Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[longwell] 30/7/2019 22:50

Stays low will mop up shares from divi re invested.

[xxxxxy] 30/7/2019 22:26

Rewilding. Perhaps a consideration after Brexit as we change directions and usage of resources, hopefully more sensitive and ethical for all. It will require management of land - a sort of farming but with new considerations.

'Rewilding is the large-scale restoration of ecosystems where nature can take care of itself. It seeks to reinstate natural processes and, where appropriate, missing species – allowing them to shape the landscape and the habitats within.

Rewilding encourages a balance between people and the rest of nature where each can thrive. It provides opportunities for communities to diversify and create nature-based economies; for living systems to provide the ecological functions on which we all depend; and for people to re-connect with wild nature.'




So Brexit is complicated and requires Vision

[xxxxxy] 30/7/2019 22:21

'Whatever happens, however, the UK is going to be faced with some very crucial economic problems, regardless of the form that Brexit finally takes. For a start, the proportion of our national income which we invest in our future every year is far lower than it is almost anywhere else in the world. Furthermore, what we do spend money on tends not to be the most productive forms of investment – i.e. those in industry which produce big increases in output per hour. This is why productivity increases have stalled and living standards are static. We have deindustrialised on a scale unmatched by any advanced economy. Even as late as 1970, almost a third of our GDP came from manufacturing. Now it is less than 10% and still falling. As a result, we have lost millions of good jobs; there is a huge disparity between the prosperity of London and our former industrial heartlands in Wales, the Midlands and the North of England; and we have missed out on the productivity increases which are much easier to achieve in manufacturing than they are in services. In addition, because we now make so little, we do not have enough to sell to the rest of the world to pay for our imports. As a result, we have a balance of payments deficit every year averaging close to £100 billion. This may allow us to have a living standard 4% or 5% higher than we are actually earning, but only by borrowing money from abroad and selling off masses of UK assets to foreign owners. As a consequence, we have lost control of swathes of our economy while at the same time, both as a nation – through our government – and as individuals, we are getting deeper and deeper into debt. These imbalances all matter hugely. The slow growth which is the result means that most of the population are no better off now than they were ten years ago, with little prospect of any improvement as far ahead as we can see. Our political class is drifting into more and more disrepute. We are falling further and further behind other countries. Our politics are getting more and more fractured as the country becomes increasingly deeply divided – both between the regions, the generations and socio-economic groups. What can we do about all these problems? My new book, Economic Growth post Brexit: How the UK should take on the World, published by Bite-Sized Books and available on Amazon and elsewhere, tackles these issues head-on. Here is what we need to do. We need to change our primary economic goal away from chasing inflation down to 2% and to set ourselves a growth target instead. Inflation is largely tamed and the dire consequences of slow growth are a much bigger risk now than slightly more rapid price rises. To get the growth rate up, we need to invest much more in technology, mechanisation and power, which are the main drivers of productivity increases. To do this we need to make it a lot more profitable than it is now to invest in industry in the UK, by making sure that we have a sufficiently competitive exchange rate on a sustained basis as key government and Bank of England policies. To rebalance our economy, we need to get manufacturing back to being around 15% of our national income – not as high as the 20% it is in countries like Germany, Switzerland and Japan, because we are good enough at services to close some of the gap between them and us; but not all of it, because services on their own are too difficult to sell abroad in sufficient quantity. We will never pay our way in the world, or keep up with other countries, or get our living standards up in any other way than manufacturing more goods and selling them all over the world. A huge problem about the way that the Brexit negotiations have been handled is that, ever since the 2016 EU referendum, they have distracted us from thinking about almost anything other than our involvement with the EU. If we are going to make a success of Brexit, this is going to have to change. We need to start thinking hard about how we are going to keep up with the rest of the world by getting the UK growth rate up to somewhere near the 3.5% per annum world average. This is a massive challenge but maybe the national rethink which Brexit ought to be producing will make it happen. It very badly needs to do so.'

[cm44] 30/7/2019 22:07

Rubicon 're216,
How about a well trained Eagle Owl? Lol

[shy tott] 30/7/2019 21:49

OH, Forgot that real potent killer - a spinkle of salt. The stuff they dissolve in water and pump into your viens when you arrive in hospital. Add a load of sugar to the salt water and it becomes a power health isotonic drink.

