Member Info for Grayling

It has been obvious for some time now that the Conservative right do not support the existence of a functioning public sector in any form at all. Creeping privatisation in the form of increasing farm-out of former state-run functions such as disability benefits assessments, army recruitment, cleaning services, and many others to useless private companies like Capita has been accelerated of late along with creeping privatisation of the NHS. This is not to mention the disasters that are our privatised utilities and rail transport. Have you noticed the absolute deluge of adverts for private health care of late? Of course Toryboy cannot come out up-front and state this, so it is glossed over and disguised by misleading and bland statements as to how many billions are being spent on this that and the other. Wake up and smell the coffee before it too late as there will be a point of no return.

Just to clarify I take no pleasure in this observation as I have held these since 2017 and reinvested all of the dividends paid out to me. My BE is now 52.64p and when it is reached I am out.

LTI no amount of obfuscation on your part can disguise the fact that despite spending many millions of £'s buying back their own shares and cancelling them Mr Market has judged that the overall value of the enterprise has fallen. OK you can argue that the without the buybacks they would be closer to 30p a share, but the overall direction of travel as dictated by the market is downward ie. more people are selling out of LLOY than are buying into the dream.

50M = £9500! I bet the MM's are creaming themselves with excitement they have never seen such action before. LOL

No idea what the fcuk you are on about. You should get out more. LOL

I think you are assuming that anyone who is sane would consider voting for "reform" as an alternative to either Labour or Tory! I would rather vote for the Monster Raving Loony Party than give my vote to those swivel-eyed morons. Next you will be suggesting that the only solution to our problems is a military coup, perhaps a re-run of one of those old 1960's Avengers plots. LOL

I smell oil every time I open the garage doors. Perhaps I should drill a great big hole in the floor to try and find more! LOL

Christ, and you accuse me of being negative! LOL Cookoo is most apt for you matey :-)

The only useful role for the so called "Reform' party is to split the Tory vote ensuring their electoral wipe-out and then having gained zero seats as a result, slip quietly into the obscurity of the sewer from whence they came. LOL

BLB There is always one knob on every board who just cannot resist a means of telling everyone that they are “considerably richer than yow” . LOL

Of course I am aware that you can make investments outside of an ISA it is just that under the current dividend, income and capital gains taxation regime, it is simply not worth it.

People keep banging about AIM being "bent". It is nothing of the kind. However, it is populated by a high percentage of crappy companies with no hope of turning a profit and thus not worthy of investment. It is also home to some spectacularly successful and well-run enterprises which are and have been extremely good to me over the years. Don't complain if you buy a dud (MIN, UKOG, VALR to name but a few) just make sure you know exactly what you are buying into. LOL

For those with the sense to shelter all of their investments from income tax as I have it is tantamount to cutting off access. LOL

Utter b****cks! Its bad enough having to live through this tory s***t , but cutting off access to the only markets in which one can make an honest dollar is tantamount to economic suicide. The UK market is poor because the UK is terminally risk averse and does not encourage inward investment. end of. Until this mindset changes, the UK will lag world markets and cutting of our access to them is not the solution.

You cannot be a conservative if you pay your taxes! Any self-respecting Tory has long ago extricated themself from the minor inconvenience of paying taxes. LOL Ask Mrs Mone and her sidekick, she will put you right :-)

So what? You should pay less attention to the Guardian readership and focus more on the imminent demise of UKOG as a going concern. LOL

I would not even bother wasting the paper writing to dear Jeremy. UKOG will run out of cash and die long before the legal impediments to their non-progress in hydrocarbon production are dealt with. LOL

Yes you may be right but "expected" is the key uncertainty. Unlike my 5.75%, which is guaranteed your projections are just that and may not come to pass. As for the buybacks, so far what have they achieved? Prevented the SP from falling even further than it has? Maybe, but hardly the guaranteed money returned to shareholders that many seem to believe. At least LLOY are cancelling, unlike the sham of putting them into treasury. LOL

So what I have a Paragon fixed rate cash ISA for 1 year at 5.75% matures next August plus my Zopa flexible cash ISA is paying 5.08% so LLoyds not so attractive even tax-free. LOL

LTI Au contraire. I am stuck with several thousand of these turkeys. My own fault (inertia). Thankfully only 2.74% down (inc reinvested divis). At BE I am out and putting the cash to work elsewhere. LOL