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Mere coincidence that the press dig up dirt on the eve of a vote as to whether Mr Ashley should be appointed to the board? I think not!!!

More evidence to reject Mike Ashley! If he wants Boohoo assets, make him pay for them! Boohoo performance has been abysmal and SH value has been obliterated, but giving them away is not the solution.

Mike on the sidelines pressuring boohoo to perform is far better for shareholders! If he wants it badly, he will make an offer eventually.

An offer of c.45p - 50p, and its likely his.

Still very skeptical about MA wanting to get his hands on BOO this way. Clear to see what the kamanis are doing with this raise. Definite power struggle.

If MA wants BOO, he will have to pay for it. And he is obviously interested. Shareholders should absolutely vote down MA.

Its not an argument that can ever be proven. How do you know that visitors wouldnt continue to flock to these places if there were no sitting monarch? The palace of versailles dont do too bad without a monarch!

Do you think buckingham palace or windsor castle would become dessolate without a monarchy? Do these buildings simply evaporate? Do they not have any historical or aesthetic value to the tourist? The history is what gives these buildings value, not the incumbents. The history will always remain. The numbers you quote simply cannot be proven at all.

"but the memorandum of understanding exists between the government and the monarch, not vice versa" oh come on, wake up. You cant honestly believe "not vice versa". You think the monarch had no say in drawing up that MOU? I would say the exact opposite; it exists between the monarch and the government, not vice versa.

And lets not get into their voluntary income tax payments on the duchy of lancaster and cornwall, where zero corporation tax is paid. Well, more precisely we cant get into that because both charles and william point blank refuse to disclose the amounts they have voluntarily paid. Wonder why that is? Probably because you and i pay more in income tax than them!

Maybe i shoud write a "memoration of understanding" to HM treasury at my time of passing, outlining my personal definition of what a private asset is and whether it will be taxed or not. Naturally, because i made it, my definition of "private asset" will be very narrow, just leaving the bare minimum crumbs. And of course that will be my good hearted intention. Who knows, maybe ill change my mind further down the line. At least i graciously offered to pay some tax.

What a ridiculous document, and a perverse reminder of how "equal" we all are in this country. Its not even legally binding; just full of "intentions". Its just a MOU that can be twisted and bent until unrecognisable. What is the purpose and point of that post exactly? How is it linked to the comment you quoted?

Dorfan, it would benefit us idealogically where it truly matters. We simply cannot classify ourselves as a true democracy, and the very idea and reality of monarchy endorses inequality, almost condones it. Why should someone through the happenstance of birth and with no noteworthy merit at all yield so much power? Who are they to command such respect above you or I? I may not like the bloke or agree with him, but based on merit, I respect and value Kier Starmer far above them.

The problem is blanchflower, they are not figureheads. This has been proven time and time and time again. They have woven themselves into the fabric of our politics and law. The can and have slapped down legislation that would have been a detriment to them. Again, why do 65-70% of the population think this is okay? What is everybody seeing about them that i am not?

If anyone can give me a logical arguement as to why and how this is okay, in the 21st century, in a so called "democracy", i would love to hear it. And please dont use "good for tourism" in any answer. This has never been proven, and the whole notion that UK tourism would suddenly implode if we became a republic is, quite frankly ridiculous.

One thing me and lokiloo may actually agree upon. The leeches that is the institution of monarchy.

And if you think the queen paid IHT, you have lost the plot. They are exempt if they pass from one monarch to another, which they obviously do except for a few crumbs for PR purposes.

And the crown estate ha. Tell you what, let's see if you or I can get away with setting up such a structure like the "crown estate" and see if we can get away with IHT. The biggest IHT tax wrapper in existence. Public asset? Yeah right, in name only! For all intent and purposes, purely in the hands of the institution. And the taxpayer may recieve 75% of profits, but who pays for the upkeep through grants?

How on earth can this rubbish still exist in a so called democracy. At least the millenials are ambivalent at best towards them. I give them another 50 years and it will be done with once and for all.

I would be careful in jumping straight into bed with MA. Emotions are running high here, shareholders are down a fortune and the current lot are not doing anything to stop this terminal decline so its understandable.

However MA in a CEO position could be dangerous for shareholders here. He will attempt to strategically align boohoo with frasers and no doubt eventually swallowing up BOO for a song. The conflict of interest is too great.

MA is far better for shareholders on the periphery, taking an activist investor role. MA should be forced by shareholders to make a bid if he wants BOO so badly, he could probably get the lot for c.50p anyway.

