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Sheltie, agree with all except C as don't believe in technicals. I'll have made c. 35% on my current holding, if vote is YES, and more over last 2 years as I dipped in and out. Sometimes hard not to become attached to a share, in life we can become attached to many inanimate objects, eg a car, house, and even countries !!, because we buy with enthusiasm and belief in our investments, but I accept your point A in an ideal sense !!

Surprised at current price c 575/576p v USD7.75 = 611p currently, 35p difference c. 6% gain if no exch rate change, and expect USD to strengthen before cash payout

20questions, great to hear gains being made. And they say that share investors' gains are passive gains !! We all WORK for our gains, and losses !!, as much as Starmer's so-called "working man" !!

33m ago

17:53

Record number of NATO allies to hit defence spending target

A record number of NATO countries are expected to hit the military alliance's defence spending target this year, its secretary general has said.

In total, more than 20 NATO allies will spend at least 2% of their GDP on defence, Jens Stoltenberg said.

The estimated figure marks a near-fourfold increase from 2021 among the 32 members.

Only six nations were meeting the goal that year, before the war in Ukraine started.

33m ago

17:53

Record number of NATO allies to hit defence spending target

A record number of NATO countries are expected to hit the military alliance's defence spending target this year, its secretary general has said.

In total, more than 20 NATO allies will spend at least 2% of their GDP on defence, Jens Stoltenberg said.

The estimated figure marks a near-fourfold increase from 2021 among the 32 members.

Only six nations were meeting the goal that year, before the war in Ukraine started.

Bobocaca, well done on getting your losses back. We all make mistakes with shares, but I always diversify ( no all eggs in one basket) and never sell at the bottom unless there is no hope at all or I'm using some of the losses to contra gains on other shares. I've had Vodafone and ITV for years and Hold, but I may start selling some to set their losses against other shares' gains. Patience is important also.

Buffa, I'm in same boat as you and voted NO. Saw the price fall today and thought, around the 560p mark, couldn't I make an "easy" c £900 on £10k if I sold another of my shares and bought and held DARK to the TBravo payment date, but also thought suppose the YES vote failed !!

CR888, Poppy won't care, it's all part of business !! Do you think Mitterand cares that he's caused chaos for the EU and financial markets ?!! Collateral damage they call it !!

GS are deluded. Even last week one of Putin's Duma members said on TV that nuking Holland would be a good option to destroy most of Europe's oil and gas which he said was stored there. Ukraine war continues as Russia and Ukraine are still polls apart on any peace plan. Ukraine will fight to the death if necessary. Russian navy ships visiting Cuba, talk about convenient provocative timing !! Taiwan invasian could happen at any time despite what the press says !! The presence of Iranian and North Korean threats continues and is increasing.

Y11-shx, how many shares is that ? If it's an awful lot then I hope a fall to 450p so your purchase boosts us to 500p again !!

Eviking, interesting situation and don't know what to think tbh except wondering has BP's BoD totally "lost the plot" and that it is illegal to retrospectively demand employees to reveal employee relationships outside the scope of what's required under their present employment contracts. It also begs the question " doesn't the BP HR already know the law around employment contracts ?" BP are just asking for information on the relationships, not saying that they must end or one party must leave, but the way in which it is being done begs the question "what type of culture does BP have and how satisfied are BP employees ?" Gotta wonder how some of these managers get to where they are, earning too high salaries, when an ordinary shop assistant or fast food operative would probably have more sense to do a better job with the right opportunity and training !!

AchillesZeno, hope our CEO sorts out the simmering employee GMB Union dispute at the submarine section before it becomes more of a problem. If RR employed more engineers to counter the Overtime Ban I wonder would that make matters worse ? Personally, I think overtime should be an irregular feature of any job, to meet short-term needs, in that it costs more for less output (workers are tired), so having more workers to deal with their increased orders is the way to go anyway.

Yes TerryM1, I think greygeorge essentially loathes himself and then takes it out on everybody else. Thus I've filtered him because it generally takes many years, if ever, for such a person to see through their dark clouds, maybe grey ones in his case. There'll probably be a nasty post from him after this post, my apologies to you all who haven't filtered him, but I won't see anything. I just hope he does gain insight into his loathing asap as life is far too short.

Finley1, I agree with you re the shenanigans done by the West re Ukraine all in the name of so-called Western democracies and keeping Russia at bay. The same went on with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.... Humanity overall is a sad failure unfortunately. "Power corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts Absolutely" !!

GutterSnipe, don't you realise that the 'far right' is close to Nazi ideals, ie Adolf Hitler and colleagues, and are anti-LGBT, anti-Jew, highly nationalistic and very intolerant of other points of view ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

GutterSnipe, don't worry !! I topped up at 230.4p this week, too early with hindsight, but unusual to buy at bottom and sell at top. LGEN's dividend is better than most and the share price will go up again. Investing is for more than the short-term.

CraigJD, "Berenberg cuts Harbour Energy price target to 356 (360) pence - 'buy'''

What is the point of that?"

Often wonder myself, but conclude that thay simply want to have a more recent Rating and to push their Buy maybe.

CR888, you're up late !! Presumably after a very hard day's work reaching out to all your DARK contacts to get them to vote NO ? Mind you, the current price is nearly 30p lower (exch rate converted) than the offered USD7.75 per share so maybe many are voting NO !!?

Apologies for no Capital letters in my last post because the format of the link I copied in changed everything to small letters !!

sullysworld, what do you define as an 'idiot', eg "a person with profound mental ******ation; also an abusive term for a fool" (oxford dictionary) or just someone lacking the responsibility and care for the job ? 99% jobs would not employ an idiot surely ?!! there are driverless metro lines all over the world already - https://www.railway-technology.com/features/around-world-driverless-metro-lines/?cf-view - and japan started theirs in 1981 !! disagree that people can't be changed from "idiot" status to "non-idiot" status as otherwise millions are being wasted every year in rehabilitation areas !! not sure what your motive is in saying "you will probably have left this world by then." because i have no plans at all to go to the moon or mars or anywhere else further afield for many many years !! train drivers are checked also, or at least should be, so no difference there with accountants, engineers, solicitors, etc...unless one is on the wrong train if one worries about death or serious injury !! fortunately, i'm a fatalist anyway, que sera sera, though i generally do the best i can anyway !!

SullysWorld, are you a train driver yourself or connected to one ? Do train drvers have to train / study for 5 or so years nefore they are qualified ? What level of education do they require ? And re an "idiot" driving one's train !!, many transport companies are already replacing human drivers with AI-enabled robots !! And if you really think that lower level qualified Accountants' work is fully, and even adequately, checked ny higher ups and Auditors, then you've never worked in that area !!