Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[alphorn] 21/6/2019 10:44

Surprised little comment on Hammond's speech last night. The bits that I heard sounded eminently worth a listen.

Today's data - €urozone flat to slight positive bias.
UK borrowings rise more than expected with big negative revisions of prior data.

GBP under further pressure.

All good news depending upon your allocations/positions.

[pal44] 21/6/2019 10:42

also the Tory slim majority will vanish JC will be a very happy man today .

[cheshire pete] 21/6/2019 10:41

Doesn't have to do anything careful. The default is we leave 31/10/19. If Parliament looks like it will try and stop us leaving again, he can suspend Parliament. He will have no other choice, as Farage will keep up the pressure if he shows any sign of weakening, but I don't think that likely after the frustration of the 3 years wasted by May and her fellow remainers.

[maxk] 21/6/2019 10:40

They can deliver wto by october.

[careful] 21/6/2019 10:27

Worried about Boris once he gets to power.
The EU. will not move, and why should they.
The only people talking sense are the EU.


Things could go very badly very quickly for him, I wonder how he will react.
We change a football manager, full of optimism, yet the team he has is poor, they lose.
nothing has changed, personalities are not that important.

All this talk about him being an election winner.
I am worried, I will vote for him, no matter what.
but when things go bad, he may spin out of control.

Why do these idiots think they can deliver Brexit by 31st October?
how is he going to get out of that?

[xxxxxy] 21/6/2019 10:20

LEAVE and WTO

[xxxxxy] 21/6/2019 10:20

A sterile debate

By JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JUNE 21, 2019

The media and the Remain MPs are stuck in their own rhetorical canyon, ignoring the wider public and trying to prevent intelligent debate about the opportunities for the UK once liberated from the EU. The BBC is particularly bad. Either it does not invite someone on who wants to put a positive case for the decision of the voters on the EU, or it interrupts and hectors us around the tired and extreme language of the Remain campaign. Voters did not believe the idea of the cliff edge or the cataclysm, and rejected the forecasts of the economic damage Remain wrongly put out 3 years ago. Despite this the media and their chosen MPs and business interlocutors go on as if it were true and as if they did not lose the vote on his topic. The shambles of a Conservative leadership debate they created has been roundly condemned. The BBC has yet to explain its excessive puffing of Mr Stewart’s candidature who came well below three of the other candidates in each round he fought and was never going to get many MP votes given his absurd position on the EU issue. Why did the BBC suggest he was the likely opponent of Boris when he ended with just 27 votes out of a maximum 313.

I have never once heard a BBC interviewer ask a Remain MP or advocate why they want to giveaway £39bn we do not owe. It is a rare interview indeed which asks anyone about how we might spend all that money if we do not send it to the EU. The topic on our borders is always threats to EU citizens living in the UK where the government has always been clear they can stay. Rarely are we asked about what a globally fair UK migration policy would look like. Interviews are conducted on trade and tariffs without any understanding that the UK will decide how big a tariff to impose on imports, and with no knowledge that the UK has already set out a low tariff schedule for exit. There are no interviews with farmers to explore how much more of our food we can grow at home if tariffs are placed on to continental produce. There are no explorations of what joining the TPP free trade area might mean for the UK. We are told that any trade deal with the US would mean compulsory eating of chlorine washed chicken, as if we had to agree to its entry and then had to buy it! There is no mention of chlorine in our domestic water or chlorine washed EU salads.

Meanwhile the Leave majority just shouts back “Get on with it.” The media who seek to thwart us will lose more audience as a result of their craven servitude to the EU government. The more they shove out the Remain and EU spin lines, the more many voters think they do not speak for them. If they want to show they are better edited and disciplined than social media, they need to return to being fair and balanced, and to accept there are many sensible people saying there is a great future for the UK outside the EU, as we voted for.

[poikka] 21/6/2019 10:04

Oh hello, Minnie's had his nappy changed and ready for the day ahead.

[minerve 2] 21/6/2019 09:36

That's no way to handle a lady and if it was my GF/wife that MP would wake up in hospital with a wire cage around his jaw.

What a cowardly female bully.

[inaminute] 21/6/2019 09:13

He delegated because he didn't understand the issues

[shy tott] 21/6/2019 09:07

2039 Thanks max, I do try hard.

Talking about the climate protesters, the next ipcc climate emergency catastrophe conference is to be held this summer in London.


I hope the ritz, carlon and all the top London hotels have risk assessed and are adequately prepared to look after the thousands of climate experts. Demographic models predict that during the 3 week conference approximately 145 climate expert speakers will experience their first ever period.

[maxk] 21/6/2019 09:01

Boris finally exacts revenge on arch nemesis Michael Gove amid rumours of vote rigging in Tory leadership race





Camilla Tominey, associate editor
21 JUNE 2019 • 8:18AM



It was the moment Boris Johnson finally exacted his revenge on Michael Gove for the treachery that cost him the keys to Number 10 three years ago.

By knocking his former Vote Leave running mate out of the Tory leadership race by just two votes, Mr Johnson and his supporters got exactly what they wanted - a contest against Jeremy Hunt, the rival they have already conveniently nicknamed “Continuity May”.



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[gbh2] 21/6/2019 08:56

Filters been on since I read their first comment!

[poikka] 21/6/2019 08:45

When the EU eventually come to an agreement over who gets the top jobs, maybe the new President will look at the state of the EU economy, and the RoW for that matter, and consider that the best course would be to come to a REAL agreement with the UK.

But then, they're all tarred with the same brush; so they'll keep right on marching into oblivion.

[maxk] 21/6/2019 08:36

He did nothing wrong

Vid here:

[mikemichael2] 21/6/2019 08:35

Ship them out to China, i'm sure they would embrace their protests!!!!

[poikka] 21/6/2019 08:28

On the very day that the following was announced, some daft Greenpeace birds gate-crashed the Mansion House event. Lo and behold there are calls for resignation after a Tory MP grabbed one of them by the neck and marched her out. I'm with the MP.

"For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, Britain is obtaining more power from zero-carbon sources than fossil fuels."

Then, the other day, Greenpeace forced a BP rig to turn back in the North Sea creating even more pollution.

Just for the record, I support Friends of the Earth.

[maxk] 21/6/2019 08:12

Thats very cynical ST, even for the lloy thread.

[shy tott] 21/6/2019 08:08

Don't ask them for something different, they'd probably come up with misselling of current accounts due to not being warned several times in writing that if they go overdrawn they'd have to pay interest, or not warned that if they withdraw money from their account it will be debited by the amount withdrawn. That'd be £3.5 grand to each current account holder (or rather £3.4 grand to their solicitors who fill in the form for them and £100 for each holder).

[maxk] 21/6/2019 08:06

Confused? You will be!




Slack soars to $23bn in stellar market debut
British co-founder sitting on $600m fortune

James Dean, US Business Editor
June 21 2019, 12:01am,
The Times



Slack enjoyed a stellar debut on Wall Street yesterday as shares in the workplace messaging app opened nearly 50 per cent higher than expected, valuing the loss-making company at $23 billion.

The sharp rise in Slack’s shares means the technology firm’s British co-founder, Cal Henderson, now has a fortune of more than $600 million.

The Slack euphoria spread to the wider market. The S&P 500 closed at a new record high last night, also underpinned by the expectation that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in July. It finished 1 per cent, or 27.72 points, higher at 2,954.18 in New York.



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[maxk] 21/6/2019 08:02

More of the same (QE)


Why not try something different and helicopter some cash to the punters instead?