Indeed we are heading towards a marxist state, bloated public sector cash guzzling monsters in which Starmer will perpetually feed and the population will feel no benefit to....but of course will be picking up the tab.

The blame has to be pointed squarely towards the tories for this. They got cowtowed and browbeaten into liberal agendas in which we will now feel the burn until 2029. Go woke, go broke has never rung truer now in the UK, and the US did not want to follow suit. Que president Trump.

The centre has now been moved so far to the left that people have had enough. The vote for starmer was not down to his prowess; it was a vote of disgust with the tories. Que Nigel Farage.

He now has a massive opportunity here to unite and galvanise the splintered broad spectrum of right wing, just like trump did and expliot Starmers alienation of even very moderate centre right (which are now extremist far right according to him and the left media), and the distrust we now have of the tories to actually change. His base is growing, he has the tories on the ropes and labour are hemorraging support. Now with trump in the white house, he needs to strike. He needs to go over Starmers head and secure us a good deal with trump, and he will be seen as the hero. Stop being a one trick pony and tone down immigrant rhetoric a notch and focus more on economics, law and order and the disgusting state spend, promise to slash state departments and bonfire red tape. Then he has a real chance of galvanising the full right spectrum, becoming a serious contender.

He is not getting new supporters by going on about immigration in which he is already miles ahead, so if he can focus and come up with a solid economic growth plan, become a law and order hardass and torch beaurocracy, he has my vote and no doubt millions of other ex tory votes.

Once the UK digests what Starmer, Lammy and the entire labour party have done to this country's prospects by alienating trump and slandering him, UK stocks are going one way! And that's the opposite (as per usaul) of US stocks.

If Starmer has any sort of sense left, he will throw Lammy under the bus and fire him as a show of good faith and install somebody who hasn't called him a "r4c1st KKK Narzi".

If lammy had the best interests of the country in mind, he would resign and let someone get on with the job who understands trump better.

Khan won't even congratulate trump. So yeah, yet again the UK is fcukked for another 4 years just when the US finally has a pro UK president that may have started to make brexit look a little better, unlike biden who was ambivalent at best.

One of the sole purpose of a leader of a country is to put its citizens first, prioritise its citizens, the passport holders, before any others. When is the last time the UK had a politician who genuinely put its citizens first? So its absolutely right that trump puts america first before anybody else, including us. And thats why he has become president twice. Thats not to then say that we cannot have a great trading relationship with partners. But starmer and lammy have completely fckd that up for us. But this has opened the door wide open for nigel farage to score some huge brownie points and a big home run if he can leverage his personal friendship with trump and act as ambassador for a good deal.

The EU have been so used to freebies from the US and its cash handouts. Look what happened when trump called BS on nato spending, demanding EU countries it pays up or else. Too bloody right the EU should pay up! Why is US responsibility to prop up the entire organisation? The incredulity, and utter cheek of EU to then fire back at trump, sugessting that he is happy to feed them to russia goes to show that the EU has become like a spoilt brat, throwing toys out of the pram because daddy said no more sweets. Germany were the very worst offenders. And guess what....they soon coughed up afterwards! I would have ripped them a new one, went further and demanded back payments! Thats why the EU are terrified of trump! No more sweeties!

Trump is a dealmaker. He wants a fair deal for america and its citizens, and not to be seen as a cash cow to the rest of the world. I also agree that trump does not want wars, and in fact he is the first one that sat down with kim jong un! Thats a massive deal in resoring peace and security to the korean penninsula and the world. But in true trump style, there was a lot of rhetoric and mud slinging beforehand. Sometimes, a little rocket man needs to be called a little rocket man, and to remind despots worldwide that the US "big red button is much bigger, much more powerful and actually works". Now thats strong diplomacy in action.

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Everyone has a right to express an opinion; i cant argue there (although under starmers democracy, people have been thrown in prison for doing so). But the stark hypocrisy of some of these opinions simply cannot go unnoticed and become tainted with some sort of complex that is typical with the british in the thinking that they are the wise and grandiose ones who feel the need to impart their hypocritical and patronising wisdom, and the american population is stupid for electing someone like the evil trump.

Literally every metric, economic or otherwise points directly to the contrary. The USA is booming. Whereas the UK is in terminal decline. Yet we have the audacity to lecture the USA?? But then i hear The USA is a divided nation caused solely by trump and his policies. Ok i say, lets explore the UK. A country where swathes of population are more focused on the streets of distant countries than the decline of their own streets outside their parents house because they can never dream of moving out and affording to buy somewhere. Has everyone here just given up and lost all hope and ambition, so focus turns elsewhere? This increasing bleed into domestic politics of issues far away from our shores indicates a massive underlying division, and is caused by complete and total disenfranchisement of those who have not assimilated properly into the UK due to failed immigration policies, the growing underclass of alienated indiginous who automatically get labelled "far-right" when any concerns are raised and the disenfranchised youth who lack direction and inspiration. I would argue this country is more divided than USA!

But trump is a mean, nasty man i hear in the audience. Well, do you think nice, kind people make good politicians or can stand up to putin, un or jinping? Americans vote pragmatically, we in the UK vote for virtue signalling fools and those in support for "freeing gaza". Top concerns at exit polls in USA...economy and democracy. Top concerns here....freeing gaza, LGBTQHAKSJ++++ rights and virtue singnaling to radical left groups and doing their upmost not to offend. Also tiring to hear "but trump is this, trump is that, trump is a liar, trump is a criminal, trump is blah blah". Everybody knows what and who trump is ffs! But as you so elequantly put it yourself asimpleinvestor, you can leverage politicians to your benefit. Why not vote pragmatically, and use trumps various personality defects/traits/quirks or whatever you wish to call them to your advantage. Thats what the american population did, and i have no doubt the american people will be far more prosperous under trump than harris. The USA owe Europe nothing, so its up to us to grow a backbone and deal with the issue of putin and ween ourself off american support. Trump will provide the EU with some much needed tough love! Macron is the only one that is at least showing promise on that front, making the right noises. Not like other EU leaders have his back though.

Thats why i wont be bogged down in democracy definitions and semantics. At least i am not the only one that sees the irony in a state whose people preach democracy and lambast the democracy of the USA, yet is still in fervent support of an institution like the monarchy where domestic policy is largely influenced by unelected "royals"...and it definitely is influenced by them and has been proven time and time again (black spider memos). Another case of "do as i say, not what i do". I just dont get the country's blind spot for them. Didnt someone say here earlier about trump being a covicted sex offender? lokiloo? How about Andrew, a member of your beloved royal family and epstein? I guess you would argue he was never convicted haha. I guess he just felt generous and gave away an 8 figure settlement out of the goodness of his heart. Or maybe he really was in a pizza joint all along?

Whatever democracy is, the UK certainly isnt it. When i think of democracy, the UK and its citizens really dont enter the equation and has very little right to pass judgement onto countries where presidents are elected without meddling unelected establishment orgainsations like the monarchy.

Full disclosure: i am a staunch republican as monarchy is about as far away from a democracy as you can get.

I agree asimpleinvestor. Yet vast swathes of our country elect our politicians based on what's happening in the middle East! If only we can be more inward looking and have our best interests in mind.

We are trying to be all things but are losing at everything. We are poorer, less happy and have less influence on the global stage than we had 20 years ago. We alienate our allies at every turn. Europe with Brexit who i will never forgive cameron for, and now what starmer has done to trump. We are rapidly becoming a middle income country with no friends.

A trump like character in UK politics would do us no harm. I would say farage but all you hear from him is about immigration and virtually nothing else which gets tiresome after a while. And he has no proper framework installed yet, so several cycles away from becoming an actual contestant.

I'm not getting into the semantics of what democracy is or definitions. Its an argument very few will agree with. A completely pointless argument.

All I am saying is, today feels like a massive win for democracy and the way it has been driven into the ground and the narrative controlled by Liberals. Trump is a breath of fresh air from the usual krap western democracies elect, a much needed balance in the face of the woke onslaught that Is paralysing and immobilising us.

I am sick to death of zombie yes sir, no sir three bags full sir stuffy technocrats who will cower at saying the wrong thing to the wrong group, will not speak their mind and appease those who do not share our values and have no qualms in exterminating us if given the chance.

Trump has Zazz, fizz, blam and other onomatopoeias that starmer and other western leaders could only dream of having, and has the respect of despots and dictators the world over!! Again, the respect that other western leaders can only dream of.

That's a good thing in my mind!

You witnessed an extreme fringe movement on the far right of the republican party. Nothing more, nothing less. Just as we saw the radical left (BLM) smash, Rob, loot and attempt to burn the British flag on the cenotaph, and the radical left openly endorse a tearirist organisation (there's that word again) So what's your point? Yes there are fringe extremists in both sides, well done for your observation.

