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Quick, call the papers, we’ve found the next Nostradamus in the form of Stargate! Well done for successfully calling a 50/50 chance. Jesus wept. I’ll get in touch when I do my next coin toss.

"Her reputation has been tarnished by Kwateng and an establishment who don't like anything outside the status quo." Oh my god. I have read some barmy things on this forum, but that unquestionably takes the biscuit! She's as mad as a box of frogs, and the most embarrassingly unskilled PM we have ever had. My 16 year old daughter would have done a better job. I also happened to go to the school that she painted as a working class, coal pit, ghetto in Leeds....and that happens to be in one of the most middle class areas you could possibly imagine. She's a cretin.

My advice would be not to seek advice on this board. The regular posters here are either deluded Lloyds fanboys (who, no matter what they say, could have earned far, far more money in almost countless other shares or funds whilst they have been banging the Lloyds drum) or weirdo polarised haters (either leavers or remainders). Speak to someone you know and trust, ideally a professional, and give them the whole story.

Simple reply from me Sjhaycroft. I have absolutely no confidence in the management of this company so there is no way I am putting in any more money. This has been the worst investment I have made for years. No matter what the apparent value of the rights issue is I am not giving these f*ckers any more of my money. This has wiped out some really good returns elsewhere, and I bear a grudge! Not very helpful, but I’m pleased to have it off my chest.

Some really odd chat on this board at the moment. Yes, it’s gone down. Shock horror! Who’d have thought the price could go down! Sit back, relax, and enjoy the divis. If you don’t want dividends why did you buy this in the first place? If you wanted a rocket ship, why did you buy this? This is boring. It will have ups and downs, and the downs are time to top up (if indeed you are looking for dividends). If you don’t want dividends, don’t buy these. If you can’t deal with the price going down, as well as up, don’t buy these - in fact don’t buy anything at all, ever.

He’s entitled to his views, and he’s just as entitled to share them as anyone else. He may be relentlessly negative, but there are far worse on these boards and I haven’t seen him make anything personal. If you think he’s bad, whatever you do don’t look in on the Lloyds board! For what it’s worth I can’t see why anyone would be in this right now. Far too many unknowns that outweigh any potential upside. If you want exposure to insurance there are plenty of other better options out there.

I don’t think they sell s*it like this.

Ooops I stand corrected Warthog. I read the news article not the original source. Always read the latter! Either way, no bad thing one of them is buying, and I can’t criticise Blanc.

You're going in really late on both of those Karlo. Persimmon was a screaming short until recently. I still don't like it, and there's obviously huge, huge headwinds with residential real estate at the moment, but the risk/reward going short now looks far less attractive. Good luck.

It'll come. Blanc is doing well and has just bought some up. It's steady eddy otherwise with the lovely fat dividend to compensate. Not a rocket ship but we all need a few comfy ones in the portfolio. If we get some good capital growth over the next 12 months better still, but for me this is a place to drop off a chunk for dividends.

My worst "investment" by a country mile. Don't blame someone for looking to go short even after the already massive decline. I wouldn't personally - just takes one short to go wrong to get utterly killed - but I have zero confidence in this outfit and its prospects.

God, I hope you’re joking SUFCESSEX. If you’d put that money into almost anything else, you would actually be sat on a lot of money and with many, many shares would have enjoyed a really good divi along the way. I hope you are loaded and this is just a small part of your portfolio, but I suspect from your posting history that is not the case. If not, please god diversify. My father in law did almost exactly the same thing you seem to be doing with RBS and blew all his family’s money. The number of peeps on this board who seem infatuated with this share is alarming,

All good points Jacob - and my account was inactive for over 2 years - but for me and others I suspect it means I just won’t use them at all. As you say, they probably don’t care about that as that’s not where the money is - but by doing so they are effectively refusing to serve customers who bet very moderately - that’s not a good look when they say they encourage their customers to bet responsibly. A guess just a question as to where the line is.

Minor point but I went on the William Hill website this weekend and tried to access my account that I opened during lockdown to put a bet on the grand national. It turned out they had closed my account due to inactivity - no issues with that - but they refused to reopen it and said the only way I could open a new account was to give them a different email address. I told them I only use 1 email address and wasn’t going to open another for the sole purpose of opening a gambling account. They weren’t interested - so no account for me. Just an observation really, that surely only degenerate gambler types are going to go through the bother of having multiple email addresses for the purposes of a bet. Seems a bit rubbish, and something not quite right about it. Effectively if you only gamble very occasionally they are not interested. I get that from a business perspective, but that is not at all in line with their overall message of responsible gambling. I think they could come a cropper on this sought of behaviour. Still holding as I still think this is a worth a punt - and no the irony is not lost on me - but this business model remains super high risk in my opinion.

I have never filtered anyone on any platform ever before, but I have just filtered Carltt. Life is just too short. If by any miracle he has a wife or partner I pity them. Run away!

To be fear to Carltt, Lloyds is a s*it share. We could all have put our money into countless other shares where we would have earned really great returns whilst this has sat here declining with a few trading opportunities here and there. I just feel sorry for the saddo that he feels he has to keep banging on about landlord this and landlord that. Jeez, get a f**king life! Move on! Surely you have something better to do with your time than keep on banging on about the same thing! Have a w*nk and relax.

And the Johnson rod is perpendicular to the walax angle.

Well, it's doing the right thing for the share price at the mo, so all's good as far as I'm concerned.

He is indeed a deeply sad little man.

I disagree with that. There are plenty of companies with really good ratings who have clearly got their customer service s**t together and in my view the quality of doc boots is meant to be part of their appeal - they get comfier the long you wear them and arguably look better - but I’m no expert and may well be wrong! If the fashionistas like them and that is what is driving sales so be it, just so long as they sell!