Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[minerve 2] 03/1/2021 11:02

rburtn

Good post.

Happy New Year to you. :)

[rburtn] 03/1/2021 11:00

Why is it necessary for the Brexiteers on this BB to go to such lengths as they do, posting every few seconds, to justify themselves? I thought the benefits were to be so obvious we would be partying for decades - so far, the figures show our GDP is down 5% from what it would have been had we stayed in. Personally, my small non-sterling, frozen, pension is up 57% today from what it was the week before the referendum. Some success for me from the Brexit wreckage and its effect on the £. You can see why Brexit was so welcome to the press barons with all their wealth in tax shelters off-shore. Pity my pension only represents 2 years overseas work, I really should not have returned to this land dominated by ignorant and gullible losers.

[cheshire pete] 03/1/2021 10:55

Three groups going forward:

A.) Those who celebrate our sovereign Brexit, and who'll capitalise on the global opportunities now open to us.
B.) The neutrals and remainers now accepting Brexit who'll follow in the wake of group A.
c.) The remoaners / rejoiners who'll carp on about a pyrrhic victory and focus on anything negative.

Fast forward 10 years: Group A will have prospered mightily, Group B will be better off too, some to their surprise, and Group C will have gone nowhere, trapped in their self made downward spiral of negativity and pessimism.

As for LLOY, 10 years on anyone's guess....takeover?

[minerve 2] 03/1/2021 10:45

Bitcoin going up!

Quick you moron - BUY BUY BUY!

ROFLMAO!

[minerve 2] 03/1/2021 10:43

"I am one of the lucky ones who benefited from the Erasmus programme, spending a year studying in Berlin in 2000. I was 20 at the time and I couldn’t afford to live in dorms at my home university in the UK, so Berlin and the Erasmus scheme offered me a chance to be properly independent. I spent the year living with a Pole, two Italians, a Romanian and a Swede and making many German friends at the university. I loved it, and I know that without Erasmus, this young lad from a working class family in Gillingham would never have gotten to broaden his horizons in this way. It pains me that other young British men and women may be denied this same opportunity."

Comment on the FT.

[minerve 2] 03/1/2021 10:41

Comparing Erasmus with the Turing scheme is like comparing a BMW or Mercedes with a Morris Minor, i feel sorry for Mr Turing who cannot protect his name any longer and it will be attached to whatever scheme the shoddy spinners in Downing street want to sell to the public.

[minerve 2] 03/1/2021 10:39

So Mark Francois is delegating the job of finding advantages of Brexit to the civil servants he despises - presumably as nobody can see any advantages and so it will be convenient to blame the civil servants.

[maxk] 03/1/2021 09:05

This is an article expounding the nu remain refrain morphing into rejoin.

Basic wishful thinking.






The real story is in the comments section....on and on and on about what we have lost and the world will never be the same again.


I'm beginning to think the Graun readership is made up of robots without a single original thought between them.

Very dodgy programming

[xxxxxy] 03/1/2021 08:37

As we start the New Year as a fully sovereign nation, we will all reflect upon the year we have left behind and look to the year ahead with hope and optimism.A new British-produced vaccine against coronavirus is set to transform the way in which we live our lives, saving lives at home and across the globe and reinstating our influence as a global science power.Telegraph readers have stood by the Government in our determined quest to leave the EU and follow our own destiny in the world once again while upholding the will of the British people by taking back control of our money, our borders, our laws and our waters.The public have patiently endured more than four years of wrangling, rancour, division and perpetual debate. From the 2016 referendum through to the 2019 general election, they have continually reminded us elected politicians of the importance and responsibility we hold to protect our democracy and ensure that its institutions deliver for them.Throughout this period they, along with Parliament, saw variations of "Brexit" offered up repeatedly as an attempt to tick the box and move the Brexit debate on. Those options did not deliver what the British people voted for – freedom to take back control of our money, borders, laws, trade and fishing waters. It was therefore inevitable that some Members of Parliament, myself included, did not support those options.While we knew this change would not be easy, we did know that to secure change of this scale would require leadership brave enough for the task. Finally, we have a deal secured by the Prime Minister which has been approved and put into statute by Parliament and which fully delivers on what the British people voted for in the referendum and at the last election.It is a deal that will deliver for families and businesses in every part of the UK with the first free trade agreement based on zero tariffs and zero quotas that has ever been achieved; a deal that guarantees that we are no longer bound by EU rules, that there is no role for the European Court of Justice and that we will have full political and economic independence.Our innovative British businesses and entrepreneurs will be able to take full advantage of the opportunities created by being an independent trading nation, able to strike trade deals with partners all around the world.Forging a new relationship with the EU also means taking back control of our borders, allowing Britain to finally control who comes into this country. Free movement has ended and people who want to live in the UK will now have to meet the requirements of our new points-based system.The UK has done what many said was impossible and struck a truly unprecedented deal with the EU which gives our police and security services the tools and partnerships to help keep the public safe. Having left the EU means we can give these agencies stronger powers to keep this country safe and protect our homeland security.That includes banning foreign criminals who have served more than a year in jail from entering the UK. We will refuse to accept notoriously insecure national identity cards and will be able to crack down on illegal imports of goods through the introduction of pre-arrival data on goods being imported from the EU into Great Britain.We will also crack down on illegal immigration and reform the broken asylum system which only encourages people trafficking into the country through dangerous and illegal routes.From now on, there will be no more British opt-outs, vetoes or net annual payments to Brussels, but instead a new relationship between two sovereign equals and the freedom to trade, create new opportunities and set new standards as pioneers of science and research with control of our country's own great destiny.At the start of this new chapter in our nation's remarkable history, my message is one of hope. As a global trading power and the fifth largest economy in the world, for centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.  Every lesson of history has shown that freedom and free trade are the greatest engines of prosperity and advancement. Our course is now set to grasp those freedoms and steer a new path built on the opportunities that lie ahead.Priti Patel MP is the Home Secretary... Daily Telegraph

[cheshire pete] 02/1/2021 23:49

The LSE has been subject to several takeover bids in recent years...all came to nought.

[jl5006] 02/1/2021 23:43

Given the need to trade noble metals it is hard to see how the EU can do so without LME.
They have no mechanism

[jl5006] 02/1/2021 23:40

And who laughs last.

[jl5006] 02/1/2021 23:38

Financials - worked via Paris really
Via Frankfurt
Really EU the powerhouse?
We shall see who can and who cant and who lies first

[jl5006] 02/1/2021 23:34

That covers all the noble metals and base metals

[jl5006] 02/1/2021 23:33

Metal exchanges only worked via London N York and Tokyo -
Covering the 3 8 hr shifts via LME
There is no EU equivalent