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Davidspellancy - or we could go to where the divis are paid and live it up. Rich people and companies get round these sorts of obstacles every day. That's how the accountancy firms and banks earn lots of money.

Icecool, I did notice the Government have decided to abandon their earlier assertion that Evraz steel 'might'' be used in Russian tanks. Instead they've gone with the true fact that it goes into Russian railways, and drawn a tenuous link to military activity. As noted, no action against Rishi Sunak's wife, or France and Germany, who've been supplying actual weaponry to Russia, in breach of EU sanctions I think. And of course the EU continues to send Russia almost a billion Euros a day for hydrocarbons. The woke, virtue signalling hypocrisy is off the scale.

I assume Evraz will update shareholders about this, and hopefully disclose how they intend to proceed.

So when are the going to sanction France and Germany for actually selling weapons to Russia? Steel used by the railways in Russia? Come on.

Its curious thats for sure. It might have been a buy thats been worked over several days - the price seemed very resilient yesterday in the face of apparent heavy selling. Hard to believe a sell of that size wouldn't have really cratered the price. But who knows, apart from the client, broker and MMs?

Hope you're okay buddy. It's only money at the end of the day. Health and family are much more important.

Phillip1976, it looks as if there are more buyers than sellers - but that's only what's been disclosed. Who knows what's going on in the background, where notification of trades can be delayed for days. The price action is your one true guide. Maybe peeps are forward selling their placing shares - and the trades won't even be displayed until after the placing is announced. I'm not saying that is happening here - but I've seen it happen on AIM more than once.

Islandgirl, capitalism is about creating wealth by adding value. Printing money is all about Governments abusing fiat currency - actually socialism by the back door if you think about it.

Hi Kaeren

Sorry if you've moved on from this - I've been working all day and just checking in on the bb now. Yes of course Han**** is ultimately responsible for the decisions he took as Minister. But in signing off the multitude of decisions he was required to sign off every day, he would have relied on summary policy briefs provided by civil servants. Did they spell out all the risks? I don't know, but I do know that, on the advice of NHS managers and NHSE they were extremely worried the NHS would simply be overwhelmed and that patients would be dying in hospital corridors. Remember the horrific pictures of just that happening in Italy? They were told several hospitals were on the brink of that here. Hence, a rushed, and in retrospect, ill-thought through policy decision to try and make space in hospital. It's easy to criticise in retrospect. I personally self criticise my decision to invest my money in NCYT now that I can see, in retrospect, that it has lost me money. Smiley face.

Kaeren, I agree the UK Govt have behaved despicably towards the UK testing companies, especially after announcing their policy to build a home grown diagnostic service. But the decision to move the elderly out of NHS hospitals into care homes was driven by NHS managers demanding that this was done to free up bed space for the expected tidal wave of incoming covid cases. And also to move NHS bed blockers into the local authority funded social care system - an issue which has bedevilled the NHS for decades, and which they seized the opportunity to swing in their favour. It's important to know where the decision came from, and why. Incidentally, the NHS had a strong case on bed blocking 20 years ago, but since then they have seen their funding increase significantly - and at the cost of local government which has not received anywhere near comparable uplifts. This is the guts of political decisions on resource allocation - there is no unlimited magic money tree.
Sorry for sounding off.

A good day to buy in. So I did.

Anyone care to speculate on the value of EMEs remaining assets ex-Jade?

Just a grand's worth, and bottom feeding I know.

Now is the time to distribute the cash pile to shareholders.

Capitalism works just fine, Beardozer, although it can be brutal. Government money printing since the financial crash, which then grew exponentially during the pandemic, has nothing to do with capitalism, which prefers the state small, not overweening, as it is now. Throw in decades worth of deluded energy policy, and I think its fair to say that It's another fine mess State Intervention's got us into.

Maybe Jolyn Maughan, head of Good Law Project, is filling his boots with abdx

GM not FM, doh

In criticising FM it is worth remembering that the Novacyt share price was under 15p a share at the start of 2020, just over 2 years ago, and the company was debt laden. If you held then and didn't sell on the mad spike, you'd still have a ten bagger, and a company that has undergone an amazing transformation. Having said that, you should be sitting on at least a twenty bagger. But the wild swings in the share price are down to private investors, not GM. If you bought during the euphoric rise, you can either take it on the chin, sell, and learn not to get spiked, or hunker down and wait for the recovery.

If Evraz deserves to be suspended because it's steel 'may' have been used in Russian tanks I presume the UK Government is even now preparing to embargo all trade and impose onerous sanctions on all countries that have supplied actual weaponry to Russia, not to mention funding the Russian war machine by continuing to buy vast quantities of Russian hydrocarbons. Yes, I'm thinking of France and Germany - I mean, fair's fair, right?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10745115/France-Germany-sold-230million-military-hardware-including-bombs-missiles-Moscow.html

WG818 ignores the fact that over the last few years the increasingly hysterical green loons have been in the ascendant. The Luddites and Captain Swing would have been over the moon at their efforts to return us to a prelapsarian, pre industrial Tolkeinesque rural agrarian fantasy. Now that harsh reality has intruded, we are seeing a once in a generation restructuring of the European hydrocarbons market. And although Angus has not shone through the lean years, by pure serendipity it finds itself in the right place at the right time. I'm sure the old adage 'make hay while the sun shines' will resonate with you WG, Mirasol et al, harking back as it does to your preferred time predating the machine age when life was a long drudge of endless hard labour, while hungry and cold.