RE: re: Buybacks to restart?24 Sep 2018 13:30
snige can't just ignore it as a distant threat, I believe it's prudent to keep abreast of policies being discussed now.
I find it hard to believe that individual share ownership has fallen since the 70's even including company schemes. There weren't any government share incentives (PEPs / Stocks and share ISAs) and it was extremely difficult to trade shares in those days, and let's face it for the majority of the 70s we had Harold Wilson and sunny Jim Callaghan to contend with. We all know how that ended, the winter of discontent... waste piling up in the street, bodies piling up in the morgue, train drivers on strike, nurses threatening, ambulance drivers on strike, lorry drivers calling in the army for essential supplies, state of emergency, I could go on.
All this after they had to call in the IMF for an emergency loan.
Remember the headlines 'crisis what crisis' people should be made aware of how Labour left the country in the 70s and given half a chance they will do it again.
It took Margret Thatcher to sort it all out, funny how history does seem to repeat itself.
Nobody had any money for share ownership in those days, wonder where he pulls his so-called facts from?
It may be a proposal and as you say years away, but let us hope they never get the chance to enact their bluster like I said yesterday anybody who supports Labour must have a brain the size of a split pea, well that's my opinion.
As for a check on the government of the day and selling a good idea to the people, back in the 70s Labour couldn't even sell a good idea to the unions let alone the people.
Some Labour peeps on here keep posting about the Conservatives getting 'in bed' with the DUP they either have short memories, in denial or are too young.
Just to refresh your memory....
Back then Labour was a minority government backed up by the Liberals and even got support from the Ulster Unionists by granting them extra seats in Northern Ireland. As time went on they tried everything to cling to power, they proposed Devolution in Scotland and through the vote lost the support of the SNP.
All they want is a general election, power at any costs.
This IMO is a foreground threat more than the ''Tories falling out next week'' if this lot get a chance of government given time you will probably agree with me, or as some on here continue to support them from a foreign land.