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That's your opinion of course Blazing.

But it is a simple phrase to understand, and perhaps your question should have been why those that express it hold that opinion. There are doubtless plenty of reasons why they think it.

Ex divi date was 11/04/19 paid on 23/05/19.

@ Solley1 & NigeCo.

Both are valid points. And from my point of view, I invested here mainly for the divvis. I got in at £1.35 fairly recently. (I like to reinvest them).

Like everyone else, have heard the takeover rumours. I also know these have been dragging on for quite some time.

If it happens, it happens. If not I'll still continue to hold and collect my divvis & freebies. Maybe we'll all get lucky at some point and LG puts a sensible offer in. Time will tell.

On the plus side, the crash in sp is not a bad thing in my view.

I am a dividend reinvestor so I welcome it, especially as divvi day is almost upon us. If the sp is below my buy in at £1.35, then I've averaged down a bit at no additional cost to me.

Because if our advertising revenues are lower, we simply cannot afford to give it away for free.

I think she's missing a trick though to be fair.

On GMB a short while ago,Piers Morgan spent a good 30 - 35 minutes spouting ball locks about Greggs Vegan Sausage rolls and how $hite they are. As the result of his ramblings, Greggs reported a surge in sales of them. Doubtlessly coining it in. Total cost to Greggs for a good 30 minute advertisement over the course of 3 days? I suspect it to being the region of £0.00

Fast forward to yesterday, Marks &Spencer's turn with their LGBT sandwich. Same BS from Piers Morgan. Approximately 10 -15 minutes of free advertising for them On the house.

So even with a viewing audience plucked out of my imagination of approx 15 million viewers, Marks & Spencer have had free national exposure at our expense, and doubtlessly are going to make a mint out of selling these sandwiches, as Greggs did with those ghastly sausage rolls.

Now a smart business owner should now be thinking about coming out with a product that he/she knows will get right up Morgan's nose, knowing that they are going to get nationwide coverage for his/her business at no cost to them.

We need to up our game, I think.

Feel free to cut your losses and invest elsewhere then if you indeed hold here.

To me it's just a waste of effort buying them back if they are just going to do this. This is our money as shareholders they are wasting. If they insist on throwing our money about wouldn't a special divvi be more palletable?

I'm clearly missing some sort of point here, so I'd be tea please if someone could explain what the point of announcing loads of buybacks if they're just gonna list a $hit load more?

I accept that issuing shares for perks for hard working staff and the suchlime, but wouldn't it be sensible to put those they've bought back into treasury to cover it, or is that too simple?

Piers Morgan has reunited about it for a large chunk of the programme yesterday and this morning. Which I wouldn't mind but Marks & Spencer's have had nearly an hour's free publicity over the last 2 days but come on. If advertising sales have weakened, it makes no sense to give it away for free.

How much we have been paid by Marks & Spencer's for the advert for them over the course of the past 2 days on GMB.

@ idance.

I agree. I was in here a few years ago and sold at just under £2 with a small profit and saw it to up to sell above that. Again if I'd been greedy and held out, I'd have got more, but that said it's almost impossible to correctly guess the top and bottom. If that was easy, we'd all be much better off than we probably are.

I bought back in again approx 2 months ago at £1.35 ish because of the good divvis and reading through she's seems to be well run.

Like others I've seen the comments on this board relating to the takeover rumours. I also know this has been doing the rounds for quite some time and if it happens, it happens. If not I'll be happy to keep collecting & reinvesting my divvis for my freebies.

As per my advice to owls, I will continue to monitor for changes and assess what I need to do accordingly.

Owls

Perhaps you should have offloaded in June 2015 when the sp was at £2.70. Schoolboy error really. Still I guess we've all been there. Greed does often get the better of us. I've made that mistake myself.

Its suprising how quickly one learns that banking a small profit is still a result.

@ Owls.

That's the price you pay for being too lazy to research and assess properly before you invest.

@ LTI.

Re: Lib Dems rise in popularity.

Hi mate. I'd say that this is largely due to areas where most of the populous originally voted remain in the first place would be my guess.

Indeed, as a leave voter myself, I was expecting UKip to do much better than they did.

That said, I did vote ukip, in the absence of For Britain on my ballot paper.

Still. I take some comfort that Lab/Cons lost a few.

Amen, Reverend.

Hi Dallo.

Yes I agree with your points.

As a point of interest, I remember these shares at 20p each many years ago. (2008ish I think around the start of Adam Crozier's Tenure). He did very well turning ITV round to the dizzy heights of £2 but oddly, I didn't fancy it back then. If only I had. Still Hindsight and all that.

I have been in & out of this one a few times myself, and got back in again fairly recently with 3000 shares at £1.35. Happy to hold for the forseeable myself and collect my divvis/free shares.

Unless of course a tasty bid comes in from somewhere.

Cheers

Trent.

Good points Dallo.

But I take a slightly different view of the dip in sp, particularly near or around divvi day. I we it as a good thing. Only because I usually reinvest it and a lower sp is helpful in that respect. But then I guess you have different reasons for holding a different view.

Yes, I agree with fairdealer. And sorry you had a poor experience.

As we all know, a negative experience of left unchallenged can do a lot of reputational damage and depending how bad it is can be difficult to recover from. It's all well and good having the best product on the market, but if there is no one there to deliver it, then it accounts for nothing.

I hope you get a good response, and that the staffing issues are resolved. And quickly.

Sounds like something from a p1ss take from Star Trek.

Anyone remember a reference to Synthohol, a Klingon drink? Lol