Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[mikemichael2] 05/2/2020 11:28

'We have bigger fish to fry.'

Is that Scottish fish,EU fish, or our fish?

[pierre oreilly] 05/2/2020 11:25

I doubt the ft is for the educated, more for the polytechnic types.

[minerve 2] 05/2/2020 10:59

FT is a Remain paper because it is one for the educated and not the brainwashed.

I doubt Cheshire Pete could read most articles in the FT and understand them.

[morrisseysteve] 05/2/2020 10:55

FT is pro Conservative and anti Labour (and very anti Corbyn). I read it every day. Agreed it's Remain though

[gotnorolex] 05/2/2020 10:51

Someone ought to tell the Scott's the EU club has up front admission fees, and strict entry 'Copenhagen criteria' to follow.
Scotland spends 20% more per head on public services than England, courtesy Mr Barnett........What will Missure Barnier say?
Famous Scottish last words! "I find it deeply offensive to be asked to pay"

[gbh2] 05/2/2020 10:27

Odd that we've yet to hear of anyone that's had it and recovered.

[smartypants] 05/2/2020 10:26

Good news if you are a rat with a tickly cough
Not so good if you are locked on a cruise ship and running out of lemons!

Oil surges on news of coronavirus vaccine

Oil extended gains on Wednesday as researchers revealed they are on track to finding an antiviral drug for the novel coronavirus that has been rattled both equity and commodity markets in recent weeks.

Fears of dampened demand seemed to subside after scientists at Imperial College London said they managed to reduce normal vaccine development time from "two to three years to just 14 days."


Dow jumps 300 pts premarket on vaccine news .
The Dow Jones Industrial Average index gained 300 points in premarket on Wednesday after it was reported that the United Kingdom researchers of the coronavirus vaccine made a "significant breakthrough," pointing out that animal testing of the vaccine will begin next week.


UK makes 'breakthrough' in finding coronavirus vaccine.
The researcher leading United Kingdom's efforts to find an effective coronavirus vaccine said on Wednesday his team has made a "significant breakthrough" by reducing normal development time from "two to three years to just 14 days."

Professor Robin Shattock, a researcher at Imperial College London, pointed out that he is at the stage of testing the vaccine on animals as early as next week, noting that studies in humans could begin in the summer provided that enough funding is secured.


Can you hold on till the summer...we are having a whip round?
I suggest you all chip in...
I read that it is only fatal to those over 60!!

[mitchy] 05/2/2020 10:15

I may be speaking to soon but the latest data shows only 1 death from corona yesterday. 63 new cases but only 1 death suggests they've got it licked.

[mr.elbee] 05/2/2020 09:55

good call , and it is,for me, a reason to live longer!

[m5] 05/2/2020 09:37

I hope you get your Independence Bob. If I was Boris its the one of the first things I would have said, have another referendum. We have bigger fish to fry.

[cheshire pete] 05/2/2020 09:31

FT pro-EU / remain lefty paper CTR.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 05/2/2020 09:13

The European Union figure charged with bidding farewell to the U.K. wished her
British counterpart “good riddance” instead of “good luck,” the Financial Times reports. The comment was a genuine linguistic mistake,the newspaper says, and was taken in good humor by the outgoing U.K. ambassador, Sir Tim Barrow.


"How can you make such a linguistic mistake?

Good riddance is completely different to good luck in nearly all languages!!!!!"

[patientcapital] 05/2/2020 08:34

They could each take a turn. Only fair.

[utrickytrees] 05/2/2020 08:29

More tail wagging the dog from the EU, make the paddy's & Jocks speak French or German. Personally I hate hearing English annihilated by the pigeon english turnip picking heathens its embarrassing.

[fovargue] 05/2/2020 08:28

PPI has stopped, there's been some buyback, HMG no longer has a stake, the threat of Corbyn getting into No.10 has passed - surely the potential here has got to be higher than 65p ? 40% of the stock was sold to institutions for 71p when the clouds were greyer than they are now.

Regardless, I'm in for the long haul. I'm looking for a bit of extra income in retirement, so I'll be sitting tight whatever happens to the share price

[pierre oreilly] 05/2/2020 08:16

If Scotland joined the EU, they could adopt Scottish English. That would get the simultaneous translators to earn their money!

[maxk] 05/2/2020 08:09

EfOff would be better!

[maxk] 05/2/2020 08:08

Good one bob (#292006) :-))

[bargainbob] 05/2/2020 08:05

Etfa is the preffered route imho.

[utrickytrees] 05/2/2020 07:54

K38, the Nationalists have taken the EU's warm words at face value and actually think that in the event if a 2nd ref & they win it that they're then going to be able to finance & agree a devolution agreement with the UK and be accepted into the EU, Ha ha ha naivety in the extreme,

[bargainbob] 05/2/2020 07:54

Irish English replaces British English in EUFollowing the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union at the end of January, the EU has announced that Irish English will replace British English as the union’s primary working language.

The change, effective immediately, was announced on Monday by European Commission president Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen, who says the unity of the 27 remaining countries is “grand” despite Brexit and the years of the UK “foostering about.”

“The British are just after leaving, and fair play to them for getting what they wanted,” she said. “They’ve been part of this union for donkey’s years, so I amn’t saying that we won’t miss them.”

“But we’ll be needing an English that’s more reflective of what now be our biggest English-speaking country, the Republic of Ireland,” she continued. “Starting today, all of yous will switch to Hiberno-English for all meetings and the drafting of documents, translations, and the like.”

Commission interpreter Gamini Saol says that for her, switching to Irish English won’t be much trouble as she spent six months working at a pub in Limerick.

“It’s just a question of reordering sentences, adding a few words, so it is,” she said. “This is going to be gas.”

The difference can be seen in a statement that was published on the EU homepage in late January, which referred to the UK leader as “Prime Minister Boris Johnson,” but by Feb.1 the words had been changed to “your man.”

[bargainbob] 05/2/2020 07:39

K38

I will return it back to you if Scotland leaves the Uk . The UK would lose .

Its second largest economy

Its second largest national population

Lose the ability to have Nuclear weapons and lose miltary powers

Would be less relevant in the UN

Inward looking

The UK got the same sinking feeling as the EU k38 . The ironic thing is every reason you want out of the EU . Scotland wants out of the UK .The difference is one does not want to isolate and is more internationalist in outlook.