Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[bbalanjones] 13/2/2019 11:56

g2: soz, disagree, at least it was OUR TAXES spent by OUR Government on OUR behalf.

[bbalanjones] 13/2/2019 11:54

I wonder, if and when the FBI/Russian meddling in the 2016 POTUS election is published , if it also identifies BREXIT links?

[polar fox] 13/2/2019 11:54

Another tweet. "Could get ugly".

Reason tomorrow's Govt Brexit motion is troublesome for the Eurosceptic Tories is that it reiterates "support for the approach to leaving the EU expressed by this House on 29 January" which included the Spelman amendment rejecting no deal.
Could get ugly.

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[bbalanjones] 13/2/2019 11:50

Minerve: yes, sadly, all true. As stated we need a rapid re-alignment of our Party systems if the values are to be preserved and enhanced for the general good.

[minerve] 13/2/2019 11:42

Russia, China and the US ALL want No deal and ALL want no EU. That should be obvious.

[polar fox] 13/2/2019 11:38

Laura's tweet:

Tmrw’s vote which was meant to be a bit of a non-event, sounds like might be govt defeat - senior erg source says they haven’t decided whether to abstain or vote against but they won’t back govt'

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So ERG may abstain, rather than vote against. Merits close monitoring.

[minerve] 13/2/2019 11:10

All is not as rosy as it seems:

"More than 7m Americans are behind on their car loans" - FT

[alphorn] 13/2/2019 10:59

I have difficulty in understanding the comments on the €uro. It is the second largest and second most traded currency in the forex market after the US $.
It has been in place around 20 years - to compare prices with those 20 years ago in previous currencies is stretching the imagination!
How much was a pint 20 years ago?! (eg. 14p a pint to £2.87 in 40 years).

[maxk] 13/2/2019 10:55

Guy Verhofstadt warns Brexiteers could end up on the guillotine like the leaders of the French Revolution

[grahamite2] 13/2/2019 10:37

I can't agree k38.

The values on which the EU was founded remain intact and unchanged and that's the issue. They were the solution to yesterday's problem.

Not only the war years but, in Germany, the immediate post war years, were horrific beyond anything we today can really understand, however much we may have read about it. If a repetition could be avoided, any other considerations were completely unimportant - and that includes things like democracy, accountability and honesty in government. Today we can see there is no prospect of a major European war (and there never was after 1945). But still we are saddled with an institution that places no great value on democracy, accountability and honesty.

[cm44] 13/2/2019 10:34

K38,
You say get rid of the euro,
Most French retailers double price in euros and f francs,not sure why and don't know if any of the other Europeans countries do it.

[k38] 13/2/2019 10:21

Brussels is the cancer of Europe. The values which on which the EU founded long lost. More important, get rid of the euro ! If they don't go back to the basic they doom to fall andThe sooner the better !!

[minerve] 13/2/2019 09:34

"The EU looks like the Soviet Union in 1991 – on the verge of collapse"

And the gift of control is given back to the Chinese and the US.

Well done folks in being complicit in this appalling lack of judgement!

[maxk] 13/2/2019 09:31

The EU looks like the Soviet Union in 1991 – on the verge of collapse


George Soros



In May’s European elections, anti-EU forces will be on the rise. Those who want to preserve the union’s values must wake up



Tue 12 Feb 2019 15.12 GMT



Goerges solution here:

[minerve] 13/2/2019 09:10

Organizations like that always need to constantly change. What we want is decent people to continue that process. Not some ape like Trump.

[alphorn] 13/2/2019 08:12

grahamite - I expect that there is a small list of the organisations to overhaul; namely NATO, UN and WTO. Trump may be the catalyst to start the process.

[philanderer] 13/2/2019 00:06

'Lloyds rocked by new whistle blowing claim: Insider says bank drove companies to the wall'

Explosive new claims that Lloyds wrecked small businesses for a profit during the financial crisis are being probed by regulators.

Bankers conspired to tip firms into administration by loading them with fees they could never pay, says a whistleblower’s testimony seen by the Mail.

These companies’ assets were then seized by Lloyds and partner companies to boost profits, says the insider – a subcontractor involved in rescuing firms.

[k38] 13/2/2019 00:02

In the dream of euroland, Brussels, they employ people from the 27 with influence on their governments to defend Brussels and sure themselves from the voters.