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Asperger Patriotism is about supporting your country all the time and only your Government when it deserves it. Theresa May's call for patriotism is more about being focused against the EU rather than helping ourselves and the nation.

mick A poignant epitaph to all the brave Irishmen who died preserving the British Empire during world war one. For the survivors who returned home, instead of being treated as war heroes they were treated as common criminals.

The futility of war - when will we ever learn?

Asperger. Real Patriotism is a willingness to challenge the Government of the day when it is wrong !

In today's political and cultural climate we live in a divided Brexit Britain.

Wids. A home goal for Trump tariffs. China no longer need American farmers to feed itself. China can easily find other countries to buy agricultural produce from. They may have lost the Chinese valuable agricutural export market forever.

Bruce. Italy is still firmly on a disastrous and ruinous fiscal path. the idea of an introduction of a parallel currency (lira) to run alongside the Euro is a complete none- starter and will only exacerbate Italy's fiscal decline further.

Agree the EU have extremely deep - rooted problems on both the economic and political front and has answers to neither of them.

Oxo. Failure to reach a positive outcome to the brexit negotiations resulting in a ' No - Deal ' hard Brexit could have serious implications for Sterling denominated assets and especially the GBP pound, which may be destined to trade below parity against the Euro for years to come.

The latest round of staff cuts at the bank have now lowered staff numbers to half what they were before the 2008 financial crash. A total of 71000 employees have now lost their jobs at the bank.

However 2000 jobs are expected to be created as part of AHOs £3 billion pound programme to boost the digtal transformation of the bank. There will be no let up in the pace of this technological change and innovation to retail and commercial banking, and will soon become totally unrecognisable as we know it today.

Lloyds Irish loan book portfolio was sold to Barclays for a cash consideration of approximately £4 billion pounds. The transaction will generate about 25 basis points of CET1 upon completion no later than the end of 2018.

The transaction will also generate a pre - tax loss on the sale of £110 million pounds recognised in the first half company results.

Effective for previous large conventional theater operations but now becoming increasingly obsolete for future military conflicts.
Nanotechnology weapons unmanned systems and cyber warefare will play a huge role in future global conflicts.

American company share buy backs continues to take place on a unprecedented scale due to the Trump corporate tax cuts and a relatively strong US economy. A positive move for shareholder value, at the expense of the hard-pressed American taxpayer.

Digitalisation is already changing the traditional retail - banking business model. If Lloyds are to progress further into new markets products and sevices, digitalisation and fintech technology will remain the most important core issue facing Lloyds banking Group over the next few years.

Forget about GE, plenty of FTSE 100 high quality blue- chip dividend paying companies have fallen from grace in recent years and are now dinosaurs, because they have failed to adapt and innovate in a fast moving business environment resulting in business failure.

Perfectly understandable why these two banks have been selected for shorting. Challenger Banks and Fintechs are still an untested banking business model in times of economic crisis, and still need to cleary demonstrate to investors about how they are preparing and positioning themselves for any sharp Brexit related economic downturn that may unfold in the event of a no - deal Brexit.

The EBAs latest 2018 stress testing methodology and the metric templates applied, lack total creditbility and consistency in comparison to previous stress testing exercises and contribute little to the overall assessment of systemic risk posed to UK Banks.

If Lloyds are to maintain its position as the UKs number one Digital Bank and keep one step ahead of its rivals, it will come with a hefty price tag of around £3 Billion pounds over the next three years to complete the successful digital transformation of the bank, representing more than the entire amount of money invested in the UK Fintech Sector last year alone.

Censorship and political correctness continues to rear its ugly head in the UK. The metropolitan political and cultural elite are now the UKs new pariah class.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, without it there can be no modern world.

I am not an advocate of the averaging down strategy. Often the best decision may be to sell out altogether of a particular trading position, take a small loss before it becomes a big loss and move on to the the next trade.

A bullish and forward looking assessment issued by George Culmer to coincide with him stepping down as Chief Financial Officer at the Bank, financial markets will continue to remain very bearish and ignore the positives on Lloyds until a realistic Brexit - deal is firmly laid on the table.

Troajan. Corporate tax cuts, widening trade deficit, more people living below the breadline, low wage growth that is being wiped out entirely by inflation. Welcome to Trump's America !.

Right and correct decision by the High Court to take. Although Barclays still faces other legal and regulatory issues related to the 2008 highly controversial fundraising exercise with Qatar. At the very least unlike Lloyds and RBS, they avoided having to go cap in hand to the UK taxpayer for bailout funds.