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Personally I think the oilers should pay nothing ! ,People invested in Shell BP etc as they knew they were invested in oil and gas etc and people are more than happy to top up at petrol stations and turn up the gas when its cold. .Now oil companies are a play thing for the PM's wife and all the green wok brigade media telling them to spend all profits on fantasy green policies and not put the divi back where it was pre covid .Yet they are still peddling lies in the media how we are getting a massive 4% divi increase failing to say Shell cut the divi by 60% after covid.They never ever mention that.It will take over 10 years at this rate to get our old divi back guys !!!!. .I am surprised they did not relocate their head offices to the cayman islands and tell HMG to stick their wok ideas. It wont work , they bang on about cost of living crisis in the media one minute and tell everyone to break the bank trying to afford an electric car the next ! oh and then tax everyone 25% green tax on their energy bills.Nobody can afford these heat exchangers at £10k plus a pop and I like to see the french or US governments try the same thing in their countrys the riots would never end .Its about time Boris said its all a daft idea, do these green wok things if it makes u feel good else just try and pay your bills as before and enjoy your ICE engines. Rant over all my BP shares now sold and I will sell these with a heavy heart when I break even. Forget never sell shell its now Do sell Shell asap when the green Brigade screw up a companys divi potential for ever and there is no point in holding them any longer !!!

My dividends landed in my bank account this morning on time as usual.In a nut shell I have found over several different shares over several years if you have old fashioned paper share cert you get paid on the day in your bank account no problem .If you have online accounts like halifax etc they make you wait 4 working days before giving you your own money back so they can use it first themselves , I have both and technology certainly is not as good as good old paper share cert.

Sold all my BP today getting tired of being told how much money oilers are making when the divi is only half it was in Jan2020 .Took a position here the divi is much better.Itching to sell all my Shell once the price is right, the never sell shell mantra dont work when the divi is half it was .Hopeing to by a big chunk more here once I sell all my shell .

I think you will find investors like me want the old dividends back , the American oilers paid full dividends during covid and still do , if your getting twice the divi elsewhere you wont go to BP or shell they are being help back by wok gov interference who wont even let them pay the old dividends despite having the funds to do so.The share prices are getting expensive for pension funds and investors that need also the dividends to warrent buying them.Shel and BP are turning into a buy and sell day shares not put away for relible dividend shares they used to be.The days of never sell shell are over thanks to HMG, I will sell all mine once I break even with Shell and get a reasonable return here as one can earn alot more for ones outlay elsewhere now with the derisory dividends.I dont want to but Im forced to by Looney and the wok brigade.

Reading the news you would think all shell share holders are rolling in money and about to get a 300% increase in Dividends today. When is the media ever going to say the share price halved in 2020 the dividend was cut over 60% and is still round about only half its historic levels ?When are they going to say despite what the results are we are going to only get a pathetic 4% increase in Divi and that it may take 10 years at this rate to even return to previous levels of dividend payout.What really gets me BP and shell cut dividends in 2020 but all the us oilers just carried on paying out .The uk FTSE100 companies are constantly being controlled by HMG, told to go green & ****ged off constantly by the wok press.Europe is still taking russian gas why on earth is shell and BP told to surrender for nothing £billions of pounds of assets for nothing ? None of this makes any sense especially when my dividends have halved and im made to look uber rich by the press.

Snap I am selling half my shell to buy LGEN also once they go up a little more ? or maybe just sell half my lloyds bank shares. Its a pain you buy your shares for very good reasons at the time but never thought about Covid , Wok Green issues , Grenfill tower, Russian invasions etc etc etc .I think the days of buying shares and sticking them in a draw for 20 years are over one has to keep buying and selling for dividends trying to stay one step ahead of HMG interference and the latest wok issues. .Labour shadow chancellor has it in big time for shell and BP so an election wont help me .Fingers crossed IMB does not get hit with extra taxes etc in the future.

I think Gove's interference is screwing this share down big time. I bought at 30p years ago and topped up a few more as she rose hopping it would get to £2 + and stay there !. It was down to 3p at one point I believe after the banking crisis so there is no telling where we are going mainly due to HMG meddling and the wok optics of actually paying out decent dividends owed to share holders that keep the company alive.

