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Over the past 40 years since joining the EU .. has the average UK person achieved that much financial gain.. Or Higher wages and bigger bank balances and spare cash.. .. Or has the reality been more...
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Jings you are mostly correct. Who will be able to vote in more detail:-
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You are right, I didn't mean it just as starkly as you suggest. My thoughts are based on the potential size of the problem, ie: the miliions rather than the thousands. eg: The UK is talking in...
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With the current situation of the UK with a big housing problem that appears to be unable to improve. I would think a million new forms of accommodation be it houses or flats to ease the UK need for...
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Looks like markets are looking for any reason to roast the banking stocks .....The Election, Stress test ,Greece,The Chinese,Petrol,The EU RIFF RAFF a DUMB,PPI, any reason for a roasting and sending...
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Without any good reason things just keep going south... Regarding banks..
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A few weeks ago when we suggested to The Traveller that cash might be a good place to be I stated that this downtrend looked as if it had further to fall . Still looks that way to me . Market sentiment...
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Yes I second that Jings100 ..Today's fall was to do with oil prices doping back again, and BP The big boy on the FTSE dragged us down with it . and not to mention UBS in the spot light, some small rays...
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Sorry to get on this subject again but I hear of people saying we would lose our influence in the world if we left the EU. Not quite sure what influence we have in the EU, economic policy is driven by...
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I'm going to the local garden centre in the morning to find some of those green shoots things that were talked about a couple of years back, as still not seen any on my patch.
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Not sure what influence we have in the EU or anywhere else . Wish our net contribution was just £9 million , might make more sense . The days of the Raj and empire well and truly over but the memory...
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Yes the UK was a net contributer to the EU of a staggering £9.1 billion in 2014/2015 and expected to rise to £10.4 billion in 2015/2016, only Germany pay more. How many schools could we build with that...
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Have faith, they will grow. Maybe slowly, but they will. We will have a harvest.
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for the blip up , tempting to say this may have bottomed ,..........but ????. Still , nice to see a bit of a rise .
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Always knew you had a sardonic sense of humour , lol. ...... If the oil price holds at this level , maybe pushes on a bit , China comes up with some decent figures , the central banks hold rates and DC...
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Regardless of the farce around the BREXIT talks be very guarded on the effect of a rise in the price in oil. OPEC and friends are not that good at controlling a rise. the drop has been destabilising to...
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Re oil - I read that there are ships filled with oil sitting in the oceans pending instructions on where it can be delivered, that in the USA there are thousands of rail tankers similarly filled with...
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Some good questions but I take some of these story's with a pinch of salt. Firstly only three years ago the real problem was oil production was on the way down. Not because of low prices but because it...
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If there is a reduction of the use of oil... it could well stem from 2007 financial crash and since then car journeys maybe less as people cut their journey costs.... Certainly in Great Yarmouth in the...
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Your not wrong ,onshore storage pretty much full to the brim I believe . It's quite a complicated picture at the moment not just about the Saudl's refusing to cut production . Two main factors in...
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My gripe about UK energy is for many years if I am correct we have imported around 25% of our Electricity from Europe...
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Hydro's been on the go for many years in Scotland , visited the hydro scheme at Loch Awe a number of times. No idea how much it contributes nationally but significant percentage I guess . Lots of small...
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Our Rivers could be a great source of energy. Every time I see a weir I woner why we don't divert some of the flow to generate electricity, as is done at Beeston on the Trent. You would not know it was...
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Well posted ... The UK relys so much on imports and from others, rather than self creation and ideas .. Seems to be so easy to get someone else to do things even with of course the mass extra cost...
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Didn't know about the one in the midlands , must be many places on the mainland that would be suitable even allowing for summer water shortage . Similarly must be a number of places where tidal schemes...
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Seems sheer lack of government future planning.. even mass solar panel farms can produce needed power, not sure if they can beat wind farm power production ..... but we need to up our home production...
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Your post made me realise I knew very little about the construction of the bridge , shamed me into looking it up . Designed by two English engineers , .....ouch , construction was undertaken by a...
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yes mainly UK workers it would seem.. but foreign company input... not a true fully home built construction..
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When my mum went out to Australia as a £10 Pom (returning later),she used to tell me about riding the tram in Sydney, and because of her pallor, the Aussies would ask her "What do you think of our...
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Surely we could infer that it is cheaper to do it that way rather than produce it in the UK? Businesses will quite obviously go for the optimal combination of inputs. I might also infer that perhaps...
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Good discussion, some interesting points. Isn't it all about growth? As the standard of living improves people want and expect more, the difference in the UK over the past 70 years has been phenominal....
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Goodness knows at this rates of knots they will have to merge two or three shares into one to convince themselves it is not a penny share again
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The reports of Banks are not making that amount of profits .. Talk of banks now increasing fees
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The reports of Banks are not making that amount of profits .. Talk of banks now think about increasing fees
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You are right governments idea of helping first time buyers usually involves making it possible for them to borrow more .Which means they can afford bigger mortgages and more expensive houses .This...
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Report today that industrial output fell in 2015... seems obvious as our imports keep going up.. Our exports last reported were 30% down on imports.. Relying on our service industry so much may well be...
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