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Precarious times these at Bradford and Bingley, in my opinion it would only take a few grannies waving their passbooks to sink this bank.

Perhaps you should do an alarmist piece as the main item on ´óÏó´«Ã½ news at ten and see if you could generate another run. Might be best to wait until tomorrow though as The Apprentice your fired is on ´óÏó´«Ã½2 tonight.

If the bank is sinking it will sink itself.

Thank you for an interesting piece: some clarity is welcome in a situation where we are too often caught between the ostriches and the headless chickens (two breeds that seem inexorably compelled to comment on your articles!).

If only you could steer clear of American Spanish slang and a seemingly endless parade of daft synonyms for money...

I hear a while ago Mr Bradford and Mr Bingley lost their hats.
Now it sounds as though they have lost their shirts.
What price mutuality?

Doubt very much if the Brits will counter offer--they know only too well what they are getting themselves into. Does TPG?

For someone to inject capital at the market rate, you would have to be assuming that the new capital can be put to use earning the same risk adjusted return as the existing capital. Given that this is a defensive move to shore up the solvency/liquidity position, rather than to invest in new profitable business, it is not strange that someone injecting capital would only do this at a discount to the existing market value.

My posts are being bounced - why ?

There seems to be an automatic word blocker on this website

I mentioned that Nominee Account holders Shares may be being lent without their knowledge to their ultimate loss.

I also said the Brokers could be open to legal action if the Shareholders who hold Nominee Accounts lost out due to Share Price falls caused by Short Selling and Stock lending.

Several words automatically blocked - interesting - and hard to have a proper debate !

I tried posting a couple of times too and my submissions just disappeared. I certainly didnt say anything libellous, rude or defamatory. What is it we are not allowed to say?

I do find it hard to believe that this private equity group sees B and B as a potential target.

Other High Street Banks are unlikely to bother going for it, they have their own troubles.

Though a couple of big banks, Barclays and Deutsch have been modest Shareholders for sometime.

Oh well us ordinary folk never get to hear about the big deals first.

Basically this is a market version of "lend us a fiver till payday". Problem is no-one knows when payday is.

A 'number' of pension funds and insurers have contacted you. Could you vague that up a bit more?

Was it 1 or 100?

Why are they contacting you? Could it be that they know you have a track record of recklessly repeating gossip and rumour, thereby attaching the authority of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to the story and helping them achieve their objectives?

Please stop and think about the motives of the people giving you the information before spreading it in your excitable manner.

How I miss the considered analysis of Evan Davis.

In a very democratic way I think they have decided to limit the word-count. Some clot has been submitting ridiculously long comments. Supercalmdown managed to get by with 65 words in post 13. This one is 38 words.

"manifest the cojones"! You made my day. Thank you, Robert.

Hey, I'm glad I took all my money out a fortnight ago.

Remember GEC/Marconi !!!

vanishing posts - a technical problem?

So pithy one-liners are OK?

Why the limit?

Beeb may be concerned that company has issues.

You can buy pound coins for 32p based on December capitalisation, or 63p based on Wednesday share price.

If share price drops to subscription price, you could buy pound coins for a pound. No longer a steal?

Perhaps B and B could allay the fears of their shareholders along these lines?

What about my 32 thousands pounds of hard earned lifetimes savings is it buying contraband Havana cigars down El Paso way.........I and many others who have slaved hard all our lives are ripped off whilst the oafs who have had a good times in the Boardroom with their lavish lunches now get £2 million pay-offs.......Scuttlebuts or another word beginning with an S...

#24 - are you allowed to tell us how you lost your money ?

Apparently the Board of Directors have increased their Shareholdings (according to RNS) considerably yesterday.

So they are putting up some of their own cash.

Doesn't help the ordinary Shareholders.

At this Stage the best thing they can do is hold for the next couple of years.

Eventually things will settle onto an even keel.

So long as there are no more surprises !

Of course most of the ordinary investors have been scared away by the rollercoaster ride of the last six months.

Even the patience of the Pension Funds has been sorely tested.

Again as I said on another post, it all comes down to trust, without it the system won't work.

1) I assume these are previously unissued shares. Surely the shareholders have to agree to a share issue at a General Meeting? They wouldn't agree to something that would dilute their holding in this way, would they.

2) I thought there was a law (or a stock market requirement) that new share issues had FIRST to be offered as a rights issue. Isn't there?

3) How exactly does the sale of new shares to TPG interact with the proffered rights issue?

Can we sue these clots for our losses. We have paid these asses good money , they fix themselves up with bonus payments whilst losing our hard earned savings. Then get paid huge sums of money when they resign, if they were workers they would lose their "dole" for their throwing their hand in. instead they get more of our savings in "compo" to ease their boo hoo for losing their Life of Reilly tickets. Send for Rosepierre he would sought them out...........