Barry Smith 🔶
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Barry Smith 🔶
@barrysw19.bsky.social
LibDem, Green LibDem, sometime hopeless musician and chess player. Will program computers for money. Following (back) 🔶 LibDems 🔶

Sometimes promoted by the Liberal Democrats, 1 Vincent Square, SW1P 2PN.
You'll probably want to skip Christmas too then.
December 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
...but we're too worried about losing votes to Reform to do anything about it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If you put £10k in a cash ISA today then in 20 years it will probably be worth about £10k in real terms. If you put it in a S&S ISA it will probably be worth about £25k. Seems cash ISAs are the real risk.
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
To be fair, people who understand money management well enough to do that probably understand about investing anyway.
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's like having to end every car advert with a warning 'car drivers risk disability and death from road accidents'.
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
To be fair, the most efficient way for them to do it is probably to put more into their pension fund though.
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I don't need to, I can just look at how my investments have performed. My cash has basically just kept pace with inflation, my stock market investments have grown significantly. My cash is just there for short term emergency use.
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It really is - nobody gets rich through holding cash.
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Are you suggesting it's best to try and time the market?
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If Putin is such a genius why does he have his King and Queen the wrong way round?
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
That shut you up, didn't it?
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Meh, the £7,000 the Express had to pay me for running that story says otherwise.
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
That seems like peak hypocrisy anonymous account.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Oh dear, you seem far too immature to be a Dad.
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM