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Have a safe Xmas one 'n' all.

Viaro ... !

Thanks for your advice NI .... lol

Yet another, £502k ...... :-)

"Anyone feel this might not jump up on the Brexit announcement?..."

Mr Market is fearing 'Covid-21' and the need for another vaccine imo

Unless the Gov come out and state the new variants will still be covered by existing vaccines then the market jitters will still prevail.

aimo

Probably be a small deal with debt ... the market can then re-evaluate the companies MCap. That will give the Institutions an opportunity to enter closer to IPO .... The larger David Dickinson real deal/s will follow Q3/4 2021 into 2022.

Then again AA has always surprised the market to the upside.

aimo

Yep, fruit 'n' veg .... fish, still closed until the French agree !!

Half day for all .... hooray !

Just hope all those millions of doses the UK ordered don't have to be binned for the newly tweaked Covid-21 vaccine.

I know so many that see their job as 'living off the state'. No matter what it takes, they will find ways to use the system. After all why work when you can sit at home, smoking and drinking watch sky sport and other dubious material on their latest TV, while their unmarried partner of several children by different fathers have their nails and hair done. Once pubs re-open trading in stolen gear can re-commence for that little bit of extra cash to supplement the disability allowance and the cash in hand jobs.
Work ethic, community, compassion and honesty are but a few values that the UK, in general has long, long given up on .... 'every man for themselves' ..... hence why we are in this mess atm, and I don't just mean Covid running wild once more.

ATB & IMO

Locked box for us would need to be 31/12/19 ...... :-)

Interesting bit for me :

“The transaction is based on a ‘locked box’ economic date of 31 March 2019 and is subject to regulatory approval and partner consent,” said SSE.

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/investors/information-for-shareholders/financial-calendar.html

Dick,

Agree, however, who's to say that Hardy's et al aren't happy to sell ..... everyone has their own exit in mind, although circumstances change and whereas >200p may have been the goal, 160p could as easily be now. The world is an extraordinary different place to that of 12 months ago! As you correctly pointed out about voting % needed to carry a t/o resolution, thereby you would only need maybe 2 of the top 4 holders, along with the likes of BP / Polar / Hargreaves / Janus and you have the votes needed. All of whom btw, would show a handsome profit. One factor that I keep coming back to in my mind, is our BoD are no longer the Spring chickens they used to be !

Any sale MUST leave something for the new guy if you want a good price ... atm we have our 66% increase in attributable BKR revenue and Columbus with near-term drivers being R3 and Brexit. So will the trigger be pulled once R3 / Brexit outcomes have been made clear. That said, as the days / weeks / months go by, the closer SQZ come to the 100% BKR receivables (major driver) the less likely a t/o vote will be successful, hence my thoughts are now or never (within next month or so) for any potential suitor ..... other than that more than happy to see ACW 2017 BKR transformational deal come to fruition and let SQZ get on with driving the business forward.

atb

Any t/o will more than likely be funded via $ .... so weak £ vs $ all adds to making SQZ a more tempting acquisition.

I have no doubt, given the last 10 months that our board have been busy defending our situation, but now is the time to either make a deal to grow SQZ or call it a day and agree that sale.

aimo

Well this unexpected weakness has certainly added another dimension to the urgency imo.

130p a little weak I would say Upomega, but who knows. I do know at this given point ~160p would have my vote.

atb

Half of my immediate inlaws have already had their first dose last week (Pfizer) ..... next one early Jan. So I can confirm things are moving on the ground.

atb

France still happy to sell us their electricity though I see ..... switch them off I say, they want a trade war, lets do one ..... oh btw, hands off our crabs and fish too.

"Just vaccinate every man and his dog asap.."

Don't forget the Mink's too .....

Think its nailed on that the gov will pull all the stops out now to get the whole of UK vaccinated at lightening speed ..... no two ways about it, atm its our only hope of salvaging something from this mess. EU will want us the sell our soul for sure ... will we agree to their trade deal terms or do a full Brexit .... the latter for sure the more difficult route but neither is going to be easy.
atb

Duff does make me laugh ..... as if he will be OK should the future pan-out as he says ...... he will be begging for food, water and shelter like the rest of us. Oh, forgot, he's already got a nuclear shelter stocked with 10 years of provisions ... lol

See the German market is 2.5% down against FTSE of 1% ....hummmm !!!

With borders shut and the variant running 'wild' .... the UK trade deal is firmly in the NO DEAL camp atm imo. EU are using the covid variant as a bargaining chip, nothing more imo .... albeit, a rather a large chip .

atb

Only answer I'm afraid ... the gov will announce early next week that the program will be accelerated, with the Oxford getting the green light.

aimo