Northern Rock Share Discussion Threads

[scribbler101] 21/9/2008 17:33

DIYDAN - 18 Sep'08 - 14:41 - 13852 of 13864

I think with NR G Brown left it to Darling and it all went wrong.
This time GB fixed it himself. I hope he stays hands on now and sorts out the compensation for shareholders in NR.
That in my view was one of the big problems, when HMG nationalised NR they sent a message to the shorters that any bank can be pulled down by shorting and if the shorters keep pushing they will force the bank out of business what ever the bank says.
This time GB was not prepared to allow shorters to win so he arranged the buy out. Darling could not or would not do that for NR..


It is not too late for AD/GB to punish shorters of NRK. Just give the nod to their farcically overpaid valuer that the right answer is £6 a share and the shorts will burn!

[william-just] 21/9/2008 11:05

Post your view on the shorting fiasco.

[greycioud] 21/9/2008 10:03

Muppets!! NRK brought itself down. The shorters quite rightly had enough savvy to make money out of it.

[p1zzie] 21/9/2008 08:53

ANYBODY any idea if nrk have still been paying the boe debt back over the last month or so?

[get rich quick] 21/9/2008 08:18

Yes, it is nice to see some justice at last. Just thinking about NRK and how the goverment will play this now that some regulations have been removed, be it only short term ( the likes of Lloy and HBOS ) The goalsposts have been moved and so I recon GB/FSA will try and sort out a deal with one of the big banks to take it on, but at what price is anybodies guess. they are trying to broker a deal with BB., according to the Tellegraph ,so I recon this is also on the cards while some doors are open.

[htrocka] 21/9/2008 06:55

it`s a funny old world.....the short sellers that made a mega fortune in bringing down the likes of NRK....are now screaming `foul play`....and have found themselves in the same life boat as the Northern Rock shareholder...THEY NOW KNOW HOW IT FEELS.....ABSOLUTE JUSTCE. AND RIGHTEOUSNESS HAS BEEN VINDICATED.........they were destroyed by their own greed.

[greycioud] 20/9/2008 13:56

bryanmuppet

Does nowt ever sink in with you?

[greycioud] 19/9/2008 15:42

LOL!!!

Muppet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suckers rally. Made plenty though!!!!!

[greycioud] 18/9/2008 14:33

DAN

LLOY did NOT want NRK!! There is an obvious reason. Surely the penny will drop some time Muppet!!

[bargainbob] 18/9/2008 13:51

When you go will you send back
A letter from America?
Take a look up the railtrack
From Miami to Canada

Broke off from my work the other day
I spent the evening thinking about
All the blood that flowed away
Across the ocean to the second chance
I wonder how it got on when it reached the promised land?

I've looked at the ocean
Tried hard to imagine
The way you felt the day you sailed
From Wester Ross to Nova Scotia
We should have held you
We should have told you
But you know our sense of timing
We always wait too long
HBOS no more
Howard no more
Lehmans no more
Northern Rock no more...... etc

I wonder my blood
Will you ever return
To help us kick the life back
To a dying mutual friend
Do we not love her?
Do we not say we love her?
Do we have to roam the world
To prove how much it hurts?

HBOS no more
Howard no more
Lehmans no more
Northern Rock no more......

[diydan] 18/9/2008 13:41

I think with NR G Brown left it to Darling and it all went wrong.
This time GB fixed it himself. I hope he stays hands on now and sorts out the compensation for shareholders in NR.
That in my view was one of the big problems, when HMG nationalised NR they sent a message to the shorters that any bank can be pulled down by shorting and if the shorters keep pushing they will force the bank out of business what ever the bank says.
This time GB was not prepared to allow shorters to win so he arranged the buy out. Darling could not or would not do that for NR..

[coogar] 18/9/2008 13:34

bryanmuppet

There is little comfort in pointing out that in the past I warned you and the rest of your muppet cronies to sell your NRK shares while you still had the chance.

One thing that is almost certain following today's events is that my investment in LLOY shares is now pretty much guaranteed by HMG and therefore safe.

Eat your hearts out muppets LMAO

[greycioud] 18/9/2008 09:22

Bryan u r a complete dork.

[greycioud] 18/9/2008 09:21

LLOY walked away from NRK & did not join Branson in making an offer. The reason is obvious except to the muppets of course!!!!!!!!

[bryan2] 18/9/2008 07:36

There is little comfort in pointing out that in the past I have warned that Mervyn King has been a disaster as the head of the BoE.
Right from the Northern Rock saga last year to yesterdays disastrous forced marriage of LLOY with HBOS he has given the impression of a remote academic with little interest in what goes on all around him.
Gangster speculators have seized on the fact that we have a central bank which is reluctant in the extreme to support the British Banks.
Make no mistake about the it next target will be LLOY/HBOS.
Unless the central bank steps forward and stands behind LLOY/HBOS with full cover for liquidity for as long as it takes then the speculating criminals will win again.
The latest run on HBOS shares started because Mervyn was causing uncertanty about what was to happen to the special liquidity Scheme after October.
The SLS was forced on a very reluctant Mervyn by the Treasury after intense lobbying by the British Banks.
Mervyns position was strengthened in March when the Tory front bench in an attempt to political point score came out in full support of him.

[jaywood] 17/9/2008 21:49

It's shame GB didn't dispense with his scruples as quickly when it was Northern Rock's turn. He and AD hid behind the EU's skirts and used them as an escape class. If they had given Lloyds the guarantees they wanted it would have been cheaper than what they are doing at present at NR, and small shareholdeers would have come out of it better however long it took.

[coogar] 17/9/2008 21:25

bryanmuppet

You've excelled yourself with that last one. Even funnier than your usual standard. Hilarious even. Let me know when you next pay a visit to the real world.

ROFLMFAO