Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[pal44] 25/5/2020 10:49

Think Bojo is Cummings puppet. Killing Cummins will finish bojo brexit and all the none sense great stuf ...

[minerve 2] 25/5/2020 10:46

I wonder if we would have had a very good base in tech and gaming if ignorants in the public had complained and stopped the BBC way of funding decades ago?

No licence fee.
Different funding model.
No BBC Micro.
No nationwide computer literacy program though free-to-air media channels.
No Imagination Technologies, no Graphcore, no Arm Holdings - at least to the strengths they became/are.

None of these, all because armchair ignorant fools can't see beyond their own little TeleTubby land.

[grahamite2] 25/5/2020 10:26

maxk #304788

The licence fee is by far the closest thing to a poll tax there has ever been in this country. It's surprising some sort of proposal like this hasn't been made before.

[diku] 25/5/2020 10:01

I think Bojo was wheeled out yesterday knowing all media questions would be about Cummings...no other Politician would want to get involved answering Cummings saga....probably Cummings idea as well as he would want people to know that he has not been sacked or pushed and the PM has his full support under the circumstances of his actions...few days later Cummings can step down on his own accord and no doubt media will sign him up for Political articles...

[xxxxxy] 25/5/2020 09:57

Lovely day in Wales. Time to be out and about. Get some of that sun, and freedom and people and parks and beaches and hills. Don't need excuses.Live a little.Love and Peace.Cymru am byth

[diku] 25/5/2020 09:38

Turned into couch potatoe...





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I too think 80% was over generous given no travel expenses, nothing to spend on. I think 65% was about right and for teachers as well. That amount would have encouraged wanting to go back to work. Just my opinion.

[jimarilo] 25/5/2020 09:35

Hertz files for bankruptcy, USA & Canada only currently

The initial problem people were put off hiring cars because they didn't know who had been driving them or where they had been. Deep cleaning cars trying to convince new customers

Airport branches must be totally dead, how long can Hertz UK hang on ?

[diku] 25/5/2020 09:26

Makes you wonder how many didn't even bother to vote?...could have easily been 50% or more...but good to see others speak out...




Hosking, 61, wrote to Lloyds before last week’s annual meeting, when more than a third of shareholders voted against a pay packet of up to £7m for boss Antonio Horta-Osorio. Hosking said there was “no point” in designing a new pay scheme until the bank had resolved “the dissonance between an (apparently) coherent strategy, and its complete failure from the point of view of shareholder returns”, even before Covid-19 hit.

[blueball] 25/5/2020 09:03

Hertz files for bankruptcy

[scruff1] 25/5/2020 08:53

Bill's paid without working then. Sounds good to me.

[maxk] 25/5/2020 08:45

Whilst you are all obsessing with the Cummings non story...the lefty termites are hard at work.




Wealthy could be charged more for their TV licence, suggests Lord Hall


David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent
Monday May 25 2020, 12.01am, The Times



The BBC has hinted that wealthier viewers will be asked to pay more as the corporation prepares to end free licences for those over 75.

Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the departing director-general, said the broadcaster should consider fairer and more proportionate funding models.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One yesterday, he raised the prospect of basing the fee on ability to pay or usage as he confirmed that the BBC was “preparing” to begin charging viewers over 75 from August, having shelved the plan because of the pandemic.

Lord Hall said his own view on the licence fee was that “we should look at can you make it fairer, make it proportionate, can you charge it in different ways?”

[bargainbob] 25/5/2020 08:19

Why Barnard Castle

[mitchy] 25/5/2020 07:29

So what for this week? On the one hand you've got the BOE considering negative interest to 'rescue' the economy and on the other signs of normality returning . With Hopefully the start of the share price returning to 'normality' as well ?Brexit seems like the least of our problems but we might see some progress even there this week.Who knows ?Good Luck.

[mitchy] 25/5/2020 07:22

80% of the average persons income goes towards paying bills.

[xxxxxy] 25/5/2020 06:35

AndNo Deal

[xxxxxy] 25/5/2020 06:24

Boss of Britain's biggest recruiter warns of 'tsunami of job losses' when furlough scheme endsJames Reed fears the labour market is heading towards a 'day of reckoning' when the support endsByTom Rees24 May 2020 • 9:30pm?The UK is facing a "tsunami of job losses" when the Government's huge support for workers' wages is wound down, the boss of Britain's biggest recruiter has warned.James Reed, chairman of online jobs site Reed, said he feared the labour market is heading towards a "day of reckoning" when the support ends."The worry is what happens when furlough winds up," he said. "Is there a wave of redundancies coming? The danger is a tsunami of job losses." Mr Reed added: "Companies I talk to are a half or a quarter of the size they were when they furloughed people, or they are on the verge of going bankrupt."Economists fear a second wave of redundancies could sweep the UK as the furlough scheme is rolled back, threatening to derail the economy's recovery.Some 856,500 people made new benefit claims in April, six times higher than any point in the financial crisis, while eight million are furloughed.The jobs retention scheme could be propping up so-called "zombie jobs" that would not survive without the support. The Government pays 80pc of furloughed workers' pay to prevent mass unemployment by the lockdown.The economy is unlikely to have staged a full recovery before the scheme is wound down, putting jobs at risk. Mr Reed predicts unemployment "will go up significantly" and warned the jobless rate could top 15pc.Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 25/5/2020 06:22

The garden centres were very busy today showing people do want more businesses working with social distancing.John Redwood

[xxxxxy] 25/5/2020 06:15

The price of solidarityBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: MAY 25, 2020For years Germany and the Netherlands have resisted any idea that the EU should borrow money together and spend it in the poorer areas of its territory. They wanted a currency union but not a benefits union, a monetary union but not a transfer union.The dollar area or the sterling area are currency unions backed by self governing states. In each there are large transfers of money from the richer parts of the area to the poorer parts. These take the form of grants to local government from central taxation, grants to individuals through the benefits system based on need, and common taxation raising m ore from the places where incomes are higher. As a city or county that suffers relatively low incomes cannot devalue against the richer places, it needs to the grants to get its living standards closer to the national average.Last week Germany and France came to an Agreement. They propose a Euro 500bn fund for the EU, to spend on recovery from the pandemic.  The money will be borrowed by the EU as a whole, where each state stands behind the loans in proportion to the size of tis economy.  If the EU decides to spend proportionately more in the distressed areas of its territory, then it would have some mild element of redistribution about it.Time will tell whether this is the first step on the full road to a transfer union, or whether this is a one off gesture soon to be watered down by delays in getting the money and by an approach that all states should have prizes in the lottery draw for the funds.I have always thought those in the EU who argue they need a transfer union to complete their monetary union are right. The problem is the true price of solidarity and more equal standards will be very high for German and Dutch taxpayers. Is this a saleable proposition to them?Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment