Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[xxxxxy] 23/2/2019 18:49

There will be singing in the streets of Cardiff tonight.

Brexit. Fight for it.

[minerve] 23/2/2019 17:57

Safari has caused me problems in the past.

[minerve] 23/2/2019 17:56

"Not the only thing you're rusty on Minnie!!"

Absolutely! LOL

[minerve] 23/2/2019 17:55

Thanks for that grahamite2. What are you using now out of interest?

[grahamite2] 23/2/2019 17:49

I have had to abandon Firefox completely.

Commercial programs are notorious for introducing new bells and whistles that are wholly unnecessary and often outright harmful - they do this to differentiate the brand in the hope of staying competitive. But I think Firefox has the same problem. Not for commercial reasons, of course, but I'm guessing there are countless people doing IT degrees who produce some tweak for Firefox and submit it as part of their coursework. The result is that Firefox has been getting more and more unwieldy, and therefore less and less functional, for quite some years.

[warranty] 23/2/2019 17:38

Not the only thing you're rusty on Minnie!!

[minerve] 23/2/2019 17:26

Just one thing: if you run Firefox with your laptop closed, using the external display, and go to ADVFN you will overheat the Macbook. It looks like Firefox isn't efficient at dealing with Java scripts and extended graphics modes at the same time; Java scripts are something ADVFN seems to be a spider's web of. I have had no problems with any other websites including Sharescope, just ADVFN.

Surely good coding is moving away from Java script now, no?

I get the impression ADVFN is being run on a shoestring.

I could be wrong. I am a little rusty on programming and graphics tech.

[minerve] 23/2/2019 17:17

I bought a new external display for my Macbook Air 2018. All very nice, I would thoroughly recommend.

Set-up costs about £2.5K with the RAID drive.

[bargainbob] 23/2/2019 16:43

Agree with Sir .john .
, you take back control for England .

[xxxxxy] 23/2/2019 16:41

A lack of ambition for Brexit

By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Listening to government Ministers presenting plans to ensure a smooth exit without signing the Withdrawal Agreement, I am struck by the lack of ambition and enthusiasm for Brexit. It is all presented in terms of damage limitation. Their wish is to ensure continuity. They exaggerate the worries and see none of the opportunities.

I am all in favour of Day One continuity of law, and voted for that in the EU Withdrawal Act. That should now all be behind us. There is no need for Parliament to make heavy weather of the Statutory Instrument changes, which are technical and not designed to change any policy or remove any legal protection. By now we should be debating the opportunities that running our own government and choosing our own laws can bring.

Lets take the case of medicines. The UK has a strong position in the global pharmaceutical sector. It accepted a European regulatory system whilst we were in the EU, but has quite enough critical mass in medicines to be able to run our own well respected system as we used to. If we became a prime global regulator other countries would wish to use our system, and we could drive world standards forward. There is money to be earned out of being a centre of excellence for regulation and for research and production.

Lets look at the opportunity to rebuild our fishing industry, as long as we become an independent coastal state this year before more damage is done to our fishing grounds by a common policy which allows too many industrial trawlers from abroad to take fish from our seas.

Lets propose changes to tariffs and agricultural support that nurtures a larger home industry in temperate food, as we used to have before we joined the Common Agricultural Policy. There are too many food miles from the continent for products we could more easily grow for ourselves.

Lets look at how we could improve the data rules and regulations to foster more tec based new businesses in a variety of sectors.

Above all, lets spend some time debating how we wish to spend all the money we will save once we have left. This economy needs a boost from lower tax rates and from more being spent on some core public services. Brexit gives us the chance to do just that.

[jrphoenixw2] 23/2/2019 15:57

hxxps://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/globalassets/documents/investors/2018/2018_lbg_fy_results.pdf

Page 5/62: 'Given the Group’s capital build of 210 basis points in the year, the Board has recommended a final ordinary dividend of 2.14pence per share, bringing the total ordinary dividend for the year to 3.21pence per share. This represents an increase of 5 per cent on 2017 and is in line with our progressive and sustainable ordinary dividend policy. In addition, the Board has announced its intention to implement a share buyback programme of up to £1.75billion, equivalent to 2.46pence per share, up 76per cent from last year.'

