this action. They dont like the answer all lives matter when asked do black lives matter. This nonsense must stop.

[mikemichael2] 07/12/2020 10:29

Yes, you two definitely have 'something going on' never ever seen either of you say a bad word about each other!!

Maybe you are the same!!!!