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Fresh from its successful pass of the stress test more of Lloyds (LLOY) is going to be sold off by the UK government. As I’ve mentioned, the UK government currently owns around 24% of Lloyds Banking Group, but this figure could be reduced to around 20%.
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Paul
I wonder if we will ever know the true story behind Lloyds eventually paying around 8 Billion quid for a banking group which was on the hook to a secret loan of 25 Billion quid from the treasury. Did Messr’s Blank and Daniels know the true extent of the finances at HBOS? if they did, they should both be in jail now for the utter destruction of Shareholder value in Lloyds, if they didn’t, how were they hoodwinked and by whom, who had hold of the stick, the shitty end of which was grabbed so swiftly by Lloyds Managers, to the detriment of 6 million small shareholders in the Bank.
Six and a half years of pain, it feels like it’s coming to an end, but we’ve felt like this before, the fabled return of the dividend is almost within our grasp, what will the politicians dream up next to snatch it away yet again?