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Quite a lot of wriggle room. Remember EU only take 20% of our financial services quite illegally!

A wing man. Now there is a thought. I shall let you know!

Hear hear. And when you have been widowed you do not get nice kisses from strange and lovely women like you do in Italy. Sometimes they are even Danish or Dutch or Canadian!

One of the craziest posts I have seen from someone who has not bothered to look at the charts and knows nothing about the workings of the Stock Market. In the past 5 years Lloyds has been no lower than about 52p. Large trades which are what count bypass the market and done by algorhyms. Smaller deals are done through a broker negotiating with a jobber or market maker. A large FTSE100 share such as Lloyds is unlikely to suffer any kind of false market as it is so liquid. Buy a good book on the stock exchange or steer clear of something to which you are clearly not suited.

PMQ TM still going on abut the same agreement. Insanity is doing the same thing time after time in the hope the outcome will change. I think it is time for the men in white coats. The Maddest inmate is now in charge of the asylum

Why all this mumbo mumbo about Metrobank bottom of Division 3 on the Lloyds board which is in the top 3 of the Premier League

The high street's have been a nightmare for many years. E.g. Londo, Worthing, Brighton, Umbertide, Perugia the last two both Italy. A growing problem going back many years

Positive comments at PMQ today

It was not nearly half the electorate who voted remain. It a as nearly half of those who voted. If you abstain your vote does not count. Not a difficult concept To understand.

Their situation is interesting. Not a good idea to cross swords with them, they might retaliate with cross bows.

Yes indeed. It would have been nice if TM had said "leaving the EU is a huge opportunity and we shall take advantage of it by..................." but sadly it is not her style.

Agreed. Sick of the way the submarine never takes decisions nor explains what she is thinking. Possibly the worst pm ever in any country. I thought politicians liked doing things.

Agree with your last comment totally

The share price of Lloyds was not over priced. I subscribe to the theory of value investing which always works in the long term providing profits and dividends are increasing. My old ladies used to murmur if their capital went down in a bear market. My retort was look at your divs they had at least stayed the same or gone up. They then felt much happier. Only once had a complaint on investment in 30 years. But interest rates often low. Good yielders can be low risk as Lloyds is at present,.

But the exchange is driven by sentiment greed and fear. Always has always will. The rise since January is extraordinary. One could have made 40% without much trouble. Is that to do with Brexit. Compare HKSH Standard and Barclays where the picture is different.

UKIP stood against the Speaker in 2015 I think

You are quite correct but it is a convention and I seem to remember someone standing against the speaker in a recent election.

I strongly recommend the book Armed Neutrality about Switzerland in the WW2. They could mobilise the whole country which was armed in 24 hours if necessary. They had purchased Meschersmitz aircraft from Germany and they did not hesitate to shoot down other Mesh of the German airforce if they strayed into Swiss airspace. I would not recommend the EU to pick a fight with the Swiss.

To check my comments go to charts at the top of this page and look at the position on several time scales eg 3 and 5 years. Illuminating indeed.

Your recollection is wrong. The plunge from the peak SP of around 70p started 12 days before the Brexit vote and had retraced 12p in that short time. As everyone expected the vote to go the other way the fall cannot be attributed to Brexit. And look at the recovery this year stonking indeed. Cause and effect not that easy to apportion in this case I think.