Member Info for 67Sam

...Carried over from the lloyds board, the question is:

Why has Market Dealer vanished? One minute he's feeling the love for M&G, next he's disappeared.

What could have possibly gone wrong??

Scruffyann

"He’s been doing great on MNG actually"

Indeed he has, perhaps he's done so well he's sold up and is now sipping margaritas on a sunny warm beach surrounded by lovely senoritas. And we will never hear his promises again.

Or, he's somehow got out of his depth and had to reincarnate into a different username. Time will tell, no doubt.

Lti

"He will be doing another 'Dr Who'"

I'd happily see him replaced with Billie Piper :)

JCB

"Has fakey been banned"

Hard to believe, he was still there last Friday replying to me and very much enjoying the MNG leg up. I wonder what on earth he's up to?

Asp

" block listing of 285,000,000 ordinary shares of 10p each in Lloyds Banking Group plc"

There was also a block listing on 26 November 2024 for 185,000,000 shares, so a total of 470,000,000 new shares issued.

This years buyback has reduced the share count by 828,268,448 and is about a third of the overall expenditure. The share count is now about 60.24 Billion. It shows how essential buybacks are. They mitigate the new shares issued and ensure we achieve a net reduction year on year. This automatically increases the share of dividend given to shareholders.

Blower

"think we live in a climate emergency"

That has nothing to do with my post, it's just another example of you not knowing how to respond to a reasoned argument.

"a d will believe anything a man in a white coat tells you"

I will believe what NASA say and I will ignore your rubbish, thats absolutely correct.

Blower

"Lti ppl like 67 are beyond reason"

It's very simple, at least try and keep up. I questioned the claim that it would take a couple of weeks to leave the ECHR and the 1951 Convention. I also gave some evidence why I doubted this, and a I included a reference for that source. You then responded by accusing me of advocating for "open door migration" and calling me a "useful idiot".

You are only worth half of that, just the idiot part.

You are incapable of responding rationally. Any reasoned debate just demands too much from you, it is beyond your intelligence. In a desperate attempt to appear dominant you always behave in the same way. You resort to insult and you just MAKE STUFF UP. This just makes you look embarrassingly childish, but once again you lack sufficient wit to be capable of that kind of insight.

:) Your dream come true Falky

Lti

"More people would work reducing benefits payments."

Yes, those that can work would be better off to do so. Say thats half of the 4.5% of the population who are unemployed. Imagine for a moment that they all they had jobs to take. Do you think this would be a net gain or net loss of gov income from then raising the threshold by £8,000 for every working person?

"with a majority REFORM government it could be a matter of a couple of weeks"

I dont know, but look at what others say:

"At the international level, to leave the ECHR, a state must formally notify the Council of Europe of its intention to withdraw with six months’ notice. The UK would still have obligations arising from its membership before the notification became effective. Under international law, judgments issued by the ECtHR against the UK before its withdrawal would still have to be implemented. At the domestic level within the UK, it is likely that the government would have to seek the approval of Parliament before notifying its intention to withdraw through an Act of Parliament."

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/leaving-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/

Bit more than a couple of weeks then?

Lti

"immigrants costing millions per day in hotels would also be kicked out of the country"

I see you ignore my comment "Getting out of the ECHR and withdrawing from the 1951 convention would take time, if that is their plan".

I suppose that could be done in a year, with a big enough parliamentary majority. Let's see, how many seats do they have at the moment?

Ah yes, they have five.

Thats one more seat than the Greens, to put it into perspective :)

Lti

Good evening.

"Anyone arriving by small boats will be kicked out again ASAP under a REFORM government"

I thought that a reform government would be subject to the same laws as the current one, so "kicking out" is another headline grab with no real foundation. Getting out of the ECHR and withdrawing from the 1951 convention would take time, if that is their plan.

"If you had heard the whole of NF's TV news conference"

I dont think I could listen that long, but I assume his "tax easing" is based on spurious claims of savings from abandoning net zero and shutting down asylum hotels. Again he does not state what he would do instead, just what he wont continue to do.

All very cosy isn't it, until its tested. What do you think raising the tax threshold to £20k would do to Government income? Do you not think Mr Farage begins to make even Ms Truss look economically competent?

