Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

hAYSTACK, TAKE NOTE, HES A GOOD MATE OF MINE.



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October 11, 2013 (12:24 pm)

The usual silly party line.

Dont be silly the Tory party roots hate tax cheaters.

gf
I seem to remember a recent post saying you had squelched me for life.

gf, I'm not sure why you keep banging on about the stats. The CR thread has been on the go now since 2007 whereas the Top Trader's thread has only been going since late 2011 and I think I did say words to the effect that it was the most popular thread "over the years".

And here's a quote to savour from a poster who obviously thinks he's respected -
"Youl find a lot more people have respect for you." How many posters on this bulletin board do you think have any respect for you gf?

And what was it you were predicting on 3rd October about a possible market crash - that people should start selling their shares before the "stampede".

Haystack - LOL. He's just too predictable! Fell for that one with his hook & line. How many times have you been squelched and un-squelched?

"Haystack 11 Oct 2013 15:44 - 30919 of 30921

gf
I seem to remember a recent post saying you had squelched me for life."


Well sometimes you would appear to be from the "Afterlife".

gf seems to have gone very quiet, perhaps he's choked on his fishfingers and chips, or a white shark has got him by the boll---s at last.:-)

DB4,

HOHOHOHOHOHOHO!

The best or worst joke of the day is Cameron claiming the success of costing the treasury £1 or more billion with the sale of Royal Mail.

11th October 2013 | 14:02

David Cameron: Royal Mail privatisation has got off to a very good start


Does anybody trust him a more with the economy and the NHS going down the pan and cheating the country?

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He must be high on something, which one of his mates is supplying him?

The price set for Royal Mail was set according to best advice. IPOs are always a problem. If the price had been higher then the float may not have been fully subscribed. Even Vince Cable was happy with the price. The Royal Mail is not such a wonderful company anyway. Email is killing snail mail.

Hopefully the newspapers will ignore the Royal Charter on press regulation. We need a free press. The price of that freedom is annoying and upsetting a few people now and then.

Funny how this government is always ducking behind something or other.

I could almost imagine Cameron (a horrible thought) at Eton pointing at others in his class saying "teacher it wasn't me it was them".

The job is to big for him.

I would think he spent his time at Eton skulking behind the bins.

It would have been more appropriate if he had got in one.

Cockup after cockup.

30% 30% 30%.

They picked the values.

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Vince hopes the public will have forgotten about the 30%. in three months,

as I posted on the RMG thread .....

fred - though i suspect the price will stay stable, I could easily be wrong and perhaps it will tumble, but only when things settle down can you make any judgment call on whether or not the shares were underpriced.

in any case, surely it was a better call to make the shares "good value" to ensure that the sale went well, than to take a gamble and to have priced them (with hindsight) at say 425 ...... had they been priced that high, it is likely, though a paradox, that the flotation would have been a flop

Hays.

One needs a free government.

Not one which waits at the garden gate, or meets at the hunt to be told what to do by the Muddies and Rebecca's of this world and hopes they can bribe the "Free Press" into supporting them in return.

The relationship between the tories and the gutter press stinks.

fred - would the labour party be a better entity if it wasn't married (ball and chain) to the unions?

Cynic,.


I guess 30% is fine!!!!!! 8-)

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It didn't have to be sold.

Management was improving and could have been improved more.

It would have been possible with a sensible approach by both management and workforce to come to a "sensible deal" based on increased short and long term profitability.

I will wait and see. My bet there will be a drop back in price after next week, but when NY settles their budget that it will move up to 500 mark.

Labour had a very pally relationship with Murdoch previously. You seem to have endless left wing fantasies.

OBC,

It did need to be sold. It's a crap business which needs massive investment so it can compete in more lucrative sectors. There's no point in being sentimental about it as, hopefully, the new investment will allow it to modernise and prosper.

And the price, and whether or not it's been flogged off cheaply? No, it hasn't been sold off at a cut-price - the premium just goes to show what a good job the guys running the book have done.

Gotta say that I'm not too keen on having Jimmy Saville's head on the new 1st class stamp though.

:o)

If the business does badly then we are lucky to get rid of it. If it does well and makes a profit then we can tax the profits. If you add the money we have for selling it then its win win.