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cuddothisnow - no! do not be duped. There is not an unlimited volume of banking propositions on offer.
Torys in. For those thinking the UK is a good place to do business, we have a unique business on offer for a quick deal.
Once things let up and all seems clear, confidence restored, peeps will ask way, way, way more than the 12 month average.

get suited.

yay :)

so that's why Vern left in a hurry - to top up his tan for 6 months.??

peeps live in cloud cuckoo land.
once all shorts have exited in orderly manner, once a few Q results showing half decend performance, once everything is in order, THEN, a purchaser appears?? get real. Put the City sense of entitlement and the English polite queue syndrome to one side.

Or passed the tipping point in share acquisition.

"May" - garbage - you would pounce at 27 Feb. If someone hasn't made an offer and bought before then.

I'm going for one last hoorah on the 23.12.19

oh course that is your thoughts, you haven't had any other thought but those since you came on here.

istock - i was in AMER, sold (selling) to Geopark for c. £242M with c. 912 MMBO of unrisked prospective resources and 17.8 (1P), 25.6 (2P), 31.9 (3P). I3E "is now targeting a combined 500 million barrels of oil in place on its licences within the Liberator and Serenity structures" with phase I targeting "23MMbbls". We have M/C at £11M. Should be 10x this. Plus, I3E does not have FARC issues ... I suppose it does have Aberdonians looking for a cheap butteries.

HH: are you putting all your best clients on MTRO long? blue horseshoe and all that?

its mr-happy-go-lucky.

*one minute

One dusting white powder from the back seats, the next doubling as a hearse.

HH - do you run a fleet of shaded black Lincoln Continentals?

*shinier (just added that one as a nod to Mrs Hill).

MTRO is bigger, cleaner, more profitable, shineyier, then COOP. Which would you buy?

"Underlying loss before tax1 of £2.2 million in Q3 2019 (Q2 2019: £6.7 million profit) reflecting the impact from actions taken to maintain a resilient balance sheet, including a one-off £2.5 million charge following the £521 million portfolio disposal in July 2019." - https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/MTRO/q3-trading-update-2019-ldxcrtu2zvrzbsp.html

"In the third quarter of this year, COOP reported a pre-tax loss of nearly £119m as it wrestled with payment protection insurance compensation charges and the cost of separating its IT systems from the Co-op Group, its former parent." - https://news.sky.com/story/co-op-bank-investors-court-buyers-as-turnaround-stutters-11889733

"Metro Bank, the revolution in British banking, opens its 69th and 70th stores on Friday 20 & Saturday 21 September in Solihull and Merry Hill." - https://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/about-us/press-releases/news/metro-bank-celebrates-two-new-stores-in-the-midlands/

"In February 2018 the bank announced that its remaining branch network would be reduced from 95 to 68 branches during April and May 2018" - https://www.verdict.co.uk/retail-banker-international/news/one-4-cooperative-bank-branches-axed-network-shrinks-68-outlets/

buyer wants him 'oooot'.