Farage's promise to remove the 2 child benefit cap is totally at odds with his criticisms of immigration. Immigrants tend to have larger family sizes, often due to the perception that the oldest will go out to work and contribute to the household. This policy could be argued to incentivise small boat arrivals. It seems all the political parties want is headlines; none of them have, or is capable of having, thought out funded policies.

Guinness is brewed in St James brewery, Dublin. It's a beautiful pint. It has also built breweries around the world including Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Malaysia. I dont agree with extra cold or canned Guinness. There's lots of good reasons to explore Dublin, but Guinness is my favourite one.

Dorf

"many of these places no extra capacity for raw sewage to be treated"

Yes, its concerning to see 30-50,000 new homes planned for the "Bristol extension". Wessex Water has just completed a £55 Million "super sewer" which required a three and a half mile tunnel to be bored. It was designed to address population growth. Despite this and a planned extension for Avonmouth Sewage Treatment plant, the River Frome still stinks like a festival toilet. It is culverted in built up areas, but still subject to sewage dumping in areas where it's open water. Liebour are just headline grabbing again and I suspect very little of these plans will be achieved by 2029.

Ant

"modern balls and clubs its surprising how far a strong lad can hit the ball".

Sorry to rub it in, but it's always down to good technique, not youthful brute force.

Https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/26/about-1bn-in-car-loan-compensation-at-risk-because-data-deleted-lawyers-warn

Nu

"Put an end to Salary Sacrifice Car Schemes"

Tusker is a no deposit monthly car lease scheme, you dont own the car. If you want to purchase it you'll have to offer a big lump sum cash (and taxed) payment at the end of the lease. You also pay tax on it as a benefit in kind. The reason for the high prevalence of electric vehicles is because the tax rate is based on the emissions, so zero emissions reduces this tax considerably. Schemes like this enable people to drive new cars or nearly new cars that cost more than they can afford to buy. Whether you like electric cars or not, I dont really agree with your argument. Salary sacrifice also has the downside of reducing pension benefits for the employee if they are in a DB scheme. It tends to increase in appeal the higher your salary ie higher rate and additional rate tax payers would find it significantly more attractive than people paying the basic rate. Some people also like the fact that everything except fuel and oil is paid for, all the other bills eg. insurance, servicing, breakdown etc are included. Tusker offers the UK’s widest selection of EVs, ULEVs (and petrol) cars on an employee car benefit scheme. I think it plays a very small part in Lloyds business, but its a diversification thats worth having. The NI and tax issues your objecting over are mitigated by the economic benefits from higher sales. And it isn't salary sacrifice thats rigged in favour of EV's, it's the Company Car tax laws.

Good reminder Lti. He's gone very quiet. Not posted since 21st March so I assume he's under a different name now he looks a fool. He left this comment here in March "I would donate all my LLOYds divis to Ukraine but the share is so crap they would not be able to buy a 7.62mm round". (The cost of a 7.62mm round in UK is approx. 90p.)

Lti

"From 1715 to 1810, the Chagos Islands were part of France's Indian Ocean possessions, administered through Isle de France — which was a colony of France (later renamed as Mauritius). Under the Treaty of Paris (1814), France ceded Isle de France and the Chagos Islands to the United Kingdom. n 1965, the United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago away from Mauritius and into the British Indian Ocean Territory. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. The Chagos Islands had been home to the Chagossians, a Bourbonnais Creole-speaking people, until the United Kingdom expelled them from the archipelago at the request of the United States between 1967 and 1973 to allow the United States to build Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, which operates under a special agreement allowing significant US military presence. The main forcible removal of Diego Garcia’s population took place in July and September 1971. Since 1971 only the atoll of Diego Garcia has been inhabited, and only by employees of the military including civilian contracted personnel. Since being expelled, Chagossians have been prevented from entering the islands."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago

P.s. If justice was done, they would do exactly the same with Salisbury Plain. It was taken illegally and promised to be returned but never has been. Residents of Imber were forced to leave. The government should pay millions of pounds to Wiltshire and then lease it back for millions more.