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Scotland’s notional deficit stood at £12.6bn or 7% of GDP, including North Sea oil revenues, compared with the UK’s total £23.5bn deficit, which includes Scotland’s figure.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/21/scotland-2018-deficit-higher-than-uk-as-a-whole-last-year

I see another darling of the liberal lefty brigade has fell off his pedestal.
Good ol' Justin Trudeau now on his third blackface incident, oops.
p.s. almost forgot, wonder if this will affect the SP in the morning. :-)

Well debate or argument it doesn't really matter on here snige, most of it gets deleted anyway.

I've traveled to every region in Italy except Sardinia, more than I have in the UK, love it.
I must say there is some truth in trickys comment. My luggage never arrived on a business trip to Pesaro, and was never recovered.
Sometime later I read about the roof of the lost property office collapsed in Bologna airport under the weight of luggage that the thieving gits had pilfered.

I've stayed away from offering my two penny's worth of late as too many posts are being removed.
There's been some good debates of late.
Just saying.

"If everyone contributed 3 days a week to the core of a good life - energy production, food production, researching happiness, healthcare and healthy living - then everyone could spend three days indulging in their own specific hobbies."

You must be on a different planet L_Y, or haven't you heard, most peeps have to work for a living.

Lagarde was purely a political appointment, it's not like she has the attributes for a central banker.
There's no ECB independence, they can all sit around the table together and decide how they can get out of the impending doom.
I just wonder who they will blame.
Probably the UK if we can get a clean break.

He ain't left much for Christine.
Can't wait for the fallout, I know the UK won't escape but the remoaners may see the error of their ways.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hit-for-six-the-eurozone-economy-s-problems-gj9bdkhvp

Roll up, Mario's circus will be leaving town shortly. Tune in before 1 pm today for his last swan song, don't miss it.

Recession what recession!

Fears of a UK recession easing on Monday as new data showed better than expected economic growth in July.

The UK economy grew by 0.3% between June and July, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Economists had forecast month-on-month growth of 0.1%, up from 0% in June.
The data suggests the UK could be on track to escape a recession.
GDP should surge in August, when car plants did not down tools as usual for annual maintenance, because producers had shifted their shutdowns to April to minimise the potential costs of a no-deal Brexit after the original deadline.

These are decent figures in spite of all the doomsters, it must be the UK inevitably of leaving the EU.

You never know but the frogs may be our saviours, who'd have thought it.

France declared that it, as well as the European Union, will not allow Britain to have an extension beyond the 31 October Brexit deadline.

In an interview with Europe 1 radio, France’s foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said: “It’s very worrying.
We are not going to do (extend) this every three months.”

The Labour Party is saying that it doesn't want to accede to the Prime Minister's request to call a General Election because it first wants to ensure that a No Deal Brexit is permanently removed from the table.

But another reason has emerged this week - the party is simply not ready for an election. There are 263 seats across the country where Labour has yet to select its Parliamentary candidate - including 62 constituencies in the South East region.

Yesterday Labour Party members received an email from the party's head office urging them to put themselves forward for selection to one of the many vacant seats without a selected candidate.

"I'm a remainer with 5 grands worth of Lloyd's shares".
What has the number of shares you own got to do with anything Holly1964?
Does that make your post anymore valued?
If you believe that then there are many on here who's opinions are worth many times yours, myself included.

If this message board was Lloyds specific I doubt there would be a dozen posts a day, but it's not its Lloyds related and that bumps the total up considerably.
Plus it's the weekend and anything goes, btw the markets closed.

Even in defeat Gina Miller puts a positive spin on her case being rejected, just because they have told her she can appeal.
It's already been thrown out in Scotland, seems some can't take no for an answer, just like all the moaning remainers.

Wonder if Corbyn will attend Mugabe's funeral, after all these Marxist tend to stick together.
Probably not at this point in time but I expect secretly he is/was a supporter.

People don't want to hear your opinion. They want to hear their opinion, coming out of your mouth.

I've found this is nearly always the case, especially when you're down the juicer.
Talking about the pub, in my book alcohol is a great leveler.

Askhole, a person who constantly asked for advice, yet always does the opposite of what you told them.
As opposed to an A..hole of which there are a few on here (they probably don't know who they are).
Just saying.

It's already been expensive for Lloyds JB, what, over £20 billion to-date and the divi still well covered.
Lloyds is forecast to have a capital surplus at the end of the year of between £1.9bn-£2.4bn, which would theoretically be available to fund further distributions to shareholders, either by way of share buy-backs or special dividends.
My money is with Lloyds rather than Clydesdale especially with their SP down over 20% today.
Mind you saying that, it might be worth a punt right now.

Shares in Britain's Clydesdale Bank (L:CYBGC) tumbled by a fifth today, after the lender made a fresh 300-450 million pounds provision to settle mis-selling claims linked to Britain's most expensive consumer banking scandal.
The lender, also owns the Yorkshire and Virgin Money, analysts said the additional provision could put Clydesdale's future dividends at risk.

This wouldn't happen with Lloyds.

Despite all the recent shenanigans
services are still holding up well +50.6