Okay simeinvestor and eureka1963. These chat forums have something called filters that filter out select words. I didn't think this was necessary because the letters I wrote sounded pretty similar to the word I meant, but here we go.

1) what is the designation of certain Iran backed rebel groups who have seen much open support on the streets of the UK in which starmer has openely turned a blind eye to, hence the nickname two tier kier? They are called t.....ist organisations. Clear enough? Okay let's try another.

2) Who has trump promised to throw out of the USA if certain individuals show affinity towards these prescribed t*****ist groups? Got it yet? I know it's hard for you lefts to believe that such organisations exist, so let's try one more time.

3) when starmer got elected, I had night TERRORs. Its hard to imagine some so inept could exIST.

Please tell me you got it now.

And yes asimpleinvestor, I have high hopes for trump. I expect the end of the war in Ukraine, stability maintained in the middle east and China not to mess about with us re Taiwan. I would say I was also hopeful fro trump to throw us a bone, but starmer has royally stitched us up on that front.

As for starmer, what more could he possibly show us?? This is as good as it gets. Even looking at him I feel light go dimmer, whe world go drearier and my inspiration and ambitions evaporate. A lesser version of Tony blair who was the best Labour leader! He understood the importance of UKs relationship with the USA, and that you stand by friends. Every day that passes, we are becoming less and less relevant. At no point in history can this be felt more than today.

Use your brain as to what it means asimpleinvestor.

Starmer is a no show, vague as mud, a blair shadow puppet. nothing more, nothing less. i still dont get who the guy really is other than really liking freebies and sleepovers. yes he was democratically elected, but does that make it a win for democracy? hell no. Thats democracy shooting itself in the foot which it has done quite frequently as of late. About time the west did something non self-destructive and appoined an actual leader who is not a spineless coward who will not cowtow to the radical left woke "progressives", or as i like to call them, regressives.

Trump will hold onto our collective democratic values more than biden or starmer could ever dream of.

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"Trump will be a great president for the people of the USA! Lucky them, meanwhile we have to put up with the likes of champagne socialists like starmer who is more interested in sympathising with tearirists than standing by our true friends, allies AND OUR OWN CITIZENS. By god we need a trump over here to make the UK great again!"

Over the moon at a trump win, and couldnt be happier for the people of the USA. Its a win for democracy an a win for the west and upholding its values the radical left wokes are determined to undermine. My only grievance is the situation Starmer has single handedly put us in, virtually destroyed our relationship with president Trump before it has even begin by showing complete disdain towerds him. How stupid can an encumbent get justifying his own party canvassing for harris given the fact that it is trump we are talking about, and the very well know fact that Trump is known to hold deep vengeful grudges? He is a f*ing idiot and potentially destroyed our relationship for the next 4 years at least with our greatest ally and friend before we even had a chance! Its not like we can now turn to europe, so we are now stuck between a rock and a hard place, very much alone.

In the eyes of Trump, farage is now the UK PM, and will be a very valuable ambassador for the UK to salvage any sort of relationship. And by god do we need our true friends around us right about now.

Trump will be a great president for the people of the USA! Lucky them, meanwhile we have to put up with the likes of champagne socialists like starmer who is more interested in sympathising with tearirists than standing by our true friends and allies. By god we need a trump over here to make the UK great again!

Absolutely over the moon at a trump win. The world has been saved from the brink. The USA is our greatest, dearest friend and true ally, and we have completely forgotten that with all this utter woke hatred for the west nonsense the west has been inundated with, even sympathising with terrorists more than our own friends. This is far bigger than just trump. But a Trump was desperately needed to stop the west from derailing and to keep what we have created since WW2 in check! He is the only person who can uphold western democracy and values in its current form! The american people absolutely saw this, saw what we were becoming and stood up to it. If only the european population were as smart! Time for europe to now rise up and start realising who our friends are in this world.

The only grievance i have is starmer, and the idiocy he has displayed in not only p155ing off trump and the republican party, but the obvious dislike he has shown towards him....to our greatest and most powerful ally. Starmer has shown more love for terrorists than our friends. Thank goodness we at least have one trump friendly face, farage as a member of parliament, which will act as more of an ambassador for the UK as starmer will!

Now back to the hilarious editorials from the guardian for me. Their woke hopes and dreams, and their vision of what the west should become has just been obliterated and shattered.