Tales of The Unknown Labour Action List ? Who read It ?

 NHS

• Secured £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth.

• Announced that over 1,000 more GPs will be recruited this year, supporting NHS services.

• Set out his long-term plan to rebuild our NHS for good and transform services over the next 10 years.

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Transport

• Ended train strikes, delivering for passengers.

• Launched new legislation to bring the UK's railways back into public ownership which will improve rail services.

• Given communities more power over their local bus services.

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Housing

• Banned no-fault evictions and introduced new protections for renters.

• Delivered planning reform to build the homes we need.

• Announced ‘Homes for Heroes’ - a programme to ensure all UK Armed Forces Veterans as well as domestic abuse survivors and care leavers have a roof over their head.

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Crime and Border Security

• Kickstarted a plan to restore neighbourhood policing.

• Scrapped the wasteful Rwanda scheme and launched a Border Security Command to smash the criminal smuggling gangs and improve the UK's border security.

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Education

• Launched a Curriculum and Assessment Review to help improve schools.

• Started the drive to recruit 6,500 teachers nationally, improving the education system.

• Launched Skills England to transform opportunities and drive growth.

• Scrapped single headline Ofsted grades in schools in landmark school reform.

• Overhauled apprenticeships through a new Growth and Skills Levy.

• Supported parents by announcing the first stage of the government's plan to deliver 3,000 school-based nurseries.

• Announced the Children's Wellbeing bill which will remove barriers to opportunity and make sure the school system is fair for every child.

• Kickstarted the rollout of free breakfast clubs for all primary school children through an early adopters scheme.

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Economy and employment

• Unveiled new measures to support small businesses impacted by late payments.

• Scrapped the ban on onshore wind and unblocked solar schemes to deliver lower bills and good jobs.

• Announced improved employment rights for workers, with a package of reforms that will Make Work Pay - including ending exploitative zero hour contracts, providing statutory sick pay from day one, and ending fire and rehire.

• Secured a record 131 new green infrastructure projects which will create jobs and drive growth.

• Announced a new National Wealth Fund to unlock private investment.

• Introduced a new Fiscal Lock Law to deliver economic stability and protect family finances.

• Announced new Covid Corruption Commissioner to get back what is owed to people.

• Launched landmark pensions review to support pensioners.

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Environment

• Launched a new Floods Resilience Taskforce to turbocharge flood preparedness and support delivery of flood defences.

• Delivered new measures to penalise water bosses who pollute waters.

• Announced a new deal for farmers, which will go further to support farmers, boosting rural economic growth and strengthening Britain's food security.

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Cost of living

• Launched the Warm Homes Plan to deliver lower energy bills and lift over one million households out of fuel poverty.

• Established the Child Poverty Taskforce, working across government departments to tackle child poverty.

• Working to drive up Pension Credit applications.

• Extended the Household Support Fund to support struggling households with bills and essential costs over winter.

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Defence

• Launched a new Armed Forces Commissioner who will be a strong, independent champion to improve life for UK service personnel and their families.

• Awarded our armed forces the largest pay increase in decades which will renew the nation's contract with those who serve.

The Tories presided over 14 years of decline, undermined our public services, and wrecked our economy.

Keir Starmer's Labour Government is getting on with the job, fixing the foundations of our country and delivering the long-term change Britain needs.

2030-2034

 

Aiming for 2030-

Aiming for 2030.
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   Ftse hits 30,000.
Dow Jones hits 80,000.

  All seems pretty unlikely as we are at 6,000 & 14,000 respectively today.

These of course , are based on my own methodology and not allowing for re-rating by governing bodies.
  And of course all important bottoms, should be 12,000 & 21,000 if 2030 is the big drop year.

 What does this tell us ? The stock market is still pretty good long term value ,even for those whom don`t wish to trade their shares regularly. Especially dividend stocks of which there are several ,or even better dividend paying index stocks.

  One thing for sure ,bet my sister and cousin wish they had listened to my advice.

First Published in 2011.

Non-Dom Lies & Fabrication expose .

 Last spring, Britain’s newspapers and money-watchers promised a mass exodus of wealth. Labour’s plan to scrap the “non-dom” tax status, Henley & Partners warned, would drive high-net-worth individuals from Britain in droves. Henley, who make money selling passports to the globally mobile rich, said the scale would be historic, a fiscal catastrophe in the making. Within days, the spectre of a millionaire migration was front-page fact. Rachel Reeves’s first fiscal move as chancellor would unravel before it began.

HMRC’s new payroll data has proven otherwise. The number of top earners on PAYE, the best real-time proxy for high-income residents, has not collapsed. In fact, receipts from that group are holding up. There is no sign of the disproportionate departures Henley forecast, or the domino effect of rich following rich out of the UK. Crisis averted.

It is a small but pointed vindication for Reeves. The non-dom reform is still forecast to raise billions over the next five years. For once, the “wealth will flee” mantra collided with hard numbers and lost. Henley has now softened its claims, dropping “exodus” from its vocabulary. Yet the moment passed months ago; the initial campaign did its work, and it is much easier to plant a headline than to uproot it.

TARGET 2034

 A couple of more rambles .

Where are we ?

I have already 50% of my current portfolio in IGLT .