Well I decided to buy a big chunk of shares here after selling a chunk of BP. Its a dam cheek how HMG are meddling with dividends in lots of companies Not only do they tell BP and shell to give away for nothing Many £billions of assets in Russia despite Germany still taking russian gas ! , the wok press still want more blood because of world fuel prices. They fail to mention the 25% Green tax we are all forced to pay and dont even want ! and they fail to mention Oilers are not the cause of world price rises. All they see is profits which the share holders have not even been handed back and in fact halved. since 2020The only person on a winner is the CEO Looney ( Very Apt Name).Lets hope we dont have a looney running IMB in the future doing HMG bidding..I have seen this with Lloyds bank who have been used as a cash cow to fund the economy along with other banks and fraudulent PPI hyped up big time by Camerons Government. Again Lloyds could of resumed its old dividend recently but failed to do so wasting money on buy backs and vanity projects.I am halving me exposure to oil and just hope the wok press dont blame IMB for all the NHS ills for the last 25 years years and make them pay to finance the massive waste in the NHS. Fingers crossed I am running out of decent divi companies not being meddled with by HMG and the Wok media, I wont even mention TW and the Greenfell tower cladding nonsense now Gove is making all the uk big Builders fund their Wok repair costs whether they even built tower blocks etc or not. There was a lot less interference under the Blare Brown administration than there is now in the markets thats for sure.

Well its nice to see an encouraging explanation for the IMB position. With the fall today I am glad I did not buy a whole lot more just yet. Mind u my BP have crashed also so its ying yang. I am still puzzled why IMB cant make a decent wok electronic cig. Dont most companies just buy the competitors product strip it down to all its component parts and copy the hell out of it as far as the patents allow .China dont even worry about patents ! Any smokers on here use these new e cigs etc just wondered how they really compare to old style fags .

Well I agree, I think I will add to my current holding . My oilers halved their divi in 2020 which the wok press never ever report, they then had an easy chance to just resume the same old traditional divi levels but I feel HMG have forced them to right off billions of assets over Ukraine instead and keep their divis at historic low levels . . I know IMB are also in the wok political spot light but most investors are not charities, if people dont like BP IMB etc etc then dont buy their products etc , is it me or are FTSE companies being carpeted more and more by HMG and being told how to run their companies to the detrement of share holders.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4502026-imperial-brands-massive-benefit-shareholders?msclkid=767bffd7c3c211ecb91ca338d72ed014Not sure how to take this ?, they seem obsessed about the new vap style products etc etc. I see it like nasty oil and gas industry etc everyone talks about electric cars but most people dont want anything to do with them because of the costs and benefits , you can if u want im sticking with what i know and can afford so to speak .. Is IMB doomed or is it like shell and bp they have another 50 years before the wok bregade take over ?.

Thank you Trek I read somewhere around 5.5% yield predicted going forward in 22 which back of a fag packet is around 17p I may be wrong ? so its a case of getting the 21p and deciding whether to stay or go ? They used to say never sell Shell ! I certainly will once I get back into profit ,the divi collapsed and all this green Wok and interference from the government telling BP and Shell to give away many Billions of thir russian assets for free !!! is a step to far especially when Germany and Europe are still importing russian gas ! you cant make it up.I will prob take a small position and wait and see.

Morning and thank you I did read that , I dont smoke or vape so dont know how good myblu is ??? but I suppose my point is does Myblu actrually work what ever market its sold in firstly ? and how good/bad is it compared to the other competitors in the world ? any smokers on here able to advise ?

Cant help thinking our special relationship over the pond is showing its all a load of nonsense in reality.If the US is a major market for Myblu me thinks some brown envelopes by US companies are at work once again to keep IMB out. Im thinking of taking a large position here for the divi but a little nervous if the market will take a dim view on IMB progress in the vape market with the big boys .I fail to see how you can mess up a vape product and fail the us test if its all above board ?. A cig is a cig is a cig just like a vape is a vape surely ?

