Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[diku] 26/6/2020 14:32

If yesterday's beach situation is anything to go by wait when the pubs, restaurants, clubs open...free for all...if you paying people to stay home then those beach should have never opened...

[minerve 2] 26/6/2020 14:31

"Extremely interesting article from the UK Defence Journal, thank you, Gecko."

Well, it is there all the time if you want to read it. It doesn't go anywhere. LOL

[grahamite2] 26/6/2020 14:26

Extremely interesting article from the UK Defence Journal, thank you, Gecko.

[geckotheglorious] 26/6/2020 13:44

Alphorn
Post 308465

"How it spent it nobody (particularly this thread) cares"

Rubbish. Read the BAE thread. Some of us do.



"Wonderful aircraft carriers without planes"

Another urban legend.

”Myths surrounding the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers”
No aircraft, no escorts, no kettles. How much truth can be found in the many myths surrounding HMS Queen Elizabeth and her sister HMS Prince of Wales?
‘The carriers don’t have any aircraft’

This one even gets repeated by politicians, many of you will be aware of our Twitter campaign to correct this claim across the political spectrum.
Claims the carrier do not have any aircraft are simply incorrect.

The first jets touched down in 2018.

In 2023, the UK will have 42 F-35 aircraft, with 24 being front-line fighters and the remaining 18 will be used for training (at least 5 on the OCU), be in reserve or in maintenance.

Nuclear power would have been better’.

Cost is single-handedly the most prohibitive reason the Queen Elizabeth class are not nuclear powered. More conservative estimates say a reactor adds 280% to the lifetime costs of a ship. Aircraft carriers typically only carry a month’s worth of aviation fuel, including US and French nuclear vessels, so need to be refuelled monthly anyway. There’s no real operational advantage to having the vessels nuclear powered, especially when weighed against the massive increase in costs.

[alphorn] 26/6/2020 13:30

mm2 - last week I switched some positions to bullish sterling after a very long time bearish. € 1.10 could be a floor and I remain confident of a deal in the next few months.

[grahamite2] 26/6/2020 13:23

#308470 indeed you didn't, Alphorn, but Minerve did.

[alphorn] 26/6/2020 13:23

G2 - to be just as precise, let us say 'Brexit related'.

[grahamite2] 26/6/2020 13:22

To be precise, Alphorn, he thought the driving force would be the failure to implement Brexit, not Brexit itself.

[alphorn] 26/6/2020 13:20

G2 - never said is was - it was incompetence and incredibly poor planning. Ring any bells?

[alphorn] 26/6/2020 13:19

One of the posters on here was talking at length about civil unrest in the UK on the horizon. The driving force, he believed, was Brexit.

It didn't happen but maybe it is still on the horizon - but for a completely different reason?

'Despite threats to RE-LOCKDOWN whole areas a day after packed seasides turned into hotbeds of violence'. Plus centres of violence in London where the police were chased away. 4th July pubs reopen......... What is the reason???

[grahamite2] 26/6/2020 13:18

The aircraft carrier fiasco is not in any way connected with Brexit. Gordon Brown must carry the can.

[sikhthetech] 26/6/2020 13:16

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"If no deal on BREXIT this will touch new low "

agree... and there seems to be an increasing risk of a no deal brexit. Boris was keen on a No deal before the GE so I wouldn't be surprised if he goes down that route.

Although the bigger risks are Trump & China...

[alphorn] 26/6/2020 13:13

Won what exactly? Still the mystery parcel.

[gbh2] 26/6/2020 13:08

Struggling even on a good day :(

[alphorn] 26/6/2020 12:52

M2 - you shouldn't worry as the UK has spent more than it's budget share on NATO.

How it spent it nobody (particularly this thread) cares.

Wonderful aircraft carriers without planes, they can join the new destroyer moored up in port for the past 4-5 years. After 10 hours at sea it needs a major engine refit.

Captain Haddock's coracle fitted with a Gatling gun would be more dangerous to the enemy. Perhaps the same enemy that is funding the West's voting systems?

[minerve 2] 26/6/2020 12:38

"And it further warned the carriers' new Crowsnest airborne radar system - which forms a crucial part of its defences - was running 18 months late, further diminishing its capabilities during its first two years."

Wonderful.

"incoming missile................too late!" BOOM!


LOL!

[minerve 2] 26/6/2020 12:37

"It also said the Navy had just one supply ship able to keep the carriers stocked with food and ammunition while on operations."

Best keep the carriers close together then, eh?

LOL