One Will be adding as we close in on 2034 . Always be prepared ( just in case Christmas for Mr Bear comes early ) 

It`s been a hectic time for Mr B , personally .

One hopes from now a couple of less tempestuous  years lay ahead .

Much LOVE to ALL my Friends that remain Outstanding .

Well done All 

Are We Alive 2034 ????

 

April 1 ; 2009

My research from 2009

My first purchase of shares was a bit daunting.
Having stepped into the cold water on this date ,I have learnt oodles.
Being overall in slightly positive territory, thus far .It should have been oh so much better.
One learns to one`s cost that overtrading is costly. The contract for difference experience also.
Both have cost dearly so far.

Time for change ;
Make your choice (on individual shares ) and sit and hold. This applies particularly to small shares. Not so with larger one`s which ,on the whole follow the indexes.
Indexes are a safe place ?
  Dow Jones Estimates ;        At end of year :


                      2013           14,000    TICK
                      2016           20,000      "
                      2019           24,000      "
                      2022           28,000      "
                      2025           35,000      "
                      2028           42,000      "
                      2031           53,000

       This is allowing for no overshock  ,  as experienced in 2009.. Although by 2031 we may be pretty close to another one. So, always be prepared.
 Bottom estimate 2031 could be as low as 20,377.

    History ,as usual is a great guide .Use it to your own advantage and always keep your beady eyes on the market discombobulations.


                       Happy days for bulls , not so happy for bears. TICK

SUMMARY 15/07/2025

   Disappointing we cannot find the old gold targets although about $3500 2025 in post somewhere .2034 target should be $6000 , on the 9% rule .

   As you can see on the posts above , we are ahead of schedule on stocks / DOW ,

Barclay Brothers Run Off With The Cash ( £278 million estimate)20/06/2024

 Attempts to trace the cash via a network of companies controlled by the Barclay family have been unsuccessful as part of a review of seven years of potentially irregular transactions that has drawn interest from criminal investigators.

Specialists from HMRC and the National Crime Agency, which acts as an information clearing house for financial authorities including the Serious Fraud Office, have been in contact with the company and its advisers. It has not been disclosed if investigations have been launched and the Barclay family declined to comment.

The £278m, recorded as a “provision” in accounts for 2023 newly filed at Companies House, pushed The Telegraph to a record loss of £245m last year despite what its leaders said was a strong underlying performance.

The sum includes more than £200m extracted as loans on annual amounts in the tens of millions, as well as more than £20m in fees related to the ownership crisis that has gripped the business since last summer. A further £55m relates to a corporate loan.

The losses on paper came despite rises in turnover and underlying earnings that were driven by growth in digital subscriptions and advertising. The Telegraph’s independent directors, brought in when the Barclay family lost control a year ago, said the underlying business remains healthy.

Turnover increased by 5pc to £268m, within which digital subscription revenue was up 18pc and digital advertising 33pc. Total subscriptions, which include print and digital, puzzles and “bonus” free subscriptions, topped one million after climbing more than 300,000.

One wonders where the Dynamic Duo will be found ?

Happiness & Health are the best of Friends to court , long may they be dear accomplices of Ours

 As the long term wait for an uptick remains elusive .

Life gets in the way of progress .

Outstanding

       Gold / bbr391

The Great Post Office Swindle 2024

 Well done Sir Wyn  ( Pitbull , Pint of Beer please & Team )

Keep putting them dreadfully lazy people through the pain ( they so richly deserve )

Bit of a shame not much  mud manged to stick on Crozier . One hopes ALL will be fined & prosecuted financially ( even Crow ) 

Horizons Originators need An extra proportioned cost .

Fujitsu MUST pay at least 50% of all the Net Cost .

A threatened ban on their products , may wake up their conscience

Outstanding

Renationalisation of Water Imminent ( Let`s Get Better ) 2024

 

Thames Water crisis deepens

The government is exploring the possibility of temporarily nationalising Thames Water. The utility company, which serves 15 million people in London and its surrounding areas, has debts in excess of £14bn – 80% of the total value of the business.

It is currently seeking “further equity funding” on top of the £500m it raised from shareholders just three months ago. 

While the consortium that has owned Thames Water since 2017 is yet to pay shareholders a dividend, some analysts blame the current malaise on its previous owner, Macquarie. The Australian bank withdrew £2.7bn in dividends from the water company while increasing its borrowings by more than £7bn. 

The water industry is facing a wider crisis. British water companies have collectively racked up £65bn in debt since privatisation, raising fears over their ability to modernise leaky infrastructure.

Of course this goes back to Thatch .

Why are these companies not overseen with  stricter parameters .

Poor Old Taxpayers ie ( YOU & I ) will again pick up the tab for stupidity & greed.

Outstanding

Sébastien de Montessus £23 million Steal . Tip of the Iceberg ?

 

Sacked FTSE 100 chief executive to forfeit £23m in pay and benefits

Sébastien de Montessus of Endeavour Mining was sacked this month over allegations of a multimillion-dollar ‘irregular payment

How many Other Bosses should be giving back their overblown remittances .

Dreadful People running such large businesses .

Where is your  magnanimity .

Bosses continue to DISAPPOINT everyone else But themselves .