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No shares repurchased on Friday? No RNS showing here today!

Sympathies BBG.

From what I see, the UK is mere;y in an advisory form of lockdown. I'm currently in a police enforced lockdown in Spain - BIG difference - andone of the big effects is that people continue their social interaction by mobiles and internet. They also watch the likes of Netflix, play gaming etc 24?. The result is that the internet is continually on the blink. Just warning you people that if enforced lockdown comes your way, your access to sites such as this and all financial info will be compromised. we can pontificate but you won't know what's hit you until it hits you.
BTW - get yourself a dog. It seems that throughout Europe the only guaranteed way to be allowed to go for a walk is with a dog!

Anyone alleging that Aviva has no cash should perhaps read today's RNS concerning our liquidity!

Bruce - are you OK?

Thanks LTI. I'm getting limited reliable coverage on the subject and I misunderstood. Still intend to remain 69 though, good number I seem to recall!

As per previous, I'm not far from 70 but think I will give it a miss and stay 69 - women do it, so can I. I'm not so much bothered by the suggestion as disputing the logic. The 70s are the vulnerable group, no more spreaders of the virus than anyone else. If they mix freely they (include me for arguments sake - my decision) are more likely to catch CV and die from it. Free up housing, reduce pressure on NHS, save on pensions/benefits, less smelly people on public transport, money handed down to children to boost the economy - what's not to like? So why on earth self isolate those over 70s who do not wish it, for no gain. The majority of the population are under 70 so they are more likely to be spreading the virus - self isolate them! My argument for impeding the spread of the virus is more valid than yours but equally as stupid. Twenty people per day die in UK from specifically alcohol related reasons, fifteen per day, tragically, from suicide, five per day from traffic accidents. Why no great call for the abolition of alcoholic products and motorised transport? If you want to live in the modern world then take what comes with it, if it includes a burgeoning and transient population and all that they carry. Isolation - good luck with that one!

Currently holidaying on Costa Blanca, Valencia, where the Regional Govt ordered all bars and restaurants closed from midnight yestarday for a minimum of 15 days. Many small businesses who are already suffering from smaller numbers of holidaymakers (CV fears) and are living on a financial knife edge could well go under with the knock on effects on employment, food producers etc.
SeanHunter - you're right - Spain is slitting it's throat!
I'm self catering so I popped round to the supermarket for a couple of bottles of vino and some beers and couldn't believe the throng at the chilled meat counter. They were literally fighting over packs of meat. Funnily enough, it was mainly the Spanish oldies who were at it, most of the snowflake younger facemask wearing ones were stood looking on with what looked like fear in their eyes! Astonishing yet sickening.
I'm no more than a lick and a promise off 70 but have no intention of surrendering my lifestyle to the dictats of scaremongers and politicians. I survived Asian Flu in the 50s so if CV19 fancies it's chances - well bring it on! Seafront should be relatively empty now and the sun is up so time for walkies.

Re Oxo - 23:55 - 'Read this today. Lol. Domestos or bleach kills it!' Well Domestos have been saying for years that it kills 99% of household germs, so if it kills CV19, then we've been living with something more dangerous (the other 1%) for years! Or am I oversimplifying things?.

Oxo - keep meaning to come over to Marsden one lunch time to see if if we can have a chinwag. Month or so maybe when I'm back from hols and the icebergs have disappeared from the coastline, Climate Change willing of course. Lol!

I also made a joke about property prices as in Sunderland, as in most cities, there are suburbs where houses command prices into 7 figures, as well as the lower end of the scale into the low 5s. There is, I gather, a street in the midlands (Dudley I believe) called Corbyn Lane, where the residents are seeking a change of name as they feel their property prices are falling due to the association with the most unpopular Labour leader in living memory! Well done JC - you beat Blair at something!

Re :- Toff 13.18. Just to clarify things, there is no Corbyn Lane in Sunderland, but if there was, his £200,000 wouldn't buy a terraced house, but the whole street! Sorry Oxo, but the truth will out!

Lower profits, lower dividends - dividend yield to be more attuned to a lower SP?
NC - just what you've been preaching all along, isn't it?

Is it possible that the BBC's repeated instructions on how to prevent infections are aimed mainly at today's young, because they only know about climate change (just kidding) and beggar all else?

Is it just me or does AHO's remuneration seem inversely proportional to the SP losses experienced by Lloyds shareholders?

Good to see we're taking advantage of the low SP and have pretty much doubled the rate of buybacks these last three days!

Thanks Mr C.
GLA

Briton - loved to see your post, more of the same please. Too many uneducated proles on here could do with some enlightenment. Ignore the negatives, it's only noise!

Many of you guys and gals have been invested in CEY longer than my 4 years, so I ask was there ever a problem with any association between CEY and Mubarak? Seems to me our SP fall is overdone considering we should be a safe haven at present. Just wondering or is it merely a coincidence.

BB - you've sussed me out. Yes, yes indeed!