Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[freddie01] 21/10/2020 10:29

Yes Alphorn. Awful event.

[scruff1] 21/10/2020 10:27

Alp
Yep just read on FXStreet. Like you say snippets nothing much more.
Here's today's starter for 10. Most of my life I have always thought that a council leader was the executive power so to speak. The mayor's job was to wear big gold plated chains and take his wife in the official black limo to open garden parties, new buildings etc. This seems to have changed in Manchester. Why do they need both of them seeing as they both claim to respect their citizens cash?

[minerve 2] 21/10/2020 10:27

"Royal Mail launches doorstep parcel collections in ecommerce boom "

They are a bit slow. I could have told them to do that 3 or 4 years ago.

[alphorn] 21/10/2020 10:24

freddie - a good reminder - a terrible event.

[minerve 2] 21/10/2020 10:23

"You are TINY and insignificant, try and get used to it."

Have you looked in the mirror Little Englander!


ROFLMAO!

[freddie01] 21/10/2020 10:15

The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in Wales on 21st October 1966.

The tip had been built on a mountain slope above the village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales and overlaid a natural spring.

A period of heavy rain, for several days, led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to slide downhill in the form of slurry,

killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School, nearby houses and other buildings.

[alphorn] 21/10/2020 10:12

Oh, so your post Brexit Britain will be horse drawn? What breeds will you use?

Please also list British owned truck manufacturers. A clue, it may not be a long post.

[xxxxxy] 21/10/2020 10:04

More to life than greasy gearboxes.Brexit has to be sovereign and independent Brexit.Freedoms and Democracy matter a lot more than silly gearboxes.No DealWTO

[alphorn] 21/10/2020 09:56

A couple of snippets + forex move.

.........but who knows! ;)

[scruff1] 21/10/2020 09:53

846 - source?

[poikka] 21/10/2020 09:48

846 - really?

[mo123] 21/10/2020 09:36

British pound jumps as EU’s top Brexit negotiator says a trade deal is within reach.

[alphorn] 21/10/2020 09:23

According to the epistle of x5 I should return my gearboxes from my JLR products to Germany. I know that it is difficult for you - but get real. Lol

[xxxxxy] 21/10/2020 09:21

Remind you, Aberfan Day

[xxxxxy] 21/10/2020 09:19

Prime Minister is already paving the way for Britain to leave the bloc on WTO terms at the end of the year and spoke to business leaders yesterday to stress the "fantastic opportunities" which awaited during a conference call with 250 business leaders. However, Brexiteer John Redwood - a leading light in the eurosceptic European Research Group - said a deal was still possible provided the bloc showed the necessary flexibility.... Daily Express ... Door may still be ajar. But no point in doing much. The EUSSR wants us in Hell, and to feel pain etc. Not friends. So truth is No Deal and WTO. No to False Friends. Keep up the Boycott of EUSSR.

[our haven] 21/10/2020 09:03

Looks like a load of tosh to me Bob.More about pushing for a second referendum to me.Be sad to see Scotland go if they voted for that and be isolated from the common language and laws of their immediate neighbours.

[bargainbob] 21/10/2020 08:22

THE Tories were last night facing a European backlash over a “dirty tricks” plan to ask Brussels to block Scotland’s membership of the EU as part of a war game strategy to scupper independence.

Neale Richmond, a Fine Gael TD and close political ally to former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, criticised the proposal and said Scotland would be a welcome new member.

“Scotland has been very good to Europe and we miss our Scottish friends dearly from the EU,” he said.

Richmond spoke out after a report, from political consultants, Hanbury, was leaked to Bloomberg, set out four main planks to stop independence following a poll last week which showed a record 58% of Scots now support independence.

The plans included:

Asking EU for help to stop Scotland joining
Keep delaying indyref2
Make a new constitutional offer to Scotland with more powers for Holyrood, possibly on immigration
Focus political attack on First Minister before 2021 poll
Richmond, who has been a fierce critic of Brexit, last month condemned Boris Johnson’s plan to override the EU withdrawal agreement and the Northern Ireland protocol which the Dublin politician said would put the peace process at risk.

Asked about what he thought of the Tory plan to get the EU involved in blocking Scotland’s future membership, Richmond said: “Any country in Europe can apply to join the EU and if they meet the Copenhagen criteria then they will be admitted.

“If Scotland was to vote for independence and in turn apply to join the EU then I see no reason why the EU would not accept them in due course.

“From an Irish point of view, having another English speaking, common law jurisdiction with a similar outlook in the EU would be a very welcome thing.”

READ MORE: No-Deal Brexit: Scotland reacts to news UK and EU trade talks are 'over'

He added: “I do not see how the UK can expect the EU to block such a membership application. I don’t think the EU would take kindly to such a request, things may have been different in 2014 but the UK has left the EU, they have supposedly taken back control.”

