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Snige thanks for passing on his comments.No message for him I am sure he is to busy processing deals for his clients through his brokerage.LoLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I`m a stockbroker and I don`t care.
Cheers, at least he`s happy.

Apologies for interfering but I see you are responding to Cateboy whom I have filtered after his second post to me.
My question is simple has he told the one about him being a Stockbroker yet ?
He is more to be pitied than laughed at.I bet he still puts his cheese sandwiches in his briefcase.Sorry but I cannot help myself.
GLA.

Know nothing about Ping AN, what I do know is the Chinese seem to have Dallas Syndrome and want to buy everything.Personally I am sick of it,they run about getting finance and Government permission yet do not have the good grace to lift the telephone and tell our CEO they may have an interest.Their offers are mainly low ball have a load of red tape and have at best a protracted period of haggling if they ever put in an offer.
What they always breed is insecurity and cause consternation.We all know we have an excellent Company with long and established opportunities to grow at a rate more than acceptable to all currently involved.
I have nothing against the Chinese but i wish sometimes they would keep their Kneb out and grow their own businesses.Failing that and their wish to keep face do what all others do and buy a lump of shares through an investment Company.
In reality they will just keep sniffing and making mischief,but I hope they are shown the door quicksmart.

Ned, no problem I am with you a 100%.

Ned i never said otherwise,did I ?

I must say i am surprised by the support i received for my small missive on Buybacks.
Just shows how many see through its nonsense for Lloyds.
How much will the price fall/rise before buybacks are withdrawn.

Nedhammers.
Yes, but lower millions.
Does anybody know how long a maiden Jorc takes?I assume given the area involved quite awhile.

Change will come, the weight is not Lithium it is the battery pack and cell dividors.
Regarding us being slow possibly for once it may be beneficial.As Zanussi say the appliance of science.
Regardless 2.67% blue today I can live with.
GLA

CEO`s in many of the Companies go on tours around the Major Financial Cities giving updates on their businesses and highlighting their opportunities for the future and giving positives as to why they should invest with them.
AHO goes on tours I am sure but what money has he taken.None I hope, for what would he do with it,buybacks?
He and the board have no angle to encourage growth and never came out with a business plan,all that brainpower and Zip.All we have going for us is PPI runs out on 29/08/2019,if not extended.
Close Branches,pay-off staff get rid of Government.Increase interest rates all tried and down the slide we go.The promise of the three year plan was buybacks(failure) digitalise how is that going.
Papers and magazines highlight Lloyds year upon year, all fruitless.
Simply this share is dull as dish water.Give any quality financiers a footsie Company worth £45 BN,loyal shareholders,a p/e of 9 and paying a 5% divi plus buybacks and watch it fly.A CEO gets £6 million plus options and all we get is drop after drop.Stagnation would be a massive jump.
But like me the craic is ninety and I want to see how far they can draw this share down before they are ushered to the door.GHUL.

do seem to ruffle feathers,and nobody gives an inch.Some quote the recent 1.0p rise in divi to1.07p as manna yet few expected any less and most 1.15p.Dividends are not toxic, you can reinvest as I always do or as the great LTI repeats ad nausem sell them.Some say that without buybacks we would be at 52p a share whilst others claim 82p a share and my type would shut up.I would indeed some hope of 82p here, as for it dropping to 52p finger in the air quote,lol.
The facts have been put before you often but discounted,rightly so why read anything you do not understand or worse don`t want to.
To put it simple BUYBACKS have proven they do not work for LLoyds.
I repeat give people the money instead and the Funds Managers would be looking 7.5% return as against 5%, a figure that would give a liquidity they could not ignore.Any BoD that has dragged the share price to 62p from 86p two years + ago would with everything in their favour be kicked out.When did the last Fund Manager increase their holding here?
Even some here told you of the benefits of Bitcoin which has halved in value since.Many spout rubbish because they are wealthy in their own minds only but given a solid Company in which are really invested and they shout hurrah for Buybacks.Ignore the free share options printed for staff and directors and it could benefit in around 10 years, but few have immortality.
GLA,its only money.Oh no its not,its buybacks.

