Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[alphorn] 22/2/2019 11:24

The four EU member states most affected by Brexit are Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.


………;……̷0;……R30;…that is most interesting. I would have thought it was the UK.

Do you offer investment advice too?

[ladeside] 22/2/2019 11:21

Another British company taken over by these pesky foreigners.

Yes, let's "take our country back" hee, hee, hee.



In other news it's great to see the Jewish people supporting Jeremy Corbyn and acknowledging that he and Labour are NOT the problem despite the rantings of some right wing infiltrators.

[k38] 22/2/2019 11:17

The four EU member states most affected by Brexit are Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. These countries export significantly more to the UK than they import from the UK, and Brexit would significantly increase the cost of trade between the UK and these countries. For Ireland, the re-introduction of the customs border would impose new costs and lost time to cross-border transactions. The Netherlands is the UK's second largest trading partner in terms of both volume and proportion of imports and exports. The UK is the most popular destination for Dutch investors, and the Netherlands is the second most popular destination for British investors. For Belgium, a large portion of its imports and exports are dependent on the UK. And lastly, Germany is the largest trading nation in the EU in terms of volume; Brexit would remove much of the benefits of the European Single Market for the Germany economy, especially for the automotive industry.

[patientcapital] 22/2/2019 11:14

"Mr Corbyn has told all the MPs who have quit this week - Chuka Umunna, Chris Leslie, Ann Coffey, Angela Smith, Gavin Shuker, Mike Gapes, Ms Berger and Mr Austin - to hold by-elections because they were elected on a Labour platform.But a tweet he sent in 2010 has resurfaced, showing him tell a constituent people vote for their MP - not a "party/ leader"." - SkyHmmm.

[polar fox] 22/2/2019 11:09

Just returned home to see breaking news that Ian Austin has quit Labour, after 35 years.

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 10:56

LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 10:54

someone could have evaluated you, you would have been put down decades' ago. You serve no purpose.


Straight out of the mouths of the Gestapo.

Say no more

[xxxxxy] 22/2/2019 10:51

Whatever. The EU has not made things easy for the UK. And it will be remembered. The EUSSR does not facilitate Civilization and has in effect become unfriendly. Next step is enemy. It will be remembered and especially so by 17 million and that block of purchasing power. The hurt and hell and the hate will be remembered. No more money for the gestapo and mafia mentality of the EUSSR.

LEAVE and WTO

[minerve] 22/2/2019 10:47

Jacko07

If someone could have evaluated you, you would have been put down decades' ago. You serve no purpose.

[minerve] 22/2/2019 10:46

jacko07

Poikka was quoting recent data. Do keep up. ;)

[minerve] 22/2/2019 10:44

Any stupid country can create billions of bum jobs on zero hour contracts, push everyone into higher education on debt, and then claim low unemployment figures.

Yeah, we have great employment, Mike Ashley is the most perfect of employers!

ROFLMAO!

[jacko07] 22/2/2019 10:43

You cannot take a snapshot in time of respective growth and unemployment in each country and use that as the reason to leave the EU.

So 40 years paying through the nose is a snapshot in time! Deluded or what!

[jacko07] 22/2/2019 10:40

Poikka..Remainers wearing their Rose tinted Europhile specs ignore all the facts about Europe's finances and unemployment. Truth of the matter is, the Brussels bureaucrats have their heads buried in the sand, Italy will be the undoing, it will make the 2008 crash look like a blip.

Minerve has the tinted specs, but is so short sighted he can't see far enough through the lenses to see the foundations crumbling within Italy who behind the scenes have agreed not to rock the boat. Just think what may happen if there is a banking crash in Italy while Barnier is holding a gun to our head.

As for Europe's other 27 countries, Germany and France dictate to the rest of them and most fall into line or else.

Democracy at it's best!

[minerve] 22/2/2019 10:36

Poikka

I wonder what the growth rate in the UK would have been if we hadn't had all that immigration of labour that we have had over the last decades?

You cannot take a snapshot in time of respective growth and unemployment in each country and use that as the reason to leave the EU.

If you have an argument with your wife do you take a snapshot that day and file for divorce in the morning? No, you don't. Most people have arguments and most people overcome their differences.