Responding to the leaked memo, the SNP MP John Nicolson tweeted: “Love the idea that Boris Johnson’s Brexit Tories think they’ve enough capital in the chancelleries of Europe to get pro-EU, post independence Scotland excluded. They’re delusional.”

Scotland’s Brexit Minister, Michael Russell, wrote: “What a surprise ... It is the Tory way to try and do politics. Pay oodles to ‘political consultants’ and try any trick or deceit rather than listen to what the people of Scotland are saying.

“Particularly love the assumption in the leaked London Tory dirty tricks plan against Scotland that the EU will be happy to meekly do the UK’s bidding even after the way they have been treated during Brexit.

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“Tory arrogant exceptionalism has no bounds.”

Pollsters believe rising support for independence is down to Johnson and the First Minister’s contrasting ways of handling the pandemic and their Brexit stances with Nicola Sturgeon’s views more in line with Scots after the country backed remain in 2016.

The 21-page memo was written by political consultants Hanbury, which was set up by Ameet Gill, former prime minister David Cameron’s one-time director of strategy, and Paul Stephenson, who was director of communications for pro-Brexit group Vote Leave.

One of the firm’s partners is James Kanagasooriam, who worked with the Scottish Conservatives on elections in 2016 and 2017.

A Cabinet Office spokesman declined to comment saying the document is not a government one.

The Scottish Conservatives were asked for a comment.

hxxps://www.thenational.scot/news/18809364.senior-figure-says-eu-wont-threaten-block-scotland-tory-trick-fails/

[alphorn] 21/10/2020 08:22

Good morning max.

I let you off lightly! I understand that they are also relocating their Slough facilities to the ex-lilly site. All this counted as new stuff in your article. Don't trust those media sites - giving half a story is being generous. ;))

[grahamite2] 21/10/2020 08:11

Today is Trafalgar Day, the day we crushed the French and made this country safe from invasion.

[xxxxxy] 21/10/2020 08:08

Tackling the virusBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: OCTOBER 21, 2020There are three government models for tackling the pandemic.The first is to give priority in all policy matters to curbing the spread and reducing the death rate from the virus through strong national action. The UK and most other governments tried this in the spring. The problem with this approach is that as soon as governments relax the virus spreads again, leading to pressures to shut down more of the economy for a second or successive times. The concentration of resources is difficult to sustain for long periods, leads to unwelcome deaths from other conditions that can go untreated or may be exacerbated by the policy, and merely delays the spread of the pandemic itself.The second is to see the problem of public health as one for local government. Patterns of infection and pressures on health services vary widely within the same country, so why not have a menu of possible actions for local government to adopt as they see fit? This is the US model, where State Governors led the responses to the virus, drawing on Federal resource and law where needed. The UK has also been moving more to this model in recent weeks with a three tier approach to lock down.The third is to trust people and free institutions within a democracy to make their own decisions about how and whether to protect themselves from possible transmission. Government sets out the dangers and passes on national and international knowledge about the threat and the spread. Government also provides support for those who wish to shield themselves, offering the ability to work from home, to have home deliveries and help with technology to switch more of their lives to on line. Governments can message that people need to keep their distance from possible infection, wash their hands and reduce their risk through their choice of travel and work patterns.Forming hybrids of these approaches is complex. Devolved and local governments often want a say but do not want to take full responsibility. They may wish to lock down, but see it as an opportunity to demand other policy initiatives and resources from central government. Some wish to play politics with it, to try to shift blame onto national government and cast them in a poor light.My advice is to keep working away on a wide range of actions that can tame the virus and make living with it less dangerous. The medical teams are now coming up with a wider range of drugs to treat the severe forms of the disease, and the death rate in intensive care is dropping. More can be expected from improved understanding of the disease and from trials of better treatments. More knowledge and communication about how the disease spreads should lead to more people opting to take precautions voluntarily, to reduce the risks to themselves, which should help.It is difficult to see a Test and Trace scheme which can guarantee success as democratic governments hope. Delays in testing and getting results, imperfect recoding of who was present in an infected location, false results from tests, and reluctance by some to self isolate owing to the difficulties it poses for their lives mean it is not the silver bullet some seek.

[mikemichael2] 21/10/2020 08:08

Bob, there is only about 7 million Scots, about a million of those live in England. You are TINY and insignificant, try and get used to it.

[geckotheglorious] 21/10/2020 08:05

GBH2

True, but despite being Skinny,the Chinese are hardly healthy. Their diet is atrocious - they do, after all, eat anything that moves!

[gbh2] 21/10/2020 07:57

Geko, Bubonic is more about social deprivation, where there's squalor there's Rats, for instance the Plague is alive and spreading in some areas of China and they have some of the skinniest people in the World.