Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[mitchy] 01/7/2020 10:17

Dorset, where I live , has gone 16 days without a virus death and are recording only 1 new case a day. Health experts are saying we should still be vigilant but basically WE ARE OVER THE VIRUS !

[careful] 01/7/2020 09:55

Just for once Theresa May got it right.
she knows how defence matters are handled and knows first hand the limitations of the man just about to be given the top job.

It is a political appointment, probably by Lord Dominic Cummings, our scruffy unelected dictator,accountable to no one.

Boris keeps pumping out his optimistic bile, but over the next 2 years he will have to deliver or he will be dead meat.
Civil unrest will be the theme from now on.

I voted for him, no choice, but he is not up to the job.
No grasp of detail, quite weak when under pressure.
He is no Thatcher and no Churchill.

How different the political landscape will be if Trump gets kicked out in November.

[poikka] 01/7/2020 09:18

The reason it got so many upticks is because so many agreed with it.

[geckotheglorious] 01/7/2020 09:14

Alphorn
Post 308880
"#878. Now that must be worth some upticks. Pathetic"

Only thing pathetic around here is the whingebag still moaning about Leave beating Remain convincingly, 4 years ago!

[grahamite2] 01/7/2020 08:29

Good point about the person sitting next to the old bag. But no surprise. She came out in her true colours a long time ago.

[xxxxxy] 01/7/2020 08:26

The Prime Minister's building plansBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: JULY 1, 2020The Prime Minister set out a vision of hope and optimism yesterday about economic recovery. He also detailed some £5bn of accelerated and useful public sector investment in better school and FE buildings, road improvements, health buildings and new schools. This is welcome.We also need to recognise that even allowing for the temporary sharp fall in output the UK economy is still a £2 trillion economy. A recovery rests heavily on the positive response of the private sector . Better roads and communications help. Good quality education and plenty of educational opportunity for all is crucial.The big numbers of state support rest in the furlough scheme and the 8 million people currently helped by it. Success in recovery will come from finding the right ways to get the companies that employ them off state support, and restoring as many of those jobs as possible. For those who do lose their jobs from their current employers, we need maximum job opportunities to speed new openings for those made redundant.Here the challenge is to think through what the future offers for shops, cafes, restaurants and a range of services on our High Streets. Maximum flexibility is needed for landlords and tenants to adjust their use of buildings to new ventures or socially distanced versions of old activities. There needs to be many strands to generating more new jobs. These can come from the digital revolution, from the artificial intelligence reforms and from the onward march of the robots. They can come from growing more of our own food, catching and processing more of our own fish, growing more of our own timbers , generating more of our own power and all the other openings identified.Yesterday the Environment and Housing Secretary set out proposals to make it easier to flex the use of commercial buildings with all this in mind.We do need education to equip young people for the opportunities of the digital world. We are entering an era of rapid change, where the transition to a digital and on line economy has just been out into fast forward by the arrival of home working for the many.

[grahamite2] 01/7/2020 08:23

Joe Say - The Daily Telegraph aka Guardian II is, clearly!

No normal person though.

[poikka] 01/7/2020 08:14

And who's that tucked-in beside her - well, socially distant.

[joe say] 01/7/2020 07:59

Whose going to listen to that loser?

[gaffer73] 01/7/2020 07:52

My thoughts exactly scruff.

[maxk] 01/7/2020 07:42

Dracula's daughter has risen from the grave...




Theresa May says David Frost has 'no proven expertise' in security, in attack on Whitehall shake-up



By
Anna Mikhailova,
DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
30 June 2020 • 5:56pm







David Frost has "no proven expertise in national security", Theresa May has said in a blistering attack on Number 10’s Whitehall shake-up.

The former Prime Minister made her most adversarial appearance in the Commons since she became a backbencher, criticising the government’s decision to remove its most senior civil servant.

Mr Frost, currently the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator, will replace Sir Mark Sedwill as National Security Adviser - the first political appointee to the role since its creation in 2010.

Speaking in the Commons, Mrs May, who appointed Sir Mark to the role, described the “expert independent advice” she received from national security advisers in the nine years she spent on the national security council, first as Home Secretary then as Prime Minister....

[jl5006] 30/6/2020 22:40

All I read about is rules.
You can u cant
And yet you cant understand that rules such as allowing kids to play in the playground with kids they used to know and cherish are to be denied by ppl who have no kids no understanding. Kids should not suffer because uninformed didactics insist.
I thought that was a USSR idea - but free is no longer free - just our libs

[jl5006] 30/6/2020 22:33

Sadly the future is just waste of time. We need to die now,
C 19 is like the plague - really just death - or just an infection.
Most have been brainwashed.
And they think they can keep their jobs!!

[smartypants] 30/6/2020 22:31

UK proposal on financial services unacceptable.

"trying to keep single market benefits without fulfilling any obligations"..??
I find that hard to believe..that sounds like - having your cake and eating it!

The United Kingdom's propositions regarding the regulation of financial services are unacceptable, European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier stated on Tuesday.

Speaking at the Eurofi General Assembly, the official warned that London is trying to keep single market benefits without fulfilling any obligations, asserting that its proposals would "severely limit the EU's regulatory and decision-taking autonomy."

"The EU must ensure that important risks to our financial stability are managed within the framework of our Single Market ecosystem of legislation, supervision and jurisdiction," Barnier said, noting that the bloc and the UK will be two separate markets with two jurisdictions.

[scruff1] 30/6/2020 22:29

What makes me laugh is how they write such headlines as if they are surprised. Theyve been banging on about it for months - usually choosing scapegoats - as if its the governments fault. Other countries are only mentioned in comparison when we compare unfavourably. Its a if the the increasingly pernicious MSM get a buzz out of seeing the country fare poorly.