This is the only detail I can find on the 2019 BB scheme. Though I also read another comment in the results re: that the average px paid in the 2018 BB Programme; and I noticed that that was higher than the close on this Friday.

I read the DT article^ yesterday, which struck me as positive. Might be time to make a top-up, or maybe I'll wait for a day of BREXIT induced drama...

[stonedyou] 23/2/2019 15:04

That Government story about dirty diesel....



Has the Government got it wrong on 'dirty diesel' cars? Tests show some BMW, Mercedes and Vauxhall models produce almost ZERO harmful NOx emissions


•Germany motoring group ADAC tested 13 of the latest diesel cars on the road

•It found that all were significantly below the existing legal threshold for harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions

•In fact, a Mercedes-Benz diesel family car emitted no NOx during the test

•Large BMW estate and Vauxhall Astra also found to produce low traces of NOx

•Diesel car sales are in freefall since the VW emissions scandal fours years ago

•It has had a damaging impact on the automotive industry, especially in the UK




Some of the latest diesel cars on sale today produce no - or next-to-no - harmful

nitrogen oxides (NOx) associated with causing tens of thousands of premature

deaths in Britain each year, new independent research has revealed.

A Mercedes-Benz family saloon with a diesel engine tested on the road by German

motoring group ADAC was found to produce no harmful NOx pollution during

controlled measurements.

Meanwhile a BMW estate and Vauxhall Astra were recorded as emitting just one

miligram of NOx per kilometer - significantly below the current legal threshold of

168 mg/km.

The results bring into question the continued 'demonisation' of diesel by

ministers at home and around the world that have resulted in a monumental downturn

for the automotive industry, British job losses and manufacturers pulling

operations from the UK.



Not-so-dirty diesels: New independent tests of the latest diesel models has found that some emit zero or next-to-no harmful nitrogen oxides when being driven on the road

[maxk] 23/2/2019 13:46

Your second para graham would give the party whips terrible power over an mp.

[k38] 23/2/2019 13:42

In this case, there is no mistake !!With TM, as a remainer, decide to negotiate the.. Brexit, and negotiations are not going her way, and the 48% hijacking the 52% of the vote.. This is not only a mistake but dictatorship decision !! Brussels will never give up now !!

[grahamite2] 23/2/2019 13:39

I think you might be right, kmjs (247413). Not that I care about the Party's "investment" in the candidate - but I do care about electoral fraud in the form of standing on a certain platform and then acting completely differently.

There is precedent. MPs were once required by law to submit to a bye-election if they accepted an office of profit under the crown i.e. if they were made ministers. You could introduce a similar requirement for MPs that lost the Party whip.

Of course, honest MPs like Carswell and Reckless would do this anyway as a matter of common decency. But honesty and decency are in short supply in the Commons.

[maxk] 23/2/2019 13:29

Yes, but only when they make the wrong decision and vote the wrong way.

[k38] 23/2/2019 13:16

Alphorn I have no problems with digging. It's seems to me some voters or party are happy to cancel democracy when don't suit them.

[stonedyou] 23/2/2019 13:15

Alporno - The voice of reason.....if only.....Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!

[alphorn] 23/2/2019 13:07

k38 - when in a hole - stop digging.

[k38] 23/2/2019 13:02

When the 48% take over the 52% majority and turn round a democratic decision this is a rape to democracy

[keyno] 23/2/2019 12:52

OK, K38. Ta. Done my best to show how your example is flawed. Can't get my head round the idea of backstop at the best of times, let alone using a metaphor for a metaphor! Perhaps somebody else might care to comment.

[k38] 23/2/2019 12:51

I agree, usually, 90% , people vote for the party.

[k38] 23/2/2019 12:43

Kenyo
Think of the husband as a remainer, wife as Brexit (52%)... and bedroom as backstop.
Number of actors no matter in this case .

Do we have a rape (of democracy) in this case yes or no.