[maxk] 30/7/2019 21:39

The Danes aint too happy either bob ... rasher futures could take a real hit (uk no1 market)

[shy tott] 30/7/2019 21:38

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Don't blame you bb, everyone who eats welsh lamb is dead within a few minutes. Add in all the deaths from gm food, fat, carbs, butter, marge, potatoes, meat, milk, polyunsturated something or other, bread, vitamin tabs, fast food, slow food, smoked food, fried food, and it's a wonder we live longer than ever before.

[maxk] 30/7/2019 21:36

My daught owned one up to this year, now has a (free-ish) company car.

Best car ever she says.

Sounds like a good deal.



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[bargainbob] 30/7/2019 21:34

Was over in The Netherlands this year and they are very worried . The UK is there biggest market for food , flowers and seeds.

[corby3] 30/7/2019 21:29

Works both ways, we can put a 40% tariff on Mercs, Audi's French Wine and Cheese. Just been offered a great deal on a Nissan Quashqai, brand new on the road for £20k, Metallic paint, Air con, 5 year warranty free services, 1 Years's Road tax.

I am thinking it over, anyone on here have one.

[bargainbob] 30/7/2019 21:17

Would not touch welsh lamb with a barge pole , still fallout from Chernobyl.



For years after it , sheep from Wales got sent to a testing lab south of Glasgow to monitor the radiation . Nearly a decade later there was still an impact.

"Prof Glyn O Phillips said it was possible the effects of Chernobyl could be felt in Wales for generations to come"

[excell1] 30/7/2019 21:03

We get the F~~k out of that EU cesspit.

[maxk] 30/7/2019 20:54

€uro's put a 40% tariff on english/welsh/scottish/NI lamb.


What do you think happens next?

[minerve 2] 30/7/2019 20:43

We don't really need a crowd to have a party
Just a funky beat, and you to get it started and oh
We'll dance the night away
We're having big fun
And the party's just begun, yeah
We're having big fun..

[crossing_the_rubicon] 30/7/2019 20:11

@Mike,

Did you ever win the ferrari?
I always used to buy a ticket for an extravagant flutter when ever in transit :)

[maxk] 30/7/2019 20:10

Not to mention remainer lambs to the slaughter..

[crossing_the_rubicon] 30/7/2019 20:09

"mikemichael230 Jul '19 - 16:18 - 266184 of 266215
I do like a nice lamb chop, but bloody expensive"

Strathvale Farm Scotch Lamb Loin Chops
400g Looks cheap to me.
Liddle piddle.

Sainsbury's Lamb Chops 340g £4.25
hxxps://www.sainsburys.co.uk/

There's also lamb rustling ;)

[grahamite2] 30/7/2019 19:48

Japan is not trying to join China.
New Zealand is not trying to join Australia.
Canada is not trying to join America.

And we are returning to where we always should have been, a strong independent friend of Europe.

[mikemichael2] 30/7/2019 19:19

Stopped over in Dubai many times, on my way to the far east and Cape town, great place for a few days.

[grahamite2] 30/7/2019 19:13

Poikka - I'll tell you what is curious, you got one upvote for each of your 3 identical posts. What's that all about?!

[poikka] 30/7/2019 19:08

Too much negativity on this board and throughout the UK. Too many wasters and too many welfare dependant.

Boris is a breath of fresh air keen to drag this country out of the bog that it's floundering in. And yet, unbelievably, there are naysayers who would rather we went back to the old fuddy-duddy statesmen and women of yesterday.

They would rather we sank ourselves into the warm welcoming embrace of the rip-your-heart-out EU - an organisation steadily regulating itself into dreamland - than the go for it enterprising ASEAN-type culture. Or a Dubai style culture (much of it unpleasant, admittedly), but it shows what can be done.

Where there's a will...Boris has the vision and energy and deserves our full support.

[poikka] 30/7/2019 19:08

Too much negativity on this board and throughout the UK. Too many wasters and too many welfare dependant.

Boris is a breath of fresh air keen to drag this country out of the bog that it's floundering in. And yet, unbelievably, there are naysayers who would rather we went back to the old fuddy-duddy statesmen and women of yesterday.

They would rather we sank ourselves into the warm welcoming embrace of the rip-your-heart-out EU - an organisation steadily regulating itself into dreamland - than the go for it enterprising ASEAN-type culture. Or a Dubai style culture (much of it unpleasant, admittedly), but it shows what can be done.

Where there's a will...Boris has the vision and energy and deserves our full support.