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.

Industrial policy and discontent

In 1971 a new Conservative government under Edward Heath pledged to tackle union power, and passed the Industrial Relations Act. This act outlawed the closed shop, made ballots before strikes compulsory and set up an Industrial Relations Court to judge cases where unions were supposed to have broken an agreement. The Act was challenged by unions, who saw it as a restriction of their freedom to negotiate. Some employers also criticised it.

Following Heath's policy of trying to keep wages and inflation down, in January 1972 a national coal strike began. The National Coal Board offered the miners an 8 per cent rise, but the miners rejected it. Bad weather helped their cause, and soon the country was faced with electricity cuts. The miners showed great unity, and by using flying pickets (men who moved from one site to another) they were able to strangle the movement of coal to power stations. After six weeks the miners had won a complete victory: they squeezed over £116 million pounds from their employers and the average miner's earnings rose between 17 and 24 per cent.

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Remember to pay your insurance fees.

Now that they seem to have got rid of the resident drone from Gatwick maybe they could help us get rid of ours?

Snap..when you off then?

Dry and should not be shaken.

Spoke too soon the drones are back.

Terrorists could bring the whole system to a grinding halt...drones are the future battle-warriors....make no mistake about that...the more mankind develops robots and such ; the more dangerous it could become because of accessibility to the technology by all !....

HMV in administration

Stick it on the HMV thread that is.

Last post there was April 2013

I know but it's still the HMV thread.

This thread is for any topic and I'm happy to post it here.

Oh for petes sake George it’s not always about what the individual wants, that’s one reason why individual Company threads are set up and not just one very long one.

If anyone fresh to the board or someone has an interest in a particular Company they can find most of the previous news in one place.

Calm down Stan, it's not like the only place you'll see that HMV is in administration is on the HMV thread, it'll be all over the news.

Retail rents far too high. I expect a crash for property companies like Land Securities et al.

I suggest a duel at dawn.

I got a nice pair of pistols for sale.

You can stand at twenty paces with Manuel in between you as arbitrator.

The first one to hit him can have an ice-cream.


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The first day for a long time I have a portfolio completely blue.

Must check my specs.

Fred, agree that for a change we got a very good day!! Indeed all blue except for goodl old Biome Technologies (ex Stanelco -dirty word that is) that at least has not lost any further grounds today!!! about 3000% increase required for that one I believe..

Stop arguing George and just do it... now there’s a good Tory, gosh what have I just said 😃

Stan,

Has George died?

If not there is no reason to apologise.