I am interested to hear any opinions about the proposed Royal Mail floatation. Will it remain a croc and sink or will it open at a premium and fly?

lol !

fred is a leading light of the board's resident griping, grizzling and whingeing panel ......

it'll never be proved, but it is said that the institutions would have backed away had the price been any higher than 360 (or whatever it was) ..... should their bluff have been called, and if the offer had then had only lukewarm support, what reaction from his nibs then?

Cyners said......."fred is very good at criticising and griping" .............ends...... what and your not???????????????????????????????????????

GF.

He doesn't like salt in his wounds.


8-)

LOL, or his foreskin.


Wait on a minute is he jewish. (no offence meant)

i am disgusted by your anti-semitic slur! :-))

btw, never try grated ginger root or "deep heat"

cynic "sticks and stones etc" you can't change them they will always be bigots.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.

hali - you don't REALLY think i was offended surely?

not at all but it is necessary to take the "reptiles" on occasionally.

Getting back to the share price. What a good end to the week. I expected to see a drop from £5 but it powered through with the Big Boys seemingly intent on mopping up the PI sells.

I suppose a probable entrance into the FT100 is driving the trackers to buy early also the property portfolio and some time down the road a possible bid by the likes of DT must also be in play.

The strike? Who cares if my junk post, final demands and speeding tickets arrive a little later!

Hal.

Let them float away on the breeze.

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Martini,

I have a gut feeling that the price will drop over next few months.

May revisit when all the shouting has settled.

Also, have bet that market will drop on Monday.

But it was a nice little earner.

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But the government miss-priced it IPO.

It was a Balls up.

fred screeching from the roof top as usual, but there have been a couple of interesting articles in the last few days re this pricing issue ..... fred should go away and read them before being so predictably, and not necessarily accurately judgmental

fred - as you are so often keen on saying, DYOR!

Manuel,

I can see that you are blinded by allegiance to your conning leaders. (Or, maybe, something else.)

The tories are incompetent and yet they tell you they are the party for business.

I wonder what was sold to the Chinese.

Bye the way have a look at below and DYOH about their Chinese management techniques in these areas.







Mind the sums are small compared with the their probable cost of colonisation of London especially and in England.

Far from a balls up as you say Fred . If the shares were £10 you would have blamed DC or someone in the government. DC tried to increase the offer price but the institutions objected and would not have it.

Nightmare.

No, wouldn't have bought them.

And I don't think it should have been sold.

Bugger the city, you may enjoy it.

The coalition is trying to bluster itself out of its mistakes with a blister defence.

I fed up with "denationalised" and "private industry" being cap in hand and bleating to the government to be bailed out when the have scraped the barrel and paying themselves exorbitant "management fees" and failing at what they are said to be good at.

There is a large group off people paying for the incompetence of this government and a small group profiting by their policies.

Also, fed up with this government providing larger and larger troughs to its friends and bleating on about inherited woes.

To have a bloody minded cantankerous minister cost a the country £500000, when anybody in their right mind would have realised he had overstepped the mark and apologise, with the probability that both sides would have laughed and the incident forgotten, shows the arrogance of the present administration and its dissociation with the public.

Well it could not carry on in the state it was in. Where was the injected investment badly needed going to come from ? China lol .It will be will have to stand on its own two feet now and investors will invest if the management turn it around.

Nightmares,

Bullshit.


Firstly, I think the company was and had turned itself around and was/is profitable

Secondly, if the UK can afford and unnecessary aircraft carrier, I am sure that the state it could if wished sort out require upgrading of plant and systems of the Mail to make it an efficient system.

What it needed was better management and probably a more pragmatic work force.

One of the steps to doing that may have been Shareholding by employees with built in selling period restrictions and a consistent approach by management and work force.

Royal Mail's £10bn pension deficit ? lol

Ps.

It seems to many that Georgie boy and cohorts are doing, is flogging off more of the silver to cover up the increasing UK debt and at the same time is pilfering some of the proceeds for mate in the city.

I can see the same approach is going to happen within the Health Service with of course the beneficial effect of Lansley's costly reorganisation and the effect of The Hunt's magical touch.