Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

But why didnt Hunt say any fee would be waived when he made this statement......

"But yesterday the government announced they were advising non-EU visitors to voluntarily contact the NHS if they develop symptoms of Ebola while in the UK:

“Passengers to be told to make contact with the NHS should they develop Ebola symptoms.“

The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he hoped travellers from those countries would “self-present” to the authorities if they developed any symptoms of illness.".................. ends

If they can say that 70, 000 plus people are fit for work only for them to die within weeks of finding them fit for work I wouldnt put anything past this present Tory Government.

fred asks - What are the levels of oil level imports into the UK and other EU countries now and compared 2008,9,10,11,12,13,14 ?


i have absolutely no idea at all, but it can't be hard to find out
however, this is why there is now such huge interest in shale gas/oil and fracking for same
nor should it be forgotten that only about 40% (or less?) of an oil reservoir are recovered with current technology .... this will assuredly be exploited in time, which is why there was (at one time) such an interest in companies like Corac

Yep but hes pointing at overall demand Cyners,.

Dont forget we are still 10% off highs before the crisis began, hence supply greater than demand and falling prices.

Not just here but the World over.

Deflation creeps up you far faster than you think, whoooooooooooooosh and its present.

I believe Hilary was wrong to just dismiss it like she did yesterday.

sorry; in that case i missed the rest of the post .... it just happened to open there when i turned on this morning

lower oil prices
it's summer so demand is always lower
us is now a nett exporter
saudi in particular has no interest in lowering its production
$ is significantly stronger



however, i certainly don't like the feel of the chemical markets at the moment
traffic has nose-dived in the last few months

this is not only due to slackening demand in china, though in truth its economy still thrives big time, but the effect of the war in syria/iraq has also had a significant impact, in particular on business sentiment

as for the eurozone, i have never believed germany's assertions that all was hunky-dory, and that is now being admitted ..... france of course is close to being a basket case

uk for its part, is currently defying the odds, but it cannot do so indefinitely

yes whoooooooooooooooooooooosh.

scottish devolution
i'm very stupid, but why is salmond crying for his mummy?

it looks to me that the gov't is passing across powers as promised, but many mps are then rightly asking why scottish mps should then have any say in measures taken in parliament that affect england only

of course it's never quite that simple in practice as it is in principle

Because its a Tory stitch up.

in a way, yes it is but i'll use the analogy of the heron and the frogs once more

Go on then

Use what you want bud, its not happening.

what's not happening?

This

Landing a man on Mars.

Perhaps, what they want is to escape from the London orientated politics!

yes and no would seem to be the answer to that ..... they can have their labour buddies instead :-)


for sure an awful lot of games being played behind the scenes, but quite amusing nevertheless

It's in the Guardian, so it must be true!




UK unemployment rate falls to 6.0%, lowest since Lehman Brothers collapsed - live




LIVE updated 3m ago


Graeme Wearden

Wednesday 15 October 2014 09.39 BST




http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2014/oct/15/uk-unemployment-wages-china-inflation-shire-business-live

Q. Remember the date '1066'?
A. Yes. Everyone knows the answer. It was the year of the Battle of Hastings.

The link below is to a very fascinating and carefully revised take on it by a guy called Dr Dominic Selwood, who writes the history blog for the Telegraph.

Selwood is a former criminal barrister, novelist and historian with a passion for the less visited corners of the archives. He is the author of the crypto-thriller, The Sword of Moses (2013), and the textbook on the Knights Templar, Knights of the Cloister (1999). He tweets as @DominicSelwood :

"We like to think that Anglo-Saxon England was brutally cut down in 1066 — unexpectedly — in a battle lasting just one day. To reinforce our assumptions, we still revel in Victorian and Hollywood melodrama stereotypes of dastardly Normans persecuting flaxen Saxons in box-sets of Ivanhoe or Tolkein’s thinly disguised versions set in Middle Earth.

The reality, of course, is far more complex."

The-true-story-of-the-battle-of-hastings-today-in-1066/

The SNP want another referendum within the next few years as they think they will win the next time. Their argument that the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems colluded at the last minute to help the no vote -and are now trying to wriggle out of their promises- is going to help their cause. Cameron is obviously trying to stir things with Labour as he has little left to lose in Scotland.

Fishfinger,

I didn't just dismiss deflation yesterday. I simply pointed out that there is a difference between falling inflation and deflation (albeit I didn't explicitly say that), and there is absolutely no imminent threat of there being deflation within the UK (as opposed to Spain, where I think prices have actually fallen y/y).

The fact is that falling inflation is a good thing right now. It helps narrow the gap between inflation and earnings increases (you've been going on about falling living standards on this thread for, errrr, yonks). Another consequence is that it means the MPC are less likely to raise interest rates, which, in turn, prompts a sterling sell off and helps UK exporters.

In addition, and given that the UK has been a net importer of energy since 2013 as part of continuing trend of declining UK fossil fuel extraction, and that oil, like all other commodities, is priced in USD, then the chances of there ever being deflation within the UK are probably next to zero.

The current policies seem to be working well. One consequence is that unemployment figures today are the lowest since 2008.