i fear that CF does not have much business acumen. As an engineer he may be good at digging holes in the ground but as a negotiating, wheeler dealer businessman he lacks credibility. If this project is ever going to succeed, he needs to be replaced......... SOONER THAN LATER.
Other alternatives are letting out the site to local authorities to dump their surplus rubbish.
That is correct. The board should be down the tunnel with their picks and shovels. As for doling out shareholders' money for good causes and inflating salaries , that could have waited till a guaranteed earned income was established. The Treasury plays the same little game with our taxes only on a more extravagant basis with its stupid Cameron/Geldorf foreign aid budget of 1.7 % of GNP.
Common sense is a very valuable commodity but in very short supply nowadays. It is very easy to be generous with other peoples' money. Be aware of this when voting next month.
I do appreciate the dividends from Persimmon.
To turn the price upwards we need the announcement of a suitable partner, not the short way to take a quick trip downwards to Australia via Whitby.
In the sixties a group of Basque tourists decided to visit London. One of the highlights of the tour was a visit to Harrods.
This firm had a marvellous rotating front door, first of its kind. The Basques had never seen anything like this before so they stood there in amazement, watching the door operating and swinging round while customers disappeared smoothly inside.
Their guide gave the signal that they could enter the store. They, to a man, took a mad rush towards it and the door kept spinning around hurling them mercilessly into the oncoming traffic outside, almost like being hit with a giant cricket bat. Many of them were badly injured being randomly thrown out onto a busy London street .
The lesson from the story is as follows, 'DO NOT PLACE ALL YOUR BASQUES IN ONE EGGSIT'
Well he said more about it than C F who must have scarpered off to a monastery in Tibet.
Silence is no longer golden.
It has cost us thousands of pounds of hard earned money.
Results of petition are out but not given to people who signed.
Held privately by company.
Where is the RNS?
CF should be making use of national TV. The achievements of his firm getting so far should be exploited and publicised. Workers doing the dangerous work on the site should be asked for their opinions. Are their jobs of no importance?
The only people who are aware of this government let-down, seem to be the investors and a few local newspapers. it should be broadcast throughout the country so that all can understand how our stupid Treasury works.
It has 13 billion of free cash to waste on foreign aid, much more than the rest of the European countries. This should be cut back and used to help local industry.
It is a howling disgrace.
This MP report demonstrates how useless politicians really are . Though your MP seems to have had an impressive career his judgement is sadly deficient. Maybe he had his brain removed before he went to the Treasury.
This is required if you want to fit in with the rest of the spongeheads.
All they have to do is guarantee the bond. Share price will recover and the massive mole hole will deepen.
What is being made clear is that the north of England is being starved of government funds. Nobody seems to be taking this seriously. Our woolly politicians are so engrossed in' BREAK-****' that northern interests are been thrown to the winds. It is a pity that we do not have an alternative political party with with any slight modicum of common sense, a commodity which is in very short supply nowadays.
Surely York council could organise a protest march to the treasury in traditional Yorkist costumes with banners etc. The trade unions seem to be asleep on this matter. There has to be a groundswell of support somewhere in the north of England for the survival of this project. You cannot expect CF to fight the battle on his own.
Rally round him and organise a march to London in protest. There should be enough money left in the kitty to fund this.
You need to have a sense of humour, especially if you are losing a lot of money.
Hopefully that will not be the case.
Stuff the strategic review. That is just paperwork.
I/ Re-open the Wars of the Roses
2/ Get the pitchforks, blunderbusses , double-barrelled shotguns out. March an army on London. Occupy the Treasury.
3/ Oust the German House of Windsor and replace it with a descendant of the House of York.
4/ Make York the capital city of England.
5/ Line Buckingham palace railings with the heads of those working in the Treasury.
It's a long time since we have had a good revolution. The system is totally corrupt nowadays and needs to be replaced. Maybe this is the only solution as we are unwittingly giving all our surplus money to African tyrants.
Nice to see that some of you are pushing IAG. I am heavily into it but the annoying factor is the Spanish stealing of part of our dividends especially as we are not Spanish citizens.
However I still think that the POLYHALITE deposit in Yorkshire should be gobbled up by GLEN before the treasury has a chance to review the current petition results.
All seem to have strayed from the point a little. How about bashing MR jAVID and his short sighted policy. If we are going to leave the EU we really need to help our own industries. Partners in this field seem to be rather slow at getting off the ground and springing into action. There should be a lot of loose oil money floating around. A firm like Glencore could do wonders with this supply of polyhalite as it seems to be able to be big in the agriculture business. Let's have some action!
SORRY 20 TON LORRY 'TYPO;
I still think a 20 lorry deposit of farmyard manure outside the front door of the Treasury would be a better idea.
Put a placard on it entitled, 'A present from Yorkshire'
I agree with you. We have the greatest number of noodles supposedly running the country but instead are running the country into the ground. In previous eras we would have had an armed revolution and brought out the guillotine. How a coterie in London can see no further than the Thames basin beats me.
Foreign ownership or partnership is essential if this project is to survive and bear fruit.
It looks like Sirius is about to fall into foreign hands due to the stupidity of our treasury.
This will be a big loss to our EXCHEQUER WHICH WAS NEVER KNOWN TO POSSESS MUCH BRAINS.
So the the treasury cannot support this northern England project because they need to protect taxpayers' money. Yet this coop of headless chickens squanders billions of taxpayers' money on foreign aid.
The north of England should dump tons of manure outside the treasury's front door. They might enjoy the perfume as it suits them perfectly.
Charity begins at home.
Regarding Thomas Cook ,the government could have saved it by putting a small amount of money into it to leap frog onto the cCinese deal which was on the cards. Instead of that it spent a fortune on repatriating stranded travellers which probably cost more.