Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[mr.elbee] 16/2/2020 11:28

yes ,and put the BBC execs and stars on it.

Not real people

[mr.elbee] 16/2/2020 11:27

you are creating a panic.

look at the recovery rate..this is all journalistic mischievous behaviour.

[diku] 16/2/2020 11:27

Bring back that hilarious Spitting Image Show...

[minerve 2] 16/2/2020 11:24

Sell off its radio stations??????

Yes, to the friends and backers of Boris so they can make millions out of this.

Thanks for supporting this you gammons.

You really will go down as the despised generation.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 16/2/2020 11:22

Mr Elbee?

Bollux to what. There are tankers everywhere, moored offshore as the article says.

There will be a economic impact as the supply chains are up the spout. I hadn't actually realised how dependent so many companies were on China...

[bargainbob] 16/2/2020 11:21

Scotland's "£12.6Bn deficit" unravelled. Time to bust the subsidy myth.

Scotland's share of UK defence cost - £4.2Bn

Independent Scotland could follow Ireland's example and spend £0.6Bn by being militarily neutral.

=£3.6Bn saving

Scotland's share of UK foreign aid - £1.2Bn

Independent Scotland could spend - £0.5Bn. (Ireland spends around that amount.)

= £0.7Bn saving

Scotland's share of UK debt repayments - £4.3Bn

Independent Scotland could negotiate this down (as we have no obligation to pay) to just £1Bn. That's widely believed to be a sensible compromise.

= £3.3Bn saving

Scotland's share of UK's Capital Investment (roads and buildings) budget - £7.4Bn

Independent Scotland could spend £5.4Bn (same as Ireland) and it would still mean more actually spent in Scotland and it would be 100% Scotland focused. (At the moment, Scotland pays a share of massive overpriced English projects such as the HS2.)

= £2Bn saving

Scotland's share of UK wide General Government costs is currently £2Bn.

An independent Scotland would not have to pay to run Westminster, the House of Lords, or the various UK Government departments so could reduce this to £1bn in line with Ireland.

= £1Bn

So that's £10.6Bn total savings.

That means Scotland's "deficit" would only be 1% of GDP, and not the ridiculous 7.2% of GDP as claimed in the GERS figures.

This also means, that Scotland's budget deficit would be around HALF of the UK's as it currently stands. The UK's budget deficit was 1.9% last year.

Scotland sent £62.7Bn tax revenues to London last financial year.

This year the Scottish Government's budget will be £34bn.

The rest of Scotland's finances are spent on our behalf by London.

Ireland had £49.2Bn in tax revenues last year. Scotland had £13.5bn MORE than Ireland and with a similar population.

Scotland therefore is a relatively rich country with massive potential.

I am not an economist or an accountant, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that an independent Scotland would not contribute to English infrastructure projects, the House of Lords and House of Commons, would not spend ridiculous amounts on defence, would spend less on capital Investment, would not be forced to pay massive amounts to debt we wouldn't legally owe anyway etc.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out, we are being deceived and lied to.

[minerve 2] 16/2/2020 11:14

Obviously the gammons cannot see what motive the government have to weaken the BBC. Can you not see this puts more power into the media moguls?

Regardless of how bitter you may feel that the BBC was prejudiced against Brexiters it will be a sad day for the UK people to see this entity weakened.

It will lead to more spin on the news to make people think the way the plutocrats want you to think, to being exploited and manipulated and to put the blame on issues onto someone else.

You really are a bunch of old fools.

[mr.elbee] 16/2/2020 11:05

Front page of liberal ST today

THE END OF THE BEEB...FINISHED / DEAD/ OVER

[slater5] 16/2/2020 10:24

stoned..Stick to cutting and pasting from others, makes you look more intelligent.

[diku] 16/2/2020 09:49

Anybody think the amount of candidates that put their names for the leadership race... is to distort the % win for the front runner along the way...a deliberate ploy?...

[stonedyou] 16/2/2020 09:49

JohnSmith2

There is no 'law'. Law is not an absolute. Laws are simply codefied beliefs at a

given moment in time. They can be rewritten anytime. And after all that there

comes the 'interpretation' of these laws. And as we all know give six lawyers the

same law and they will all have different interpretaions of it. It is a farce.

But now we have to suffer the results of decades of Leftie infiltrators and

placeman who have all been given their positions by our politicians so that they

are given the 'interpretations' that the politicians want. We may be a right wing

leaning nation as a whole ...but those in positions of control are almost

exclusively leftwing.

[xxxxxy] 16/2/2020 09:38

BREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUMMARYThe EU's reluctant Valentine's gift to BorisEU27 goods trade figures for 2019 show UK as massive customer, second only to USATotal EU27 goods exports to UK : €319bnThis is 15% of global EU27 goods exports in 2019It's 61% more than the EU27 sold to ChinaIt's 42% of the EU27's entire sales to all non-EU European countries?© Brexit Facts4EU.Org - click to enlargeEU27 trade surpluses – the value of EU27 exports minus importsThe EU27 earned a €125 billion trade surplus from the UK in 2019That's a staggering 62% of the EU27's total global trade surplus in goods last yearThe EU27 made more from the UK than from the next five countries COMBINEDIt's 7 TIMES MORE than the EU did with Canada, whose trade deal the EU talks about constantly

[xxxxxy] 16/2/2020 09:31

Robert Young15 Feb 2020 6:59AMFor some reason I can't feel any sympathy for EU!Opportunity for UK is huge with the right budget in March to stimulate investmentWe need to make life hard for EU whilst we are negotiating with them, so lets all stop buying anything made in the EI - no more French, Italian or German wine, no more French cheese, no more Spanish tomatoes or lettuce, no more German and French cars - we must put the squeeze on them at all levels.Buy UK veg, buy UK cheese, buy UK cars, buy UK wine or from our Commonwealth friends or the US!

[diku] 16/2/2020 09:12

Good to read Sir John Redwood articles...what he is saying is No;10 No;11 and the BOE should all work together to promote growth...move away from the old legacy...

[crossing_the_rubicon] 16/2/2020 09:02

An economic shock is coming - the question is how bad will it be



"Tankers, Tankers. Everywhere!" - Virus Causes Historic' Traffic Jam' Across Asian Supply Lines"

[crossing_the_rubicon] 16/2/2020 09:02

Subscription model gets my vote!