Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[careful] 15/11/2024 13:57

Tariffs work both ways.
If the EU. and UK put 100% tariffs on Apple products and Tesla cars for example, maybe
Chins and India would do the same then that would really be a trade war.

Trump is more vulnerable than he thinks.

As for drill baby drill, OPEQ could take a hit and oversupply oil to bankrupt more expensive American oil producers.
The shale oil producers and frackers were crushed last time when the price of oil collapsed.

America always beg Saudi to pump more oil when the price is too high and to restrict production when it is cheap.

Trump does not hold all of the aces.

[xxxxxy] 15/11/2024 13:52

Simon Goodall"What has happened to Allison is absolutely shocking and indicates that we are now living in a police state where saying things that the establishment don't like is considered more of a crime than actual crimes."..Daily Telegraph

[xxxxxy] 15/11/2024 13:15

Personally, I think Reeves and Starmer are Mad Marxists....hash view?

[careful] 15/11/2024 13:14

Musk sacked 80% of the Twitter staff.
No unions there or at Tesla.

Imagine Musk taking on the public sector unions in the NHS or teachers.

And how do you clip the wigs of the human rights lawyers when so many MPs have legal training?

I heard Anna Soubry, (the ex Tory MP remainer) on Sky saying that illegals should be given safe passage before the lawyers hear their case for asylum. (So few get refused entry with an endless appeals routine resulting in several repeat hearings.
Lots of good business for Human rights lawyers such as Starmer, Cherie Blair and Clooney's wife.

How do we clear the swamp?

[xxxxxy] 15/11/2024 13:14

Rachel Reeves's National insurance (NI) tax raid will destroy 100,000 jobs as hard-pressed companies are forced to lay off staff and freeze hiring, analysis has found.Deutsche Bank warned the jobs market was already showing signs of "cracking" and warned that the Chancellor's changes to NI would put further strain on employers....[15 nov24] Daily Telegraph

[utrickytrees] 15/11/2024 12:30

This is worth a listen. Interview with Elon a week before Trumps emphatic election win. Some great analogies comparing US bloated public sector to a rowing boat with 1 rower & 8 coxes & when they lose the race they sack the rower!

[1carus] 15/11/2024 12:11

The way I see this is that if lloy can exercise a 2bln buyback in less than 9 months, it can handle a 2-4bln scam tax over 3 years... it technically has money in the bank to do it, assuming they don't give all those shares away to staff.
Long term this has got to be a ggod bet from here.

[gotnorolex] 15/11/2024 11:39

Scruff, the massive Harefield section of the HS2 project has stop/started over the last 25 years. To placate the well healed residents in the village, the mess which was cordoned off by chicken wire fences got covered with green camouflage canvas tarpaulins for miles and miles around, at huge cost and regularly replaced because its made out of biodegradable material!
Auf Wiedersehen Pet in reverse, the pub near one of our offices in Princes Risborough was run by Germans for Germans who were building the tunnel, Farage would've been at home there with his fluent Deutsche!
Prost!

[arja] 15/11/2024 11:23

no, NOT right wing Min Pong you muppet but EXTREME RIGHT wing !

[utrickytrees] 15/11/2024 11:12

At the centre of the problem is that the snr civil servants runs the government. The Tories were nothing but embellishment to give the illusion of democracy.

[min ping] 15/11/2024 10:48

'Two right wing parties, the Tories who had the burden of office and UKIP barking out simple solutions to tricky problems often backed by an aggressive media,'


the tories havent been right wing for years idiot

[hardup1] 15/11/2024 10:39

I have bought back in this morning at 55.5p

[careful] 15/11/2024 10:21

I voted for the 14 tears of Tory chaos and even voted for them this year.

Yet they were pathetic, and way back the emergence of Farage and his IKIP party really worried them.
Two right wing parties, the Tories who had the burden of office and UKIP barking out simple solutions to tricky problems often backed by an aggressive media,
Then Corbyn and the looney left took over Labour so we had no alternative but to vote for this shambolic lot again and again.
All we talked about was Brexit Brexit Brexit.
Then 8 years ago the referendum.
Farage helped Boris to delude the UK public into thinking that they were great again, could stand alone and no have to put up with the EU. and obey club rules to reap the benefits.

So here we are, trying to cosy up to out biggest trading partner, the EU. and repair the damage.

[gotnorolex] 15/11/2024 10:07

£80 billion "MegaFund" of investment for infrastructure projects run by socialists is no more than an oxymoron!
Like HS2, will in actuality rise to four times that and then 50% cancelled!
The rest splashed on welfare for lazy louts!
There goes the long accumulated pension fund!
Kiss goodbye to our kitty for a rainy day!

[scruff1] 15/11/2024 10:02

Unintended consequences falling out from STARMERS election and his appointment of crazy unqualified extremists.
The left wing see this as AS THEY SEE EVERYTHING as a chance to cosy up to the bureaucracy, red tape loving, anti democratic Eu. They hate capitalism - full stop.. Our current economic decline is a consequence.

All of a sudden socialism is off the US agenda. Socialists have never apologised for their destruction.

It really is game on and Labour seem tougher this time, they have learned from Thatcher and Trump.
It is a idealogical war, and they have another 4 years to do it.

Agree with that. Except this lot are too thick to create anything but chaos - they have served up their hors d'ouevre. AS every day passes Starmer and co prove their complete lack of suitability or capability to run anything apart from the student union at some minor failing university in some unattractive location like Rockall

[utrickytrees] 15/11/2024 09:22

Thing is, it all very well having unwaivering political alignment but we've reached that point where the mast we all pinned our colours to has wet rot & fallen. Without a mast we should keep our colours in our pockets.

[careful] 15/11/2024 09:18

They should pay.
All of this talk about farms closing down and farmers committing suicide is crazy propaganda.

Trust fund law should be tackled also.
It is not right that billionaire landowner or the like of Branson pay no inheritance tax.

HMG should get on with it.

Even a man who dies with a modest buy to let portfolio is in the same position where his relatives have to sell assets or borrow cash to pay inheritance tax.
Same with any asset, why should farmers, spoilt on state subsidies for decades get away with it?