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What "tasks"? A few shareholders were forced to complain to external bodies only after prolonged efforts in private to get a meaningful response out of Ashman were met with total disengagement. There is only one person responsible and that's Ashman. In a public company, you can't behave like an unaccountable prima donna not expect there to be consequences.

By "weaponised", you must mean asking legitimate and civil questions to which Ashman has no good answers. He keeps saying at every opportunity that shareholders trying to get answers to their legitimate, civil questions are disruptive. All he needs to do is answer where he can instead of waging war: there is no other remedy.

Obsisian, speaking of literary classics, have you read Molière's work? The pious games you and Eldric play are straight out of 'Tartuffe'. Worth a read.

It's a long shot but maybe the IMC delay is down to the new independent director not letting Ashman dig himself and the company into an ever-deepening hole. I did get a nice email from her this week promising that she would review the governance complaints in detail; but words are cheap of course.

It's the old schoolteacher retort: "If the child who threw chewing gum at me doesn't own up, the whole class is getting detention tonight." But it is bound to backfire with grown-ups who own your company and pay your wages.

Obsisian, these old fingers can't type at that speed, sadly. I was responding to FriedmanSowell's post before Eldric's posts appeared.

FWIW, I was calling SOH out on SP (as an observer) long before the penny dropped for TW. And I was calling the Lemming out as Ashman's long-winded stooge long before TW's big bust-up with him. He seemed incapable of asking the incisive questions that most of us wanted answered, and far too willing to accept whatever answer Ashman fed him rather than risk a penetrating follow-up question. And on the rare occasions when Ashman was in useful flow, Eldric always seemed to jump in and switch the discussion to safer waters. For me, too much time in the interviews I saw was filled by Eldric's unnecessary ramblings/theories, leaving not enough time for Ashman to speak. In short, I think he was trying to make himself the star of the show.

But Eldric is a self-styled genius who doesn't take kindly to constructive criticism, hence he sends his troops out to try to wreck other forums. He was deluded to think he would be able to preserve his "shareholders' champion" persona by encouraging Ashman to remove the re-election resolutions from the AGM agenda; or perhaps he is simply lacking in self-awareness. I see too many signs in him of the immature BBM mentality which has spread here and elsewhere. But presumably his subscribers are of like mind so none of that matters as long as no-one else gets hurt. I'm not even sure what his qualifications are for styling himself the way he does. His trade appears to be repairing one-armed bandits, which I'm told, he is still licensed to do by the Gambling Commission.

I would happily ignore the man (except when he or his hit squad infiltrate this forum to make trouble); but that is the last thing he wants. He thrives on conflict, needs to be part of the conversation and throws his toys out of his pram frequently in petulant attempts to raise his profile.

He won't even let his war of words with TW fade into history - despite having allegedly unsubscribed from SP. To this day, his ramblings - and those of his artificial psycho-pet - are filled with obsessive attacks on TW. And he seems to be oblivious to the fact that no-one cares. Perhaps they are just useful fillers in between occasional stock commentaries.

"I do hope Shychap isn't blushing"

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Obsisian, what on earth do you imagine I might be blushing about? Your flight of fancy is so obviously the invention of a floundering amateur that only four of your cult colleagues could pluck up the courage to give it a Like. In case I missed them, please help me out by pointing to the *facts* in your stream of consciousness which might make me blush.

All I could find were figments of your tortured imagination. Surely you have at least one genuine incriminating quote from my posts/comments/letters/search results which proves that your scribbling is based on some research? You have had long enough to find something.

Does he report back to Ashman after the market closes? "Great progress today – really nailed him with that road safety campaigner dirt."

Belugawhale, is someone paying you to make a complete ass of yourself? That's the only possible explanation.

What tosh, belugawhale. You need to grow up because you just look silly. If I was in the least bovvered to do that, I would only have to use the Special Ops ploy of copying and pasting a shedload of my previous posts so that the offending post shifts onto page 2 and obscurity. But I'm not bovvered in the least by a desperate stream of fantasy nonsense which only succeeds in exposing a good old boy for his road safety campaigning work for his community. The only possible relevance is that if that good old boy were posting here, he would likely be doing so to help this community too.

I couldn't find anything else in Obsisian's demented diatribe which made any sense at all. And strangely, no mention anywhere of the main issue which is Ashman's manipulation of the AGM agenda with Eldric's support so as to disenfranchise every single shareholder.

Did I miss something?

Sold over 5m - now down to 10.5m and could be going all the way.

Bad timing? Or good timing? Or just not happy with Ashman, Hunt and their lack of corporate governance?

PGlancy, may I suggest for the sake of this board that you and the rest of Eldric's special ops team restrict yourselves to proper/factual dirt on me, if you ever manage to find any, instead of constantly raking over the dying embers of your pathetic insults to date.

I have been really disappointed that your combined sleuthing for weeks/months has come up with SFA. If you have no ammo, why not just give the troops a well earned rest?

Shreksdonkey, initially, I thought that was his chosen alias here but now it's just in the spirit of his frequent misrepresentations of my name – and the daily distortions of my name here, by you and others. Not that I give a fig – and it never stops me from addressing posters I reply to here by their correct chosen name. I wouldn't lose any more sleep about it.

And based on past form, I wouldn't put too much faith in Eldric's claimed unravelling of Ashman's ambiguities because a lot of the "clarifications" and "insights" turn out to be misleading. and many a subscriber must have been caught out on the resulting temporary SP spikes.

Man down.

The mercenaries must have retreated to the far north to await reinforcements and a new assault plan.

Sharecast: "Annual profits at Taylor Wimpey look set to narrowly miss expectations, the housebuilder confirmed on Thursday. Updating on trading on the year to 31 December, the FTSE 250 firm said UK home completions, excluding joint ventures, were in the middle of its guidance range at 10,614, up from 9,972 a year earlier. However, operating profits were slated to come in around £420m, up on last year's £416.2m but below the £424m forecast."

ROFL. Why don't you do your own dirty work, kitchentowel? Be sure to report back.

Btw, what's your view on Eldric's advice to Ashman to make the directors unaccountable to shareholders at the AGM? Do you feel it was right to disenfranchise all shareholders just because I criticised the Lemming interviewing abilities? Take your time answering.

"Elric posted to T w that the suggestion put to Sa was to frustrate Simon Chapman. He nailed it."

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But it was an irresponsible suggestion if just to spite me. Withdraw all shareholders' right to vote because he can't stand being criticised? And he still claims to be the shareholders' champion? He must be at least 40 years younger than he looks. He certainly nailed a great deal of ongoing criticism and flak. Bearing in mind that the re-election resolutions would have been most unlikely to remove anyone from their cosy office, I suggest that Eldric – and Ashman – made the wrong decision and for the wrong reason. It would have been much more peaceful without him seriously overstepping the line… and exposing his true colours in the process.

It doesn't say much for Ashman's judgement either. Maybe that explains the high turnover of staff there.

Greenas1953, why do you keep self-harming? Use the filter.

Shreksdonkey, none of the people you mention is anything to do with me. I don't know them and have never spoken to them. I fear someone is feeding you a line about the major shareholders encouraging Ashman to change the resolutions. I can attest to the fact that our biggest shareholder and my neighbour has never had any form of communication with Ashman – and that I know more about SBTX than he does.

I wish you profit here but the size of your shareholding – or mine – doesn't matter. I do advise you not to be fooled by any fabricated nonsense you may hear from any quarter. Stick to the facts, if you can find them, and try not to help others to muddy the waters. You have every right to be unconcerned about the issues which matter to me of course but if you want to debate them, use facts not fiction.