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Post by trevorgas on Mar 17, 2024 9:53:58 GMT
Glad you both agree. Brexit made things worse. Haha touched😜😜
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Post by oldie on Mar 17, 2024 11:24:05 GMT
This trend has been building since late 90s. Brexit gets a mention in this article and its no secret that it has caused some issues for UK business, so there's some validity. Investors want returns. There are better places to put money for yield and there has been many acquisitions of UK companies over the last 30 years too. Interestingly the other countries mentioned-Austria, Germany, Norway and Holland, would not have been on top of your list if you were to list markets with outflows.. China and the US, plus some of the developing nations, is where equity investors have been putting the money. That's been happening for decades, especially since China started booming in 2000s. Correct Is it though? The population of the FTSE 100 is made up of companies (in the main) who have a very large international trading profile. The actual performance of the UK economy not being the primary factor. What HAS been the primary factor was the rule of law, political stability, fiscal responsibility in government, liberal open market attitude to trade. Underpinned of course by access to capital markets. Are we still viewed in that way since 2016? Answers on a post card
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Post by oldie on Mar 17, 2024 11:28:19 GMT
Just a late thought. To invoke China as an example of an attractive place to list is laughable. Their market is a giant Ponzi scheme predicated upon a real estate market pumped by printing money and very loose fiscal policies. They are now paying the price for such rank stupidity.
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Post by trevorgas on Mar 17, 2024 11:55:13 GMT
Is it though? The population of the FTSE 100 is made up of companies (in the main) who have a very large international trading profile. The actual performance of the UK economy not being the primary factor. What HAS been the primary factor was the rule of law, political stability, fiscal responsibility in government, liberal open market attitude to trade. Underpinned of course by access to capital markets. Are we still viewed in that way since 2016? Answers on a post card I was agreeing with the post,you are right there are other factors and investor confidence/sentiment in the UK has definitely been eroded,talking to my friends abroad we look to them to be an inward looking country at odds with itself .
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Post by oldie on Mar 17, 2024 11:57:02 GMT
Is it though? The population of the FTSE 100 is made up of companies (in the main) who have a very large international trading profile. The actual performance of the UK economy not being the primary factor. What HAS been the primary factor was the rule of law, political stability, fiscal responsibility in government, liberal open market attitude to trade. Underpinned of course by access to capital markets. Are we still viewed in that way since 2016? Answers on a post card I was agreeing with the post,you are right there are other factors and investor confidence/sentiment in the UK has definitely been eroded,talking to my friends abroad we look to them to be an inward looking country at odds with itself . Exactly Clive.
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Post by yattongas on Mar 17, 2024 12:58:08 GMT
Is it though? The population of the FTSE 100 is made up of companies (in the main) who have a very large international trading profile. The actual performance of the UK economy not being the primary factor. What HAS been the primary factor was the rule of law, political stability, fiscal responsibility in government, liberal open market attitude to trade. Underpinned of course by access to capital markets. Are we still viewed in that way since 2016? Answers on a post card I was agreeing with the post,you are right there are other factors and investor confidence/sentiment in the UK has definitely been eroded,talking to my friends abroad we look to them to be an inward looking country at odds with itself . Are we still allowed to take the Pi55 out of Clive for voting for Brexit or is there a time limit ?
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Post by oldie on Mar 17, 2024 13:19:45 GMT
I was agreeing with the post,you are right there are other factors and investor confidence/sentiment in the UK has definitely been eroded,talking to my friends abroad we look to them to be an inward looking country at odds with itself . Are we still allowed to take the Pi55 out of Clive for voting for Brexit or is there a time limit ? At least he thought about it instead of blindly following a flag
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Post by trevorgas on Mar 17, 2024 13:36:10 GMT
I was agreeing with the post,you are right there are other factors and investor confidence/sentiment in the UK has definitely been eroded,talking to my friends abroad we look to them to be an inward looking country at odds with itself . Are we still allowed to take the Pi55 out of Clive for voting for Brexit or is there a time limit ? Feel free , although I think the statute of limitations is 6 years😊😊
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Post by stuart1974 on Mar 17, 2024 14:52:14 GMT
Are we still allowed to take the Pi55 out of Clive for voting for Brexit or is there a time limit ? Feel free , although I think the statute of limitations is 6 years😊😊 High treason is not time limited. 😘
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Post by yattongas on Mar 17, 2024 15:08:49 GMT
Feel free , although I think the statute of limitations is 6 years😊😊 High treason is not time limited. 😘 To the gallows !
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Post by stuart1974 on Mar 17, 2024 17:12:59 GMT
High treason is not time limited. 😘 To the gallows ! Too good for them, they should spend eternity listening to speeches by Jacque Delores. 😉
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Post by trevorgas on Mar 18, 2024 14:39:41 GMT
Too good for them, they should spend eternity listening to speeches by Jacque Delores. 😉 Is there a choice😮😮
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Post by stuart1974 on Mar 18, 2024 15:08:49 GMT
Too good for them, they should spend eternity listening to speeches by Jacque Delores. 😉 Is there a choice😮😮 Absolutely. English or French. 😘
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Post by trevorgas on Mar 18, 2024 17:47:35 GMT
Absolutely. English or French. 😘 🤣🤣🤣
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Post by yattongas on Mar 21, 2024 23:22:07 GMT
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Post by stuart1974 on Mar 22, 2024 0:59:34 GMT
Money well spent. "A new £24m border control post may have to be demolished because repeated changes to post-Brexit border arrangements have left it commercially unviable. The facility at Portsmouth International Port is due to begin physical checks on food and plant imports from the EU at the end of next month, but changes to border protocols since it was built mean half of the building will never be used. Built with a £17m central government grant and £7m from Portsmouth City Council, which owns the port, it is designed to carry out checks on up to 80 truck loads of produce a day. The port now expects to process only four or five daily. As a consequence, half of the 14 loading bays will never be used, and annual running costs of £800,000 a year will not be covered by the fees charged to importers for carrying out checks. Portsmouth is not alone, with ports across the country puzzling over how to make the over-sized, over-specified buildings commissioned by the government pay for themselves with far less traffic. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says it spent £200m part-funding new facilities to cope with post-Brexit border controls at 41 ports. It acknowledges that fewer checks will now be required and says ports are free to use spare capacity as they wish." news.sky.com/story/portsmouths-new-brexit-border-post-could-be-demolished-without-ever-being-used-13099358
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Post by yattongas on Mar 22, 2024 14:54:33 GMT
What a joke 🙄🇬🇧
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Post by aghast on Mar 22, 2024 17:27:52 GMT
Maybe we could make a new East and North stand out of it. Must be open to offers.
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Post by yattongas on Mar 25, 2024 16:45:44 GMT
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Post by yattongas on Mar 25, 2024 16:58:30 GMT
Prof Brian Cox :
The frustrating thing to me about the quote from this article is that the columnist knows, and the Conservatives know, and Labour knows, that Brexit was an awful economic and geopolitical error. This was obvious in my view in 2016 and it’s ten times more obvious now, for the reasons outlined in the article. The issue is that none of the above have yet summoned up the courage to explain to the electorate that we really have no option but to rejoin the single market and customs union as soon as possible. Europe has to strengthen and work together in an increasingly uncertain world, and the U.K. is a vital part of Europe. Everyone in any sort of position of responsibility or power knows it. Basically our political class is bullshitting the electorate. And as I’ve said before, you can convince people to vote to abolish gravity but they will be very annoyed when they hit the ground.
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