Remember when Lloyds was galloping at front? Now NatWest is catching up.
LLOY Market cap 37.33bn GBP
NWG Market cap 34.25bn GBP
BARC Market cap 41.72bn GBP |
 Lloyds Banking Group is to close another 136 branches across the UK as customers continue the shift to primarily online banking.
The bank said that it would close 61 Lloyds branches along with 61 Halifax and 14 Bank of Scotland sites, starting in May with completion of the closure plan in March 2026.
A spokesperson for the banking group said:
Over 20 million customers are using our apps for on-demand access to their money and customers have more choice and flexibility than ever for their day-to-day banking
The high-street lender said that staff working in the affected branches would be offered another role at another branch or in a different part of the business.
Earlier this month, Lloyds said it will allow customers to use any of its Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds branches, roughly a quarter of its branches are closely located to each other.
Lloyds currently has about 932 branches, but previously announced closures will take that figure down to 892 branches by the end of 2025.
That includes 447 Lloyds Bank sites, 341 Halifax-branded branches and 104 Bank of Scotland locations.
The latest announcement of closures will bring the total down to 756 by the end of March next year. |
bit like living under socialist rule for the last 30 years |
10 year gilt at 4.58%, slowly improving.
Trump ans Starmer seem to be getting along.
UK more important to Trump that Musk or Farage.
President is in his last 4 years in power now, he does not need them after the election.
Trump would like to get along with the `UK.
He needs us as he takes on the EU.
Also his ambitions for Greenland.
The ex Danish PM said the other day that the UK has the first call on Greenland after a 2017 legal agreement.
All tied in a complicated relationship with Canada the closest land mass to Greenland.
When it comes down to this international game of chess, the land grab, the USA need UK onside.
Musk and Farage will be dumped by smart Trump.
All of these important global issues ongoing and Labour trying hard to get the economy going. Even if we sometimes disagree with the direction of travel, at least they are trying very hard.
We have Farage and Musk arguing about Robinson and some evil unhinged knife murderer. Whether this nutter gets 52 year or life is of no consequence, the long term prisoners will make his jail life unbearable. |
simple
vote reform UK at the next opportunity |
Ayatollah moment more likely. Wonder which will be finished first - 3rd runway, HS2 or life on Mars.Ravin Rache was utterly opposed to a 3rd runway in her pre student chancellor days. |
It's not her fault the country is disappearing down the plug hole, give her a break Scruff....like the younguns in Whitehall tasked with running the country she's got no experience either. We're currenty following the communist Russia/ China models of the 1920's of centralised power. We are currently the most centrally governed country in the world add to that finance & media and its not difficult to see that irrespective of which party holds power the provinces were never going to keep up...many places now in terminal decline. Won't be long till we have our Boris Yeltsin moment. |
Kyiv Has No Plan To Keep Control Of Donbass
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The entire defense system of Ukraine is crumbling in the Donbass. The Ukrainian army tattered by heavy defeats and internal strife emerging in the ranks cannot stop retreating, throwing entire units into cauldrons in an attempt to gain some time.
The Kyiv regime puts its political aspirations over military needs and strategic logic. While losing his own country, Zelensky highlights that the Russian Kursk region remains one of the priority directions.
Looking for political benefits in battles on Russian territory, Kyiv risks to lose much more. The ongoing Russian victories over one Ukrainian fortress after another bring them wide room for further maneuvers, where the Ukrainian army is hastily trying to reinforce positions in the urban areas.
In the south, the Russian victory in Velikaya Novoselka deprived Ukrainians of the strategically important stronghold and logistics hub. While securing its positions in Velikaya Novoselka and repelling Ukrainians from the settlements near Konstantinople, the Russian army has already increased pressure on the weakened Ukrainian positions on the front up to Pokrovsk. Russian forces took control of Nadezhdinka and launched an assault on Sribnoe. Advancing to the west, the Russian military threatens Ukrainian defense in Konstantinople and Pokrovsk with additional pressure from the flanks.
Pokrovsk is already surrounded from several directions. Southwest of the city Russians are rapidly expanding their bridgehead, advancing in different directions along the dominant heights from their stronghold near Kotlino. They use the same tactics that brought them victory in Ocheretino and gained the name of the “Ocheretino flower”.
The results of the battles for Toretsk and Chasov Yar are also clear. In the first stronghold, Ukrainians fiercely resist in their last positions on the outskirts. In the latter, the Ukrainian garrison is still fighting in the center and holds control of the southern district; but the pincer grip around it is still tightening. With heavy battles, the Russian army is approaching another Ukrainian fortress, the town of Konstantinovka from the north, east and south.
Several Russian groups move at once simultaneously on a wide front. Following advice of the NATO military, Ukrainians attempt to contain the advancing enemy with the prolonged urban battles but despite heavy losses in cauldrons, they retreat leaving ruins behind. There are only a few cities left to hide from the Russian offensive.
Destroying one Ukrainian stronghold after another, the Russian army is approaching the Dnepropetrovsk region. The further Russian offensive will threaten Ukrainian communications between the rear and the entire Donbass front.
The Ukrainian army has no forces left to deter attacks in all directions. The chaotic actions of the Ukrainian command, which throws reserves from one battlefield to another, suppose that Kyiv has no general plan of defense.
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Has she said anything about regional government Careful. It's Whitehall that's responsible for the managed decline of this country.
This interview with Paul Collier Oxford economics Don explains all. |
we have a serious govt at last who wants to tax us all to the hilt |
HSBC scales back UK's investment banking arm as it looks to 'simplify' the business |
a pity MOOMOO does not accept UK customers but only operates in OZ where I live and in USA . Commission is 0.03% or $3 ( about £1.50) minimum and NO stamp duty in OZ Almost impossible to lose money when trading or day trading as you can imagine :) |
scruff1,
your commentary on cruises amused me . Sounds like what a stand up comedian would say :) |
Special Episode of the Sceptic: David Starkey on Southport, the Grooming Gangs,
Multiculturalism, National Identity and More
by Richard Eldred 27 January 2025 7:00 AM
David Starkey, "Starmer is contemptible".............
Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Professor David Starkey CBE, the eminent and acerbic historian, author and broadcaster.
In a wide-ranging conversation, host Laurie Wastell and Professor Starkey discuss the grooming gangs scandal, why Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter represents the end of the long 20th Century, Trump’s second term, free speech, state censorship and the “noble lie” of multiculturalism, the parallels between communism and liberalism and why Keir Starmer’s response to the Southport massacre has been “contemptible beyond contempt”. In the premium section, they discuss English individualism and why it gave birth to the modern world, the challenge of imported ethnic tribalism, national identity in an age of immigration and what is to be done.
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Oh aye. Brilliant |
and more BS
The changes mean the Cabinet will be expected to set out the growth credentials of every single policy proposal, with the impact on the economy poised to take priority.
“Rigorous assessments” will be carried out on the growth impact of each new measure before collective agreement on it is reached, allowing any measures which harm the economy to be vetoed if the Prime Minister wishes.
BS talk |
Our trust in their hands?
FGS thieving Rache - only a blind beggar would entrust pension funds to ur lot.
Dont get it do u Rache ? u are clueless - third runway at heathrow with the mad ed saying only windmill planes - ? gliders ore OK for u - not for me of course -business class eh m8
Dont forget to stock up on ur fav wines - Thieving is fining u from Sat. |
That's my attempt to put a picture of the ship, Seabourn ovation, if you look very very closely you can see it sailing across!!! |
[.....} whats that mean? Is it the plimsol line |
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