I like Hydrogen myself but does it not have problems being such a light gas in that it requires leak proof containers that are bulky and expenses.I am aware that a Scandanavian Company has a bus fleet and it was great to see the only think dripping from the exhaust was water.Hydrogen fuelled of course.
But lets hope Lithium has its day first,Savile Row deserves to sell some suits.
GLA.

Mick B, Boris and the gang of three were put into Government by May so they would fail.The good Doctor remains as he is a political puppet and will sway as needed.Boris is a Buffoon and has lost any humour he ever had.But parliament has stopped working, laws aren`t passed the Lords fire most things back to the lower house and even the speaker is a repetitive hobbit. This Country can only be saved by a war when we are shown at our best.We need a common enemy to unite us.What did we get an idiot and a coward that split the Country and then ran for cover.
The 650 MP`s are not fit for purpose and those that believe recovery is around the corner or in LALA land.
Buffoon he is but if we had a runoff for a President the likelihood is Boris would win. Shows how far we have fallen and no catch net.

I have quoted SMT three times before as one of my default shares.By default i mean shares what double in growth every 5 years,approxiamately. Dividends are poor but as LTI says sell some if you wish.
That said no BB comes close to this.
ANYBODY that wants to make money here should vote against BUYBACKS and supporting Diectors likewise. Give the promised profits to shareholders.Give us the divi not deception.
Sorry for straying back on Topic.GLA

Joe you could be correct or I could just take a plane and hire a car when i get to a holiday hub.But would the hire car be EV certainly the plane would not.I also wonder if all of the UK decided or to be realistic 5% decided to convert to EV`s where would the power come from.
I don`t know, but I feel we have a long way to go before I find anything that will travel an Autostrada for 5 or 6 hours and take me to the south of Italy.The duracell bunny don`t cut it,but I live in hope.The days of me pushing a car to the next fuel station are alas gone.
Cheers but as fossil prices increase daily and more is used "THE END IS NIGH".

When in Rome do as the Romans do.Is it to much to expect reciprocity from those that are welcomed here?
We have sayings,man to man , woman to woman and face to face.We are suspicious of those that hide their faces, is it out of order for someone entering your home, workplace or who you are greeting to show their face even briefly as a courtesy.No honour is lost by either party and normal covering can be resumed after a few seconds.When abroad my wife will always carry a scarf and dress appropriately if visiting a place of worship and we make a point of speakingin whispers if at all as to not offend.
A buffoon like Boris will always play to the crowd,but if people took life a little less seriously that would be no bad thing.

Firstly thanks for the replies, if only we had a few more like musk nothing seems beyond him and he has a great will to succeed.Says it all when the Chinese see him as the go to man when you want something done.
Probably my way of life is more suited to the dinosaur age, i like to drive and turn at random up some foreign road and meet the locals have a meal and a few jars and a good old natter.That to me is a holiday,stories some good some not so but memories all.
I had read about the Tesla Battery in Auto Express and how car and house running costs had dropped to near Zero.
Told he also is building an all electric Truck factory in the U.S. If only batteries could be made to shrink like computer chips.Probably some Kid designing one as I type, must say I like nitrogen.

Do you feel this is a country of free speech,that anyone can say what they want to whoever they want?
I would not recommend it if you want to stay out of A&E.
Even if we had it go to some Countries and look sideways at some woman and it`s 6 months in the pokey.
Try America. You get pulled over by police and ask why? Result, night in the cells.
Free speech never has and never will exist.To my deep regret.

here bought an fully blown EV not a hybrid.Personally when i go away for a holiday with the wife we do around 3/4000 miles in the car and no EV comes close to my driving needs.
I know electric is the future but 250 mile range does not cut it.That is 3 hours on Autobahn and then if you find a charger free how long do you wait to recharge.
EV`s yes but in future.
No matter recent trend here excellent,long may it continue.

Let her wear a Burka if she wants.
Mick B said it yesterday MP`s all squabbling nobody taking action, parliament a 3 ring Circus.
AS Brexit is Brexit so Boris is Boris.Pick him to play but put him in GOAL.

When did you get married,and why was not invited ?