Guided Missile

Just seen a video of the new owner arriving at Southampton Airport, here.

Cough, cough... and, here:

Appalling grammar and punctuation. Have you considered evening classes?

Selling shares in a company for £200 million attracts far less tax than selling the shares in a company for £140 million plus taking £60 million in cash out. I'm not a tax expert, but I have a feeling that Kat's tax bill may have something to do with the shareholder's reluctance to sell VVD.

Captain Broke offering Captain Lawrence out, by letter: An example of the best that the Royal Navy had to offer. Hard as nails....

Great news for Pompey and for the region as a whole. I wish them the best of luck. Whatever our loyalties, we should all agree that the fans saved their club, as did our own Leon Crouch. He is the only reason for Southampton's continued existence as a business when he put his own money into the club, "out of the goodness of his own heart". I hope the Pompey fans, that put money up are not forgotten, like Leon Crouch has been. Liebherr and Eisner will make a fortune out of their investment, but the Pompey fans and Leon Crouch won't. Profit wasn't their motivation. On another topic, I have an additional link, that Michael Eisner has to Portsmouth. So, for those that are interested, here goes: Captain James Lawrence is a national hero in the US and many places are named after him. One, is Lawrence Township in New Jersey. In 1816, the town was renamed in his honour and a school, Lawrenceville School, a very expensive and exclusive prep school was founded. Michael Eisner went to this school. I found it interesting, anyway...

As you're on ignore, I haven't bothered to read your usual trolling b0ll0x, but I have one question, before I permanently ignore you. Why would a grown man bother to post as "shurlock" and as "Jonnyboy", in a vain attempt to get my attention? Not that I'll read your justification. I'd grow up and get a life, pal...or yet another logon ID.

Meanwhile, the last three months in Germany? ...and France?

FTSE since the referendum:

If Carney kept his mouth shut, maybe business confidence would be higher. For me, his and the Treasury predictions, have zero credibility.

More bad news for the remainers on the currency markets: Thank God I didn't bet against the pound sterling in July...

Growth to accelerate as UK economy bounces back Economic growth will speed up again in the coming months as investment rises and the global recovery means more foreign demand for UK exports, economists believe. Growth reached a low of 0.2pc in the first three months of the year, edged up to 0.3pc in the second quarter and will keep on getting stronger, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (Niesr) believes, rising to 0.4pc in the third and fourth quarters and 0.5pc into early next year. Overall the analysts believe the UK will grow by 1.7pc this year, 1.9pc in 2018, 2pc in 2019 and 1.8pc in both 2020 and 2021.

The point of the thread is not what a useless bunch the Tories are, who are responsible for blocking the aspirations of a whole moped gang of young people, all smarter and better educated than the previous generation. No, we get that there are a proportion of society who would never vote for a Conservative party, often based on blind, uninformed, dogmatic ideology. What the point is that this myoptic group are obviously not smart enough to realise that the answer is not with a Labour party that follows policies, the results of which we can see in Venezuela today. Anyway, don't worry guys. The answer is that the old Tories will die sooner than their children. This one hopes that the money I spent on my children's education, (after tax) and the loans that enabled them to buy their own homes, will mean at least they won't dance on my grave. After all, it was Conservative values that earned that money and paid that tax. As Oscar Wilde said: "With age comes wisdom, but (in the case of Jeremy Corbyn) sometimes age comes alone."

..for a leader who is 68 years of age and policies are at least 50 years out of date. The sad fact is that most voters are sheep, don't think too carefully when they vote, go with the sound bytes, what their mates do and aren't that smart. That's why only a minority of the voting population are rich (unlike the majority of Labour politicians, who are rich). Suckers.....

Ah, Bolivarianism. Also known as democratic socialism. (Democratic ) Exactly the platform Corbyn, Abbott and McDonnell are standing on, although I can't see many voting for it, apart from the few students who still believe Labour will abolish their loans.

Socrates:

Another instructive video, with a US Republican senator, Luke Messer and Gorgeous George Galloway proving my case: I love the line Luke Messer quotes from Thatcher:

The current political template of the Labour party for the UK...

Corbyn tweeting 4 years ago: :rolleyes:

Galloway three years ago in the Independent:

If ever there was an example of the failed experiment, that the hard left Marxist dream of, for Great Britain, it is Venezuela today. From Chavez to Maduro, Stalin to Putin, Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping, Kim Il-sung to Kim Jong-un and Derek Hatton to Jezza, when will the electorate learn. I wonder if Galloway and Corbyn regret their support for Chavez and their ilk, but the main lesson is; if socialism of their brand doesn't work in the potentially richest country in the world, where would it work?

I think the fact that up to 1950, Britain was spending over 7% of GDP on defence, whilst Germany and Japan were spending the square root of f*** all may have released a few pfennigs/yen to spend on a new factory or two may have helped. Still, I think we've learnt our lesson and unlikely to get a socialist government in power for the foreseeable future...

If you're an out of work, former car worker, probably...

I love the total over reaction on this thread, despite the good news daily, regarding our exit from the EU and our prospects thereafter. I think it may be worth reminding the "We're Doomed" brigade of some very simple UK trade figures from 2015. [TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD]Country[/TD] [TD]Imports (£m)[/TD] [TD]Exports (£m)[/TD] [TD]Total Trade(£m)[/TD] [TD]Trade Balance (£m)[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]EU[/TD] [TD]220,150[/TD] [TD]133,832[/TD] [TD]353,982[/TD] [TD]-86,318[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Germany[/TD] [TD]60,860[/TD] [TD]30,382[/TD] [TD]91,242[/TD] [TD]-30,478[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]US[/TD] [TD]35,291[/TD] [TD]45,278[/TD] [TD]80,568[/TD] [TD]+9,987[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] You may wonder why both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are unwilling to complete the TTIP, given the US trade figures below: [TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD]Country[/TD] [TD]Imports ($m)[/TD] [TD]Exports ($m)[/TD] [TD]Total Trade ($m)[/TD] [TD]Balance ($m)[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]EU[/TD] [TD]416,666[/TD] [TD]270,325[/TD] [TD]686,991[/TD] [TD]-146,340[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Germany[/TD] [TD]114,227[/TD] [TD]49,362[/TD] [TD]163,589[/TD] [TD]-64,865[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Two simple questions spring to mind from the trade figures above. Why are we worried in the slightest about the trade terms being "dictated" to us by a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats from Brussels whose masters have more to lose than we do? How did we let Germany dominate world trade, post WWII to the detriment of countries they tried to enslave? As Trump warned them: In 1950, the UK was the world's largest exporter of cars. It just shows what socialism and the EU has done to our car industry since.

Definitely, lastly, this news sums up the whole rotten, German dominated EU: In my opinion, there will definitely be a fine, to avoid an investigation into German car makers. Hopefully the fine will help offset any exit bill the EU expect from the UK. F*** 'em, I say....