Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[alphorn] 05/6/2020 16:09

PC - why was it particularly noteworthy about BASF?

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:58

Your farm will be looking for handouts soon patient. People in glass houses and all that. :)

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:57

The political agreement was signed when BORIS WAS IN POWER!

[xxxxxy] 05/6/2020 15:57

Have to say. The EUSSR is a load of FAECES.No Deal

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:56

"German chemicals giant BASF has emerged as the largest recipient of the Bank of England’s Covid-19 "

WHO CARES? IF THEY QUALIFY SO WHAT?

At least it is a rather large blue chip chemicals company and not some dodgy unaccountable outfit linked to a Tory donor.

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:54

maxk

It doesn't matter who agreed it. It was agreed by the UK government and that is all we need to know. All because we change Tory leaders like the weather is no fault of the EU's and if we had sincerity and integrity - you know, what decent people used to have - then we would honour that agreement whether we like it or not and even if it is to our detriment. There is a very severe cost to be paid when integrity is lost. If you don't like the agreement blame the Tory party for its incompetent don't blame Barnier.

[patientcapital] 05/6/2020 15:54

Interesting"The German chemicals giant BASF has emerged as the largest recipient of the Bank of England's Covid-19 emergency funding scheme despite only employing 834 people in Britain" The Times

[maxk] 05/6/2020 15:48

Min.

That one sided agreement was a Treeza and Olly production.

It cost her job in the end. And never got it approved.

Boris was elected on a quite different mandate.

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:42

No competitive tenders. No accountability. Just corrupt government. We might as well have Putin. At least he is a proper leader. A man amongst men and would whip poor little Boris in a mind or physical fight.

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:40

Billions going to the mates of Boris and co and it is OUR money taxpayers. I just don't get how this doesn't make you morons angry.

[alphorn] 05/6/2020 15:38

Anyone remember Cambridge Analytica?

Anyone following Faculty and Palantir? The contracts now released show that the companies involved, including Faculty and Palantir, were originally granted intellectual property rights (including the creation of databases), and were allowed to train their models and profit off their unprecedented access to NHS data.

Anyone have links to these guys?

[minerve 2] 05/6/2020 15:37

maxk

There was a political declaration that both sides spent a great deal of time on and agreed last year. If Boris and Co are just going to run a steamroller through it all like a group of spoilt public school boys what was the point putting all the effort in to agreeing one in the first place? More importantly, what sort of message does this send out to other countries we are looking to do business with?


Come on, please grow up, we are not in your world of window and toilet cleaning for a fiver here and a tenner there. This is the UK government!

[smurfy2001] 05/6/2020 15:01

Bowl formation

[bargainbob] 05/6/2020 14:38

All unions not looking good imho .

[mr.elbee] 05/6/2020 14:13

hxxps://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

[grahamite2] 05/6/2020 13:56

Good for Trump if it holds.

[alphorn] 05/6/2020 13:51

G2 - win/win was booted out the window early on.

On another subject the US jobs report just now is a bit of a surprise!

[grahamite2] 05/6/2020 13:47

Alphorn, I am absolutely not a fan of Mr Cameron, but I don't think he bears much responsibility for what happened then. By all accounts he made it very clear that he needed some help, and that the situation in England was distinctly unsettled.

But this was when the EU did not do compromise. At all. They told people the way it was going to be and that was that.

How much they have changed remains to be seen.

[excell1] 05/6/2020 13:44

Pleased they did offer him FA. If they had we would have still been in the EU.
Now is our chance, get out and stay out.

[alphorn] 05/6/2020 13:42

G2 - as with whirlwinds there is often collateral damage.

(I agree btw that Cameron was weak/treated badly or both at the outset).