Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[alphorn] 22/6/2020 08:39

G2 - Did you get that monthly total mortality data that you wanted from my link?

[geckotheglorious] 22/6/2020 08:21

Optomistic,

You can uninstall Microsoft Edge?
Or just disable it??

Have similar issue as Mike...

I've uninstalled Google Chrome. Have Brave as main browser.

[xxxxxy] 22/6/2020 08:09

Perhaps we are all his constituents now

[xxxxxy] 22/6/2020 08:08

Dear ConstituentBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JUNE 22, 2020         Writing this letter is overshadowed  by more sadness as we grieve the loss of life in Reading this week-end. We wish the police well with discovering who was involved and why, so prosecution can follow.                 There is some good news about the pandemic. In the last week the latest chart I have been sent shows there were no new cases of the disease reported in Wokingham Borough and only one in West Berkshire. The pressures on the Royal Berks have abated, and I had no more complaints about the supplies of protective clothing or the availability of tests. NHS supplies are working well and testing capacity is greatly increased.             The government has given priority in all its decisions to getting the virus under better control and bringing down the death rate. It now is turning to its second important aim, saving livelihoods and allowing some recovery in business to save jobs. I have worked closely with Ministers on safe ways of working to get more people into work and more businesses trading, whilst encouraging more homeworking and remote working through internet technology wherever possible. I also urged the government at the start to provide financial assistance to people and businesses who temporarily were told not to work. The government came up with the  furlough and small business schemes, which have helped many during a difficult time.             We are but part of the way through relaxations to allow more people to work and earn money for their businesses. It is good news that shops can now reopen, and many factories have returned to manufacture. We are  now in the run up to two crucial dates. The first is July 4th, when it is likely hotels, restaurants and other leisure and hospitality venues will be able to re-open, subject to social distancing rules. The second is the new school year starting in September, when we hope the schools will return for all pupils.              Shortening the social distance from 2 metres to 1 is important to both these areas of life for re opening to have chance of some success. 1 metre is the required minimum recommended by the World Health Organisation. It can be made safer by the use of screens, air flow management, use of masks and other protective clothing, and one way systems for people where corridors and passages are narrow.  Business and schools are currently working on  getting the right configuration within their premises and thinking through how to operate safely.             I would like to thank all those teachers and school support and management staff who have provided an educational service for a limited number of pupils on the school site and a digital service for pupils at home during the crisis. I wish all well in planning the right approach to a return to full time education for all, which may continue to need more digital input than before and some reorganisation of the physical space.             I and many of you have thanked the NHS  staff many times for coping with the seriously ill during the height of the pandemic, and I do so again. The task now for all the NHS is to get the rest of the service back to normal. As the Health Secretary frequently reminds us, the NHS is open again for all those with serious conditions like cancer who must  not be put off going for care in hospitals. The NHS also needs to set out a plan for tackling the backlog of non  urgent surgery which has built up during the intense period of the virus.                 Much now rests on the consumer. The majority have kept their jobs and have often spent less over the lock down, saving money on travel,  leisure and a variety of services they were not allowed to use. We now  need the Town Centres to be attractive and easy to reach to give the shops, cafes, restaurants and service providers every chance to rebuild their businesses and to tempt customers. I hope Councils will work with business to create a warm welcome in shopping areas, allowing good access.                  In the days ahead we need both to avoid a major upsurge in the disease and to open up much more of our economy to save jobs. The financial support put in was necessary and has helped, but it is not an affordable answer for the future. It can only be a temporary measure, as it is all  being borrowed. The future must rest on good co-operation over testing and tracing to keep the virus down, allied to safe rebuilding of as much of our former goods and services trade  as possible so people can earn a living again.                I would also like to thank my office staff for helping cope with an unprecedented volume of emails and cases brought on by these extraordinary times and by the enforced temporary extension of government  into so much of our lives.Yours sincerelyJohn Redwood

[freddie01] 22/6/2020 07:52

the tory party is finished

Not while people fear a Labour Government.

[mitchy] 22/6/2020 00:42

It occurred to me today that the main sectors to suffer in the virus crisis are leisure and travel companies. The energy sectors also but to a lesser extent.So I'm thinking that if people haven't been spending their money on non essentials they should have savings to start buying again. I'm certainly seeing lots of buyers in my business of sofas. Of course many have lost significant income but I'm seeing lots of people with savings itching to buy. Retail therapy ?Perhaps the gloom and doom predictions are just plain wrong. With all the stimulus poured into the system we may actually see a bonanza. Just my honest thoughts no ramp intended.Good Luck.

[maxk] 21/6/2020 23:09

Dont mention the BLM fundraising efforts being diverted into the Uncle Joe Bidon election fund.

[jl5006] 21/6/2020 22:31

As I have said b4.
Should oxbridge be offensive to the knownouts then just close them down
They are no longer seats of learning.


And Royston you want corruption back big time with Krays in the form of the Clintons- GL there

[minerve 2] 21/6/2020 22:29

And there is one of them!

LOL

[grahamite2] 21/6/2020 22:27

Under Obama the US was getting as corrupt as NYC in Tammany Hall days, with the Justice Department and the IRS both overtly used for Party political purposes. If Crooked had been elected she'd have finished the job.

The Democrats always have been the Party of dirty tricks and nothing has changed.

[royston6] 21/6/2020 22:07

I think you are right Minerve.

I lived in New York in the 90's when Clinton was POTUS, he was a good President, left 'W' Bush with a great economy.

Sadly the USA is in a sad state, I have friends there who are stressed out with what is happening. Can only hope the US kick the orange moronic conman out this November before he brings an end to the world.

[minerve 2] 21/6/2020 22:06

Plenty of rednecks on this board.

[xxxxxy] 21/6/2020 21:19

Bored with Woke now.Going to bed.And No Deal.

[xxxxxy] 21/6/2020 21:18

Stephen Clothier21 Jun 2020 6:16PMIn another article:Academics are too scared to stand up for the British Empire because it is not "fashionable" and they believe they would get "mobbed", a leading Oxford scholar has said.So we now have the "new normal" that freedom of speech is a thing of the past. So much for the open internet blah blah. DT doesn't let us comment in that article but at least they report it.2LikeReplyCarolyn Brown21 Jun 2020 6:29PMEven people with a backbone have to fear that activists would get them sacked. We have to fight to change the evil sanctimonious, censorious culture which is developing and crushing any freedom of word or thought. As it stands, going to university is becoming worthless and a waste of money.1LikeReplyMartin Woodville21 Jun 2020 6:35PM@Stephen Clothier Well said.  It's truly terrifying that free speech is limited to parroting woke dogma and any other view will get you sacked, no platformed, assaulted or viciously trolled.  Universities are the worst, no longer places of learning, they're like medieval monasteries, no one is allowed to think or question, you just copy down dogma.  No longer taught how to think, but what to think.

[jl5006] 21/6/2020 20:10

Why is this matter not questioned?
Allow drinking on the streets? Contrary to LA laws?
Where did these clowns ever get their clout.
read Halligan in the Tele - this is much worse than thought - indeed it is - thanks to science -

[gary1966] 21/6/2020 19:57

I might add nominee accounts have exasperated the problem as they effectively took the right of shareholders to vote away. I have to pay £25 if I wish to exercise my vote. As you can imagine that could get quite expensive over a year and as you said, the private investor has very little sway on what goes on in a company.

[jl5006] 21/6/2020 19:25

Just an observation
The Sage group seemingly issued an ultimatum to BJ after DC challenged them.
Subsequently the social distancing rule came into play.
Scientists insist that their ruling is correct.
Sage considered that the 2 mtr rule is absolutely right.
They cant be because simple atmospheric changes blow their poor opinion out of the window.
Spit blows further in a gale - wind plays mindless games - yet the definitive is 2 mtrs because = no explanation by ppl who cannot look outside their box and simply ask what if we are wrong.
Guardianistas - a mirror would be useful

[dexdringle] 21/6/2020 19:10

Cobourg1 10482 - best ADVFN Lloyds post in a long, long, time.

[cobourg1] 21/6/2020 18:36

In my experience directors are self-serving counts, if that's the way you spell the word.

What irritates me is the way that the big shareholders smilingly nodded through all their self interested greedy proposals at the AGM.

The economist J.K Galbraith warned about this fifty years ago. Big corporations are out of control of their shareholders (the real owners of course) because the shareholding is so spread that anti board motions can never gather enough support. If you want to invest in big corporations then you just have to put up with it, as I do. In far too many cases big companies are run for the benefit of their boards and managers, shareholders are a long way down the pecking order. Dividends are grudgingly paid only when they have to be. Now they have this great excuse not to pay dividends and they are seizing it with both hands, rolling over to the Bank of England without any concern for all the people who depend on the dividends for their income. Not me fortunately.

Boards of directors often don't seem to care about the share price, but what gives them an underpants filling fright is the possibility of a takeover because the company is so undervalued. That soon has them scrabbling around to get the share price up.

Roll on - even a rumour would probably do it with Lloyds, and considering the assets and earnings prospects it is stupidly cheap.

[jl5006] 21/6/2020 17:26

And PHW is no better.
PHS rightly linked to a sanitary towel collector.