Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[alphorn] 26/11/2019 12:49

G2 - really. I celebrate success as by now you should know. You win some and then win some more.
I shall leave you to hero worship Trump.

edit: On a more serious note if you talk of trade negotiations being 'battles' then thank goodness you have nothing to do with them.

[grahamite2] 26/11/2019 12:45

Alphorn's remarks illustrate the truth of Sun Tzu's saying that every battle is won before it is even fought. He, and the civil servants who think like him, go in expecting to lose and therefore they will lose. Someone like Donald Trump, on the other hand, goes in expecting to win and therefore will win.

[alphorn] 26/11/2019 12:38

Max - surely you understand that any trade agreement has more than one party. Negotiating the Withdrawal agreement which has yet to be in a position to be implemented is the easy part. Negotiating and approving trade deals is another matter which is why getting them negotiated and approved by the end of next year is for the birds. Surely you grasp that? ;)

[bargainbob] 26/11/2019 12:33

Make EU pay 60 billion for fishing rights .

[guss] 26/11/2019 12:20

It’s a race.
Who can bankrupt the country the quickest?

How much of JC’s wish list will he be able to implement before he’s kicked out and will he go for Brexit or Remain?

How much damage will Boris do before he is kicked out and is he a Soft or hard Brexiter?

[grahamite2] 26/11/2019 12:16

bbalanjones 26 Nov '19 - 10:53 - 283943 of 283947

My degree was based on hand written papers with no scope for cheating and no need for software to identify cheating. We just need to go back to that system.

Continuous assessment of any kind is wholly unsatisfactory. Examinations are the only reliable way.

[maxk] 26/11/2019 12:16

Alp.

You have missed the point.

[alphorn] 26/11/2019 12:14

G2 - how, btw are the fairies doing your garden?

[alphorn] 26/11/2019 12:14

Max - typical Telegraph; emotions and more emotions. If any agricultural or fishing licences are purchased by non residents then they are the owners of those rights.
Same for shares, companies, property and the like.
If anyone now suggests that only residents that date back to William the Conqueror can own rights/property then they really have lost it. William btw was Norman. ;)

[grahamite2] 26/11/2019 12:12

Alphorn 26 Nov '19 - 10:53 - 283942 of 283946
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G2 - you are proposing that we (you) go for the untried and experiment with the country.
I look forward to it, see what happens. Better than any soap.

We prospered outside the EU for many centuries. It is being in the EU that is relatively untried and experimental.

[maxk] 26/11/2019 12:05

If the comments are anything to go by for this article. Boris had better not try and throw the fishes under a bus.




Brussels to hit Britain with fishing ultimatum the day after Brexit





James Crisp, brussels correspondent
25 NOVEMBER 2019 • 3:21PM



Brussels plans to hit Britain with a demand for access to UK fishing waters the day after Brexit, it has emerged.

Sources said the plan was to make EU access to British waters a condition for any trade deal and to make the demand public on, or as close as possible, to February 1, if Boris Johnson wins a majority in the general election.

“That will be the day that reality hits home,” one EU diplomat told The Telegraph.

The European Commission began work on Monday on drawing up internal mandates for the trade negotiations that will begin once Britain leaves the EU on January 31, 2020.

British officials insist that Britain will be taking back control of its fishing waters, which are currently...



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[alphorn] 26/11/2019 11:22

DrB - the issue is that when rates are so low that even a 'moderate' increase is a huge increase in itself. Big problems for many.
eg a 2% increase against 8% is peanuts but a 2% against 2% is 100%.

A coiled spring that nobody knows how to let out slowly.

[dr biotech] 26/11/2019 11:13

Isn’t moderate inflation the final answer to debt?

I’m not saying it’s a good fix, but the least worst.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 26/11/2019 10:55

Millionaire Minerve has a landlord?

What?

Surely he'd own his own property to avoid nasty landlords???

[bbalanjones] 26/11/2019 10:53

stonedyou: I agree that a strong case can be made for changes to the 'one size fits all' Degree Qualification that some Universities currently offer. Cheating has been around for years, however software is available for identifying such attempts with increasing accuracy. Any marking tutor worth her/his salt keeps very up to date with appropriate accuracy of References and Biblio's used in Scripts as part of the Grading process. The vast majority of Degree programmes really are 'hard work' - in Honours programmes the final Grade awarded reflects this.

[maxk] 26/11/2019 10:47

Elder statesmen shurely?

[grahamite2] 26/11/2019 10:33

Indeed m5 and the same goes for John Major and the rest of the decrepit old crocks wheeled out for these purposes.

[m5] 26/11/2019 10:25

No one cares what MH or TB says. They are two walking egos, yesterdays men, and their intervention will have the opposite effect of what is intended, but they are "too bright" to see that. Please gents carry on sticking your bib in.

[1carus] 26/11/2019 10:23

Min, stats are very interesting. Most conservative voting people as we know are older, fortunately degrees where not simply handed out for those guys and most were socially steered,by labour, into industries to rebuild the UK after the war that bought many of our freedoms today. Education is no measure of intellect, which is lucky for labour as their education minister left school at 16 and got a diploma or something in sign language. She should of course be a conservative supporter as she is clearly thick by your measure.

[bbalanjones] 26/11/2019 10:04

Tarzan . . . At the same time, we have Lord Heseltine's extraordinary intervention.

He lost the Conservative Party whip earlier this year after he said he would vote Lib Dem, so in many ways maybe this wouldn’t be surprising.

But this is a general election, this is about who is going to run the country, and he is saying this morning that he doesn’t want to support a party that in his view - by pursuing Brexit - will make the country poorer and will make it less influential across the world.

Hear . . . . Hear . . . Hear. (From the Government Benches of Course.)