Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[buywell3] 13/8/2020 07:49

FED officials now starting to get worried re the DEBTS they have created

buywell thinks another $ 6 Trillion needed in next 6 months

$1 Trillion dollars a month to keep the wheels on

Next generation of yanks and EU and many other countries to pay for mistakes made in handling this pandemic

Which is still in its infancy IMO with years to run

[xxxxxy] 13/8/2020 07:34

The language of the leftBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: AUGUST 13, 2020People complain to me that they can  no longer say what they wish. They feel they are losing their right to free speech or to independent thoughts. They have to follow the fashionable mantra of the left who dominate language and attitudes on law and order, immigration, transport and energy amongst other topics.  They were hoping for some change of tone or lead from the top with a change to a Conservative majority government at the last election.Some people try it on with this site, wanting to cast generalised allegations against religions, nations, large groups of people or named members of a global elite. I do not allow it, as I do not like unpleasant  or dangerous language casting possibly false allegations and adding to divisions. Nor do I   have time or legal resource  to check out allegations against named individuals. There are campaigning media with better resources and more appetite to root out individual cases of  law breaking, excessive influence or whatever you should go to for that.I do, however, agree that we need to be able to talk sensibly  about matters that worry people, and need to analyse problems like the cost and availability of energy or how we police our borders, free from  attempts to prevent us by making false allegations against us over our motives and attitudes. We need to keep open the right to talk of these things and to disagree with the authoritarian left who wish us all to say the same things and to come to the same conclusions, when often their priorities and remedies are damaging to both our freedoms and to people's prosperity.If we are to recover our economy, enhance our freedoms, level up around the UK and promote individual prosperity, we do need to challenge some of the left wing assumptions which make all that more difficult. I encourage people to write in with a better vision of the future. That is why, for example,   I have been working on energy policies to keep the lights on and provide more affordable energy for consumers and business, and why I have been urging the government to direct its powers to stamp out people trafficking and illegal migration risking lives to get people into the UK. We do need new approaches to a variety of problems that challenge the tired soundbites of political correctness.

[jl5006] 12/8/2020 22:09

18.31 and silence??????????????????????????????????????

[scruff1] 12/8/2020 22:04

I sold out on my gold yesterday. Not convinced I have done the right thing but 80% up since March so got to lock it in (plus other reasoning). See what happens. It can be volatile

[jl5006] 12/8/2020 18:31

High cost, high overhead, not terribly productive publicly funded innovation initiatives replete with people in suits claiming to do good and create growth are the precise opposite of the sleeping-under-the-desk overnight entrepreneurial endeavours that the government wants to promote.
Why does this continue without outcomes'
A simple question - so many bodies funded now pronounce - where does the money come from and does it serve any useful purpose?
We have to live in a real world where we are not governed by the media and think whats paid for by whom?
Lobbyists should be sent to Coventry and the BBC should be relocated there!

[gaffer73] 12/8/2020 17:06

Yeah, disappointed it didn't finish at 30p+

[chavitravi2] 12/8/2020 16:56

Spoilt its self abit last off. Still a gain is a gain.

[xxxxxy] 12/8/2020 14:53

GDP figures reveal big decline in public service output and rise in public sector inflationBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: AUGUST 12, 2020Two of the biggest sector falls in the economy in the sharp recession last quarter were health and education, owing to the impact of the virus on their ability to work. The ONS decided they delivered 34.4% less education and 27.2% less healthcare. These are bigger falls than the economy as a whole. Because public spending rose sharply the ONS also decided there was a very fast inflation in the public sector. They calculated public sector inflation or the rising cost of government at 32.7% "because the volume of government activity fell whilst at the same time government expenditure increased in nominal terms". The overall deflator "the broadest measure of inflation in the domestic economy" as a  result shot upwards.Restoring health and education output is a very important part of the recovery policies the government is now following. Of course the government needs to ensure safe working for all employees as the schools and surgeries get back to full working and the non Covid work of the hospitals builds up again.

[xxxxxy] 12/8/2020 14:51

354.Not sure if that is still true. Obesity may bE costing even more. Longevity is not the only measure. Quality and depth of live too, please.

[stonedyou] 12/8/2020 14:46

France warns Britain of 'declaration of maritime WAR' over Channel crossing demands

FRANCE has warned Britain's demands for further actions from French Border Force officials to contain the crossing of migrant boats across the Channel represent a "declaration of maritime war."


France and the United Kingdom have been once again dragged into debating each

other's role in containing and managing the flow of migrant boats across the

Channel. Britain has demanded Paris invest more to ensure the presence of

sufficient Border Patrol officials to return vessels trying to enter the UK to

their departure points across the French coast. But speaking to France 3 Hauts-de-

France, the Mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart warned Boris Johnson the UK's conduct

in recent days is tantamount to having declared "maritime war" on France.

[grahamite2] 12/8/2020 13:24

Live and let live has gone out of style in a big way. This country is becoming increasingly totalitarian.

[utrickytrees] 12/8/2020 13:07

We know your working on it Bob you've only got to look at all the inducements the Jocks get that you cant afford. The most recent being the examinations fiasco Take a good look at Gavin Williamson. ....that's the way to do it in England you either accept the moderated results OR take your mock results. The SNP have effectively allowed students to mark their own papers to buy kids votes in 2021. What a cynical spineless bunch you are.

[bargainbob] 12/8/2020 12:27

Utricky we working on leaving the Union . I do though fear how RUK would cope financially without us though.

[mitchy] 12/8/2020 10:45

Yep I'd agree with that. Gold has got a long way to fall yet and alot of that filthy Lukas will be coming home to equities .

[utrickytrees] 12/8/2020 09:54

Just pointing out the flaws in the happy clappy lefty pro asylum seeker argument Bobster. Scotland hasn't been really been affected by immigration cos it's a bit of economic back water. It also doesnt have any control of its economy with a defecit/ GDP ratio at 7 odd % so doesnt really appreciate the economic implications of refugees. Perhaps if English and Welsh tax payers weren't burdened with quite so much Scottish debt things might be a bit different.

[chavitravi2] 12/8/2020 09:39

Gold has taken a bit of a tumble this am, coming back a bit now.
This suggests to me folk are taking out to invest in the market while stock is still cheap. I may of course be wrong.