Melrose Industries Share Discussion Threads

[brexitplus] 25/9/2018 17:52

MW, sorry I wasn’t sitting at my computer waiting for your post. Have been out picking blackberries for a delicious pear and blackberry crumble with custard. And no, I didn’t mistake sheep droppings for blackberries!!! Sorry, sorry, sorry. It must be lonely without Zimmer.

I think you are mistaken. I don’t remember ever predicting anything, other than the little bit of fun at results time. Hope you didn’t take that seriously. As I remember though I won first time, Zimmer horribly wrong, and you didn’t take part. Last time I was wrong and neither you or Zimmer took part.

What else have I predicted?

Seriously though, being pragmatic I know that “share prices can fall as well as rise.” Am I worried by the lack of upward trajectory (word of the month) in the Melrose share price. Of course not.

Finally, re the postings re GKN, Nortek, etc, these are for the benefit of those who either don’t have the time or inclination to go looking for them. They seem to appreciate them all the same. Sorry you don’t.

So time to for you to cosy up to your little chum, Zimmer. You make a lovely couple. Hope you will be happy together.

[brexitplus] 25/9/2018 11:00

Truth hurts.

“Enjoy your day. I'll think I will leave this board alone today if you are not around.” How sweet. True love perhaps!!!

And still no Definitive Guide to Small Company Investing!!!

[minerve] 25/9/2018 10:03

MEANWHILE

Brexit just came over to the Lloyds thread and posted this:

"Over on the MRO BOARD minerve, or Zimmer as I like to call him, says he is 51 and was a hugely successful captain of industry.

I think he is an over 80 former union conveyor who worked in the stores.

Which do you think?"

The guy is a chimp and a constant man-child. He obviously can't rise to anything else.

Permanently filtered, for sure. I have better things to do than deal with this loser in life.

[minerve] 25/9/2018 09:55

Morning MEANWHILE

Enjoy your day. I'll think I will leave this board alone today if you are not around.

Nothing of value here when you are not here.

Getting - the sad little man - is already stalking me over on the Lloyds thread.

I must leave some impression for them to do that, don't you think? LOL

[brexitplus] 25/9/2018 09:36

Rounding up his sheep no doubt.

[meanwhile] 25/9/2018 09:33

Good Morning, Minerve.

I'm out today so the tasks of moron & stooge rehabilitation are in your hands.

[brexitplus] 25/9/2018 07:46

Getting

What have we done to upset that old “sheep shagger” MW?

In future I wish to be known as BrexitPlanA+ in support of Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris and Davis Davis.

Who is this Cable you speak of? Did the Liberals have a conference?

By the way, the champagne trajectory last night was perfect.

Just had a look at the Lloyds board. Yes, Zimmer hammered.

[meanwhile] 24/9/2018 23:56

The ‘sage’ brexit says :-
“Melrose is, and always has, been a company where the share price depends on deals, and currently we are in the pre deal stage re Ergotron and GKN Metallurgy. It is also a company that doesn’t publish much information, hence the flat trajectory.”

What complete rubbish. The flat trajectory has been with us since March 2017. Was the purchase of GKN not a deal? The ‘not much’ information includes 2 final and 2 interim reports. Wonderful.
Think, lad, before you write.

Comma in the wrong place on line one. Take lessons.
Trajectory is the wrong term to use for the shape of this part of the graph.

[meanwhile] 24/9/2018 22:51

The ‘sage’ and his ‘human crutch’ have spoken.
I’ve no idea what they said.

[brexitplus] 24/9/2018 21:36

Getting, you have been well and truly told off by Uncle Zimmer. Naughty boy!!!

[gettingrichslow] 24/9/2018 20:39

Definition of hypocrisy = Minny pleading with B+ not to call him names!

[gettingrichslow] 24/9/2018 20:37

Meanwhile is right about the EU imploding. It's only a matter of time. Hungary will be first out I think. Then Italy. Then it will be like dominos. The far right is rising all over Europe, partly because of Merkel's 'welcome' to two million a few years ago, and I think that has caused unrest which will worsen over next couple of years. Minny can't see it coming but he has poor judgement on all sorts of things from Vince Cable to Anne Stevens and even guessing people's ages and what they do for a living.

[meanwhile] 24/9/2018 20:15

Minerve,

I've not much time to discuss tonight but many have been predicting the fall of the EU long before the referendum. Philosopher John Gray, David Starkey, David Owen to name few.

[brexitplus] 24/9/2018 18:44

Zimmer, exactly the same reason as you keep telling me to walk my dog.

[minerve] 24/9/2018 18:16

brexit

Maybe sheep farming can turnaround post Brexit WTO tariffs, but it will not be done overnight. Many farms will go bust and families will lose their livelihoods in the interim. And for what? What real gain? I don't see any gain worth the interim losses.

[minerve] 24/9/2018 18:13

Why don't you refer to me as Minerve? It isn't difficult. You really are a man child who struggles to come to terms with his own predicament. Who are you trying to impress because it isn't working.

[brexitplus] 24/9/2018 18:07

Zimmer, sheep farmers in New Zealand overcame a similar problem and are doing famously.

[brexitplus] 24/9/2018 18:06

MW, I don’t need to persuade myself or anyone else I’m still alive. If I lived in Wales I would probably feel differently.

[minerve] 24/9/2018 18:02

Do you think they would be predicting said downfall if the UK was staying within the EU? Both the US and Russia have vested interests in seeing the EU fail. Our interests are more aligned with the EU than Russia or the US. When the EU executes its trade agreement with Japan it will create the world's largest free trade area. I don't see the EU collapsing politically or financially. I actually see it getting stronger once the UK leaves. We will become marginalised and will have our work cut out trying to get back even to Base 1.

Within your farming community, especially in Wales, I thought you would be Remain voters. Sheep farming is going to be decimated if we end up on WTO tariffs. I don't see the UK government coming up with any quick patches for farmers. They will just have to join the line for government handouts.

I respect your view MEANWHILE as a Leaver. You are not typical of a Leave voter IMO.

[meanwhile] 24/9/2018 17:54

Minerve,

I understand all your concerns on brexit, but have you considered that if/when the EU collapses politically or financially, at some time in the future, (as a good number of learned historians & economists predict), we will be in a much better position if we're out.

[meanwhile] 24/9/2018 17:32

"Oysters, sea bass and champagne for lunch in jolly old Bristol. More champers tonight. And the sun shone all day. Oh, what a great world we live in."

These are certainly the words of a man trying to persuade himself, and others, that he's still alive.