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[chinese investor] 18/3/2019 10:35

Imminent !

Chinese Investor (SLA) 15 Mar '19 - 13:37
No stopping until 270p !

[wilksey1] 18/3/2019 10:12

warranty agree with you 100%

[warranty] 18/3/2019 09:42

Dr B, much of what you say about jobs going to the EU is totally without fact unless of course you'd like to name the companies and number of jobs involved. The EU through their support of globalisation has cost far more jobs in this country, through fishing, farming and manufacturing than Brexit ever could. Your assertion that customers abroad and at home would stop buying is also totally without fact and your pure supposition.

In fact it was actually the Remain camp that used the biggest lies and misconceptions during the referendum and still do to this day by kidding people things will stay as now if we remain. You know that's not true. Under the Lisbon Treaty from 2023 we know that it is the start of another round of greater unity towards a federal Europe and removal of individual states. Army, Air Force, Navy subsumed into and controlled from Brussels. Removal of country vetos, removal of our previous rebate negotiated by Maggie increasing our payment by around £7bn a year plus the extra increase of between £1.5bn and £2.3bn annually. Forced to join the Euro, forced to join Shenghen, forced to accept greater influence by the ECJ and as part of the Euro, no opportunity to adjust interest rates or currency rates to support the economy.

Why a presumably otherwise intelligent person like you would want to inflict these things on our nation rather than have complete control through our own Parliament, I just don't know but presumably you are a Fedealist and want to be governed by people you can't elect or dismiss. This is the UK, still one of the worlds most innovative and outward looking nations and for you to want to destroy that by tieing us to a failing, crumbling institution like the EU really disappoints me.

[lippy4] 17/3/2019 15:49

well spain built a new submarine and it was so heavy it had trouble floating,just like the eu.

may be it should have been cheese.

the worrying aspect all this is their is talk about them building warships for us.

[mcunliffe1] 17/3/2019 15:10

Dr Biotech,

it would depend upon the type of cheese being used to make the submarine. Leerdammer, a Dutch cheese has many holes in it - so of course the sub would sink. Switzerland, enjoying a reasonable relationship with the EU also has many holy cheeses. They are landlocked though so probably don't know their cheese cannot be used for submarine construction.

However, it's a big world out there. New Zealand could easily provide us with the necessary cheese for production, as could Australia. Without the high EU tariffs on importing such products submarine production would really take-off in the UK.

[dr biotech] 17/3/2019 13:43

Anyone with any significant sales experience that its much harder to get new customers than to keep existing ones. Leaving on a no-deal basis will lose us business due to tariffs or just the extra hassle of having extra paperwork. Plus there will be plenty of customers who will just want to stick two fingers up at us, as many over here have said they will to the EU. This will be lasting damage

Saying we will sign a deal - is this the easiest deal in the world that brexiteers were going to have signed by now?

Financials will be hit. Sure the current Brexodus of jobs and assets to Dublin and other places which has already begun will mitigate this (of course the loss of UK jobs and revenue to the exchequer will need to be replaced), but EU rules (that we will no longer have a say in) state that to get an European banking license they will have to have a proper base inside the EU. You can't get those easily and its not just a "brass plate" operation. How this affects SLA I'm not sure, but its not going to be positive.

I'm not in favour of Mays deal, but as you can probably imagine I have no sympathy for those that say her deal "is not what they voted for". I my opinion people were sold a completely undeliverable dream. If we voted to make a submarine out of cheese and what was delivered was a totally useless submarine its wouldn't be the fault of those who made it.

[edmundshaw] 17/3/2019 12:38

Dr B. we are not going to end up with no deal with the EU, as it would hurt both sides. A no deal exit would just be a starting point, Deals would be made mostly before we even exited the single market. The EU already offered us a Canada+++ style deal much better than May's pile of Berlin-drafted capitulation. Seriously, anyone who is in favour of May's deal has not read it or loves Europe more than Britain or Northern Ireland.

All in all, I don't think SLA will be affected much, except inasmuchas the financial sector as a whole will get marked down, initially at least.

[mcunliffe1] 16/3/2019 23:59

Apologies eexa - your post. Well spotted.

[mcunliffe1] 16/3/2019 23:57

Boy......aren't they thick as pi*sh*t.

If these creatures could cheat with aplomb they'd be working in the financial sector.


:-)

Well spotted lippy4

[eeza] 16/3/2019 20:44

Attorney General, Cox, admits fiddling, not declaring rentals.

The political class at its finest.

[dr biotech] 16/3/2019 18:21

Think there has been some damage already - look how much the banks have spent and how many jobs and assets have already been transferred abroad (plus institutions such as the EMEA etc). Brexiteers seem to think that we will be much better off outside the EU as we can sign our own trade deals rather than being on WTO terms with non-EU countries, but going from free trade to WTO with the EU won't hurt.

It can't cut both ways.

[chinese investor] 16/3/2019 13:01

15 Feb 2019 - Mitsubishi Sale !

[lippy4] 16/3/2019 11:48

surely asia is the future for expansion of trade in the world and looking at prudentials expansion in that area has done them a lot of good.

the eu is the old world and stagnating.

[dr biotech] 15/3/2019 18:57

Beware the ides of march!. Never thought I'd get a chance to say

[lippy4] 15/3/2019 17:40

dividend perhaps.

[ramellous] 15/3/2019 16:43

So what is it about the 15th of the month. Looking at the volume chart in the header, the 15th big volume Feb and March.

[tornado12] 15/3/2019 16:00

Following this weeks brexit play group it seems the market believes the no deal exit now is pretty remote. I have to agree the no deal risk has dropped drastically. This has helped recovery this week. But it remains to see if medium term economy damage is already done. Thoughts ?

[chinese investor] 15/3/2019 13:37

No stopping until 270p !

[chinese investor] 15/3/2019 08:54

Surely the surest way to make money !

[essentialinvestor] 14/3/2019 12:56

Aviva is an insurance company with an asset management division,
SLA is now an asset manager, the insurance element is no longer.
There are few comparisons with Aviva as a result.