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Accounts for today's drop.

Having given myself a welcome break from this BB for a number of months (thereby avoiding exposure to the incessant deluge of drivel and bile) I return to find that our resident genetic waste of space has morphed into Union Basher. I am seriously concerned about this individual's mental wellbeing. Such obsessive behaviour is simply not normal. Anyhow his presence is enough for me to wish you all adieu - there are much greener pastures and sunnier climes out there. I'll look in again around Christmas. Best of luck to anyone with an iota of sanity!

God, give me strength. It's utterly incessant, isn't it? See you all in 3 months. I'm giving myself a clean break from this madhouse. Talk about a sylus stuck the groove.

"While you are rejoicing guys how would you feel if the old chap had topped himself? He was down in the dumps with BT.

Nothing nice about this at all."

Bertarm - Relax, the man has been cancelled. That's why his posts have been removed. I have avoided visiting this BB for weeks on end, because he was becoming a one man infestation. There was little in the way of reasoned argument, only incessant emtional vitriol, insults and vile invective. As others have pointed out he will inevitably return, reincarnated, and when he does I shall, once again, stop visiting this BB. In the meantime I'm hoping a semblance of sanity returns to the posters and posts.

Deep joy.

If someone says 'NO BID' it does not infer that they would prefer there not to be a bid. I would love to see a bid, but think it most unlikely. Can't see Drahi mounting one with his indebtedness, whilst my contacts in Bonn believe any attempt to takeover BT would potentially drag them into a political minefield, with no clear outcome in sight. However, it doesn't rule out private equity, but they, like DT, will see any attempt to acquire BT as both politically untenable and unpalatable.

NO BID

I used to read this BB on a daily basis. No more. I don't need to provide a rationale. The reason will be obvious to anyone with an iota of common sense. Adieu.

Happily reinvested, as I have done since Day 1, and will continue to do so.

Better than anticipated inflation figures?

This will go the same way as their foray into bricks and mortar stores. Cash rich, yes, but infallible, no.

Totally concur, Fleccy. It's a non event.

IOT

I'm not sure Ofcom can do anything about the price rises - it's just paying lip service to the rising clamour of cost of living related complaints. After all the deal BT has struck in exchange for accelerating its fibre and 5G roll out (and thereby enhancing telecoms infrastructure across the UK) is set in stone. For Ofcom and the government to renege on that arrangement would expose them to litigation on an industrial scale.

Fleccy "My internet is still working, as I assume yours is, so I wouldn't even notice BT are on strike if it wasn't in the press."

My point exactly. If the internet went down across the board, then, yes, I would argue the strike is having an impact. As it isn't any action being taken is of little or no consequence to the public and business in general. To my mind it doesn't even register a faint flicker on the Richter scale of industrial action. To the strikers 'Best of Luck' with your reduced pay packets. I wish I had the luxury to throw good money away.

PO3C - "Better to hand over 50 quid a month than lose your whole salary. Or don't you understand the plan?"

That's tells me that you have lost all perspective. Let's just say the union manages to cripple BT (unlikely) and force its hand to increase wages/salaries even higher. What do you think will be the outcome of that? Well I can tell you that, quite simply, it will result in a draconian cull of staff numbers to fund the pay increase. You should bear in mind that throughout economic history periods of high inflation have always ended in a recession with jobs being lost en masse. We are heading for one right now and believe you me the recently bouyant labour market will sink like a stone. At the end of the coming recession you will be grateful you still have a job, unless, of course, you have decided to commit hari kari in the interim.

PO3C - "The union need to get smart with this action. Set up a fund and remove key staff from their positions indefinitely and pay them from the fund. Everybody puts 50 quid a month into the fund and works to rule. The public will then know there is a strike."

I'm sure that by adopting this proposed tactic you are pretty much guaranteeing the end of their careers at BT. They may be key, but no-one, at the end of the day, is indispensible. After all life goes on.

"VM & John Malone are there to disrupt incumbent." At the age of 81 I'm not sure that there is too long left for John Malone to disrupt anything. I wish him good health and longevity, but I suspect his powers and energy are diminishing with age. Mine certainly are and I'm 10 years younger than him.

1msn "got to say this a very poor show."

What else did you expect on an XD day?