[tygarreg] 22/2/2019 10:29

Trouble is a lot of teachers have never left school. Never ventured outside the state nurse strings. Never taken a risk. Never worked with grown ups. They are bound to have a different view. It's not a criticism just a fact. We depend on them and they do a great job but always have the opinion that they deserve more of the public purse when most successful teachers are clearly very well off already. I watch with envy the ones I know, retired at under 60 and off trekking Nepal, China, India, cruising the seven seas and turning up at the golf club in their new SUV's. They do alright and deservedly so. But telling QT they live in poverty. Come on. Get real.

[1carus] 22/2/2019 10:21

Labour is broken.... with the omnishambles of brexit they have effectively been given the answers to an exam paper and have come away with a 'U'. You couldn't write it. Momentum is somewhat of an ironic name. The Torys are not necessarily the ship you would choose to sail in, but at least there is a chance she could be bailed out. Labour has to sink and be raised again.
May will come back with a modified deal that will placate the ERG. (It is in everyone's interest to have a soft a Brexit as possible) If that happens there is no reason why it should not get voted through unless your actions are simply to scupper Brexit. If that happens it will be elections of one form or another and/or a peoples vote which at that point will sadly demand a clear cut Brexit.(There are more chimps than chimp masters and the vote is a proportional representation vote)

[poikka] 22/2/2019 09:59

General unemployment
Germany 4%
France 10%
Spain 17%
Portugal 10%
Italy 12%
UK 5%

Missed out French youth unemployment earlier of 20%.

Do you get the picture now, Minerve?

[grahamite2] 22/2/2019 09:58

Well said Tygarreg. I'm sick of hearing about the bloody teachers and how hard done by they are.

[poikka] 22/2/2019 09:57

Me - "That's the result of sleepwalking into a currency that only suited Germany."

Minerve - "Really. Evidence and facts please - but not from Brexit propaganda."

Can't believe you wrote that. I first said many, many years ago that it was a crazy idea for so many disparate economies to be tied to a single currency - and so it has proved, to those who can see.

After decades of this wonderful experiment, we have:-

Youth unemployment

Germany 6%

Spain 30%

Portugal 20%

Italy 30%

Wonder what Minerve would be saying if we had those figures in the UK (12%), and that's after large movement of labour from the poorer countries to the richer - forced movement of labour out of your home country!

[aceuk] 22/2/2019 09:56

m4rtinu

Teachers just like most other State employees in this country are well paid compared to many in most areas - average pay-rates are well skewed by the near 25% of the population who live and work in Greater London. Obviously the rest of the south-east and a couple of our other biggest cities increase that. Obviously in those areas most people are poor because of the costs associated with just being there …. but for many it is a matter of choice.


A guy running a company in our industry (in our area - North Wales) has just run out of money and gone bump after many years trying. He has just re-located to London and set up as a catering engineer - the streets are paved with gold?

[jacko07] 22/2/2019 09:53

There we go then. There is your answer. LOL

Minnie..The lady doth protest too much.

Best you just keep stumm, your credibility on this BB is zero.

[minerve] 22/2/2019 09:52

jacko07

I don't short, I don't spread bet and I don't use CFDs. I don't need to in order to make money and I have my doubts on whether non-professionals should have access to these things.

I don't know why you would think I would ever get involved with Purple Bricks. The estate agent that really isn't an estate agent IMO. LOL Just another internet portal with idiots prepared to throw plenty of capital at it. Somebody is bound to lose.

You aren't very transparent on your trades. Go over to the Kier thread and you will find I was very transparent on my trades there. Buying stock at well below £4.00 before Christmas and even having the audacity to take-up my full rights when the share price was below the issue price. I knew there was value at those prices. It is now over £5 and so, along with my house builders, I have had a very good 3/4 months.

Some of my stocks yield 10%. Makes Lloyds look a bit pedestrian. Each to their own though.

[tygarreg] 22/2/2019 09:44

She said in poverty! Maybe we have different ideas of what is poverty. Starting pay in any job is the lowest you ever get so why use that to describe the average teacher? If they remain on lowest grade it is only their fault. There are head of years, head of dept etc etc and they even have head of dept in small primary schools. The pensions are massively subsidised by the rest of us. The number who have retired early to enjoy those pensions is frankly obscene. They do a great job and maybe they are under average pay in the south east but outside the capital they are between the middle and the top of the food chain.

[maxk] 22/2/2019 09:39

Ian Austin MP quits 'broken' Labour Party after becoming 'ashamed' of Jeremy Corbyn