Member Info for JohnNth

@Cashola...I recall in 2008 they were offered just that by Peter Mandelson but unions turned it down. CWU wanted to stay in govt hands..end of and sponge off taxpayer year in year out, but the incoming Tory government had different ideas and privatisation followed.

@Broch...think you may be dreaming here. People have had up to the teeth with CWU holding public to ransom, especially run up to xmas each year. And as for government, should IDS go into administration, they'll only be interested in protecting the letter side of operations, and parcels can take the running jump as this is well catered for by competitors.
I very much hope the membership accepts the deal and we can move on. IDS is doing miracles overseas and it can do the same at home. IMO IDS is the next DHL where workers can prosper alongside the company through share incentive schemes etc. However, I feel this can only happen with a scaled down CWU role within RM and minus Dave Ward who has let the membership down badly.
I'm feeling optimistic for the first time for a very long time.

@ND...I know its the wrong board, but THANK GOD for that. I have a few RMG/IDS stock and about time CWU saw sense to agree. I thought it was heading the same way as the old British Leyland I keep hearing about.

Then we have big-baloney who have absolutely no clue on the matrix surrounding market for gold, no clue on company fundamentals, no clue on financial markets in general, have taken no position on the company, dreaming of POLY going sub £2, repeatedly proven wrong and pulled up for pedalling lies, dispensing with advice hoping someone out there is listening. Coming few weeks will see end to all that.

Crimea was part of Russia before Soviet Union was formed.

Bytheway, I don't believe Russia should own Crimea or Donbas, but feel they were forced to take back Crimea in 2014 after designs by US and NATO to build a warm water naval port at Sevastopol in Crimea. Russia did not give Crimea to Ukraine so that they can then go away, join NATO and allow an enemy naval port in Sevastopol.

Think you're once again proving to be out of depth here as you demonstrate repeatedly. I don't bother responding most of the time and let you be the king of the ignorants like chipppyjo!

Compare this to Alsaka which was sold by Russia to US 150 years ago for approx $7m. Contract valid as US paid $7m consideration.

Simple...agreement/contract invalid due to absence of quid pro quo; means the ownership did not pass to Ukraine in the first place.

What also doesn't hold in law is a contract without the quid pro quo. As for Crimea, there was no quid pro quo from Ukraine to Russia. This is why we have token consideration in many contracts eg. peppercorn rent or £1 purchase price etc.

Absolutely smack on. Zelensky wants to win back lost land due to his incompetency, and US wants to fight Russia to the last Ukranian; using ordinary Ukranians as poker chips.
Both sides have sacrificed a lot so feels the need to show something for it. Russia have the captured land and wants to negotiate, whilst Ukraine doesn't want to negotiate from a position of weakness.
Gulf between sides is simply too wide to bridge and so the madness continues.

@ND "Im going with around the 280-285 mark" this looks very conservative

I do know a prediction of sub $2 is horse manure.

True and that is why I've said it is highly unlikely. The threat of nukes goes both ways, but threat is bigger if you think you can come off second worst, which I feel Russia always thinks cos of its land mass.

Also loss of faith/dependence on US$ and EURO due to its weaponisation and impending decline in US$ which will aceelerate with OPEC dumping petrodollar. This will start once MBS 'formally' takes helm from his father King Salman in Saudi Arabia; he would not want to do that just yet knowing US's past record of intervening to install favourable regimes/successors.
Further, the rise of China threatens the very way of life in the US who will increasingly have to come to terms with balancing its books. Only way they can avoid this is to fight a war with China, win the war and break China up in many pieces/countries...which is highly unlikely, and so the friction will continue between the two for a good few years providing continuous support for gold going forward.

It seems rogue rampers are out in force again this morning; or have they come to the funeral?

@Hexam...your long list looks more like itinerary on the road to execution. You too have been ramping up CINE in recent months, so should go away and hang your head in shame.

@StanleyPro..."Cineworld has bankruptcy process, not lenders. The lenders have not lost any money, so far they've been on the receiving end. Moreover, the lenders are using company's income to pay the lawyers who are defending their interests. Only the shareholders who helped to buy Regal have got nothing and have not been represented by anyone because we have no money and equity left."
What world are you living in? Lenders agreed conditions with CINE when lending money, whereas shareholders accepted CINE's terms in buying it's shares. Lenders gets a fixed sum on their lending, whereas shareholders gets to keep more and more of what CINE makes, if it makes any money that is. If you didn't want to take risk, then you should've not bought CINE's shares. You knew what was coming but chose to bury your head in the ground. Now stop moaning and go to bed.

BB...make specific points instead of general babble so we can try address them. I've noticed you have tendency to not to address/counter argument, and instead resort to either personal abuse or just general rubbish which has no bearing on the subject matter. It proves you do not have grasp of the issues.

@jedclampit "maid, your still at it."

Gone like a fart in the wind mate

"Anyone still waiting for sub 200p to buy in haha."

Yes there is...
clue: he wears Y Fronts