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‘’It beats sop and added to mop creates a cheaper sop.’’
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Hi. Mr.dt. Whilst I certainly do appreciate your positivity and agree that polyhalite has the potential to 'disrupt' the potash market to an extent, I also feel you might find it instructive to review - and perhaps reassess - the accuracy of your statement above.

Kind regards,

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''time to wake up and smell the coffee''
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Covfefe, surely? No?

Cheers,

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You’re most welcome, Gary. If you are the last one down, is there a pub in the vicinity whereby the younger participants can get you all set for when you walk in the door?

Hope you have a great time, enjoy some terrific views and the weather is favourable for you all.

Good luck!

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Hope. The sort of emotion that, rather than pull up the drawbridge and leave myself in splendid isolation, would lead me to prefer to work from the inside in order to be able to mould and shape an objective to better suit my needs.

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‘’they fail to start real negotiations’’
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Good morning, OR. Considering it is we who have decided to leave the union, in an ‘adult’ situation is it not entirely correct that it should be us whom suggest what we want from our decision - rather than wait for the other members to draw up for us the terms of our leaving for us? That’s hardly ‘taking back control’ is it! And since it has taken our divided government over two years since the referendum to draw up a set of conclusions anything like being able to be agreed (two senior Cabinet jobs later), I’d say it’s a bit much so suggest that it is the other members duty to ‘’start real negotiations’’.

Further, in the ‘adult’ negotiations you envisage, wouldn’t it be somewhat more conducive to productive negotiations if participants desisted from using unnecessarily inflammatory rhetoric such as ‘roll over’, when clearly neither side would be realistically expecting any such thing?

Cheers,

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There's absolutely no chance a no deal scenario is already priced in. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, a bull market is anticipating a sensible outcome that will minimise disruption to the economy as much as possible. A no deal scenario would cause absolute chaos — from the potential for food and medicine shortages to flights being grounded. On the trade front, without regulatory cooperation some sectors could lose their rights to operate, with areas such as financial services badly hit and intellectual property rules stymied. Further, those sectors not caught up in a regulatory nightmare will find exports to the EU would automatically be subject to the EU’s common external tariff; with all that entails.

No, rest assured an Armageddon scenario is not priced in whatsoever. No doubt a cause of much regret is that all this self inflicted harm was entirely avoidable. Anyone who voted leave without factoring in the political administration involved in untangling 40 years of cooperation and harmonisation - with all the attendant potential for chaos involved - either did so without deliberating thoroughly before coming to a decision, or worse, didn’t consider such a situation quite worthy enough when compared to their very own swivel eyed wet dream.

Cheers,

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''including many of us who have taken the early risk since pre-planning permission, are IMHO hoping the BOD oft-stated objective of an all-debt Stage 2 will be delivered''
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Damn straight.

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Good morning, NE. I'd concur entirely with Cranleigh and the reasons he elucidated. By no means least, the fact that Hancock won’t have risked a penny until a huge portion of risk has been accounted for, and even then they’ll be acquiring equity for a sum that is at least at a 40% discount to the prevailing market price.

Nice terms if you can get 'em.

Cheers,

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Heralding the troubles we now see facing the British steel industry, SSI collapsed in late 2015 with the loss of over 2000 jobs in a region desperately in need of then. The industry had complained for many years of onerous business taxes that it claimed discouraged investment. Further, amid calls for support to secure jobs, our government demurred. However, they did offer an aid package of "up to £80m" available for those affected. In the face of Chinese pressure on steel prices, Cameron's Tories ruled out any state intervention at the plant and, in doing so, faced accusations from some MPs that whilst it was apparently ok to bail out bankers, the same level of support was not there for blue collar industries.

With that in mind, is it conceivable (even with this dysfunctional government) that the opportunity to secure thousands of well paid jobs for many decades to come - and at the very same location so many were lost - not to mention win some much needed political capital should be allowed to pass by? And not for want of any direct investment either, rather simply for providing a guarantee for which the Treasury will receive interest?

That would be signal a whole new level of incompetence to me. And as such, today’s news further underscores ST2 acquiring that ‘’essential’’ guarantee. All good stuff.

Regards,

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''and just sticlick with people like milo and myosotis who don't judge.''
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Fair enough, I guess. You'll forgive me (I hope) if I were to observe that, from an entirely unnecessary defensive perspective, you've completely misjudged me however. Certainly the content of my post anyway. Ho hum.

Good luck to you though.

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''I would welcome fund raising through a discounted share offering''
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I bloody well wouldn’t. I've already been diluted by well over 2000% since I first invested and, quite frankly, after backing this company through the riskiest early years - with all that entailed - I've pretty much had enough of seeing my share in the business continually dwindle.

No thankee very much, Chris. I'll take the straight debt option we've repeatedly been assured of if you don't mind.

Cheers,

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''is something I am in an agreeance to''
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Agreeance, eh? Blimey... I can’t help but wonder how long it would take for someone in a spin or something, to charge me with being pretentious were I to drop a pearler like that?

Cheers,

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Hi, JH. Not really so funny, tbh. There's a clue in the ''5 minutes after close'' part of your sentence.

Cheers,

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''But as always the market makers will decide''
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Erm... nope. No they won’t Alan. We're a FTSE250 company traded on SETS. Market Makers - or Retail Service Providers as they are now named - haven't been calling the shots here for years. Sorry.

Regards,

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''look at the share today you rampers and hang your heads in shame.''
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If you should really believe that there is a moral equivalence between someone who holds a share and endorses its prospects, and another who ultimately believes in that share's prospects also, yet conspires imaginary negatives with the design it might lead others to sell and thus lower the price before buying well... you're as hilarious as you are disingenuous fella.

To my mind at least, it is you whom should hang his head in shame. Why do you persist in diminishing yourself so?

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''What's the point of posting the days closing sp EVERY day?'' ..... Well, it'd kinda defeat the object to do it only intermittently don'tcha think? per ardua ad astra

Has she noticed?

I think a few naysayers - not to say idle speculators - would be well served by stepping back a little and taking in some perspective. Global potash demand is projected to be circa 65 mmtpa in 2021. Sirius with their novel new product are hoping to gatecrash that market - initially with a supply of 10mmtpa before then ramping up to 20mmtpa. If anyone on this board thinks that is a simple process, sorry but you're deluded. Or unresearched. Yes this deal is for 350k mtpa. A few would be well served imo understanding exactly what that means. Cheers, per ardua ad astra

''Not on any other basis.'' ..... Perhaps the very same basis you were referring to earlier as a timescale, John. No? per ardua ad astra

''Are we doing any with medicinal cannabis?'' ..... An interesting question. And I'd certainly be intrigued by the results if we were. Not only does C. Sativa require a pretty constant K level (N higher in vegetative stage and P higher during flowering), but - particularly under Metal Halide and HPS lights - can be rather sensitive to high chloride levels; causing dry, brittle leaf margins which eventually desiccate and become unable to support growth. C. Sativa also seems to have a quite high sulphur requirement with reasonable demand for magnesium also. As such, it strikes me that as part of a balanced fertilisation programme, Poly4 might well have a not inconsiderable part to play for anyone looking to grow such a crop organically in soil (smoother, better balanced taste). Furthermore, whilst hydroponic systems do not invariably tend to be considered organic, it is worth noting that a Potassium Magnesium Sulfate K2Mg(SO4)2 blend is highly soluble, albeit slowly. Don't ask how I know any of this.🤫 per ardua ad astra