Is it me or is HMG deliberately screwing over loyal share holders to highlight their own political agendas in most areas of the UK economy ?.We had banks like Lloyds told to do the right thing and give away many Billions to dodgy PPI claimants to buoy up the economy for Cameron and co .Then when that finished the same money was held back from loyal divided holders to yet again buoy up the economy due to PPI. The same with the oil companies etc etc .None of this happened in the USA where banks ,oilers, developers etc etc all paid out full dividends and still do as it is the share holders money not the governments to play with and effect .Now TW is being made to pay towards dodgy developers and suppliers who were allowed to get away with murder using the governments own building regs etc .Fair enough pay for TW developments but not for all the other **** ups in the country just because Grenfell tower is centre stage for the wok media .The latest con is all the companies are carpeted by HMG and told again dont pay out to your share holders dividends in full which they need to live on. If you must pay out use mainly buy backs it looks better in the news on channel 4 ..And what about all the dividends allegedly frozen due to covid and promised to be paid out at a later date ? that has not happened in any companies I have shares in to date I know that .I suggets the money will be stolen from us by means of buy backs none of us ever asked for ! . The only persons that benefits from buy backs normally are company directors on their own bonus schemes !!!.The average jo wants the cash so he can decide what to spend it on !, I would suggest NOT on buybacks etc which might move the sp a few pennies before it falls back anyway the next day. It seems to me HMG have their fingers in most FTSE companies that the wok media want to rant about for their own political agendas , so that Gov can then be seen to be so caring and virtuous and just sod the poor working share holders that need the money to pay their own bills.!!!.Anyway rant over , if the old special dividends etc are not reinstated again soon, & previous withheld dividends accounted for properly then all this wok TW Grenfell tax will be the last straw for loyal share holders i feel.

I have been drawn to this share due to the pending large divi etc like a lot of people. However having suffered the pain of seeing my Shell shares have their dividends halved causing the sp to follow suite over nite I am very wary of how dividends and then sp fall like a brick at times. Even now with record cash flow and oil prices BP and Shell still have not resumed their traditional dividend payments which the wokey press fail to admit when demanding levees on oilers and millionaire share holders which we all are obviously . My point here however is this .How low do we think the new Dividends on SYNT will be going after the next ex divi date ? Will future annual dividends be 30p still or half or even a third of that ? I cant seem to find any opinion in the reports etc although previous divis suggest around 10-15p I would suggest . .That will obviously effect the sp going forward big time and this may go down to 200p as a consequence as shorters and new investors will want to maximise their buys back in on the strength of future divis . . .Any views or opinions appreciated none of us have a crystal ball .

On the assumption Putin may have just grabbed the Shell and BP oil assets etc anyway as retaliation ? HMG may possibly have done us all a favour ??? .With the £25Billion fire sale right off now FORCED lets be honest forced by HMG the oilers will right off billions of pounds of tax HMG would of earned .In effect HMG has shot its self in the foot and Putin picks up billions of Dollars worth of free assets at uk tax payer and share holders expense.I accept lives lost in ukraine are more important than oil assets but what about the billions of pounds of luxury goods we sell to russia.What about all the arms and luxury goods property etc etc we are happy to sell to anybody from around the world where human rights violations have been ignored for decades ! .It is all a bit short term for the cameras if u ask me with not much thought to who will really benefit from these actions ? . Putin cant believe his luck but HMG will shine in the lime light for 5 minutes.Its the same way HMG have interfered behind the scenes with uk banks for years with holding dividends and forced PPI payments all in the name of doing the right thing at share holder expense .Lets hope for a quick cease fire , give Putin his NATO free Ukraine and the Ukrainian people their land back. Who honestly cared if Ukraine ever joined Nato ? only european politicians most Ukrainians did not give a dam if you asked them . .

I have seen this problem mentioned over the years on many many share boards. I have to say most of mine are held as old fashioned paper and they ALWAYS pay on the money first thing in the morning when due .Halifax have a clear policy if you pay away your divis like I also do for some of my later ones. They always make you wait 3 working days after divi date so Friday is your day probably to get paid .I know its annoying but its in their rules ! lets them make some dosh on your money like all banks etc do with bank accounts etc. If you want paying same day stick to paper dividend certificates .