I completely respect your views Kevin but you are painting a rather distorted picture of this :) But then we(the royal we) decided to ignore it :shock: The "royal we" in this case were the majority of members because of the factors set out :o it's ALL right posters saying 'yeah but it's made it all ...

* garindan one thing you highlighted that particularly stuck out for me was the comment regarding members not supporting certain recommendations, which raised a really important issue for me. I think there might be a need to somehow distinguish between what are general comments/discussion and firm ...

As chairman I do need to make decisions and they are not always going to be to the liking of all members. ? And here's me thinking that we are a democracy with an equal vote You've turned the meaning of that one again kevin - I was referring to the fact a decision to call a poll might not be to the...

kevinchess1 wrote:I don't
But i don't see a problem with having cash in the bank
Ideally you would sell at it's peak
but you don't know when that is

Fully agree with that.

I just wanted to add something into the mix on this topic. We also need to consider:

...our current holdings and if it actually makes sense to INCREASE this rather than anything else.

I have some thoughts on the way this system worked and the potential upshot in our case. At the moment we have been building a portfolio. At the time of writing this post (things change so regularly...) my review of our holdings is as follows: - SHRE - I just ignore this one for the moment and it se...

dannyluis wrote:I've just signed up using your code chrisw680

My code is Z1G1S . If anyone wishes to use it please do so.

I thought I would have a go and used the above code. My referral code is:

IZJSG

Members, Hopefully you have read the proposal I set out. There have been comments but nothing specific to change the details. Their has been support from a number of members to take this forward, so here is a poll to decide whether or not we take this step. The poll is open for 7 days but please vot...

Still 3 votes to be cast, minus kevin as he has in effect voted no by not voting :think: If you voted no or didn't vote and wish to share the aspects that stopped you voting yes that would be really helpful. We should be considering all aspects and keeping them to yourself and not sharing (Rich excu...

Out of personal interest I did a bit more number crunching for some club facts, which you might also find interesting: - total share costs (after purchases, sales, stamp and commission fees) -£3201.24 - current share value (as of 10:39 on 07/06/2016) +£3145.34 So based on just the purchase price and...