Shares I won’t touch

[Peterdev]

Interesting thread hopefully.
Here goes.
Currys.
Why?
Diabolical customer service when following up complaints.
Staff in a local and large branch to us always appear Uninterested in their customers. They also try and sell items that the staff glean commission on.

 

[Essexyellows]

Agreed with Currys/PCWorld whatever they are called this week...

Anything Vegan or Chemically created "meat". Yes "Beyond Meat" I`m looking at you.

Stop shipping plant fibre 3/4 of the way around the planet, adding chemicals & dye to it to make it look and taste like "meat" just buy meat you saps.

 

[Peterdev]

I also think United Utilities now as well. They’re not only responsible for pollution of the rivers in Witney and elsewhere, but are trying to prevent any legal actions to be taken against them.
I also fundamentally disagree with banking shares. Rob the customers on lending and deposits.
I don’t usually favour windfall taxes….for them I would make an exception

 

[Essexyellows]

Have to disagree on banks - been some nice growth despite everything.
If you say banks/utilities then what about fossil fuel like Shell etc?
I`m not adverse to a windfall tax on banks, fuel or utilities to be fair but sometimes you just have to realise it won`t happen, hold your nose and share the profit/growth.

 

[Peterdev]

Taxes on banks would claw back some of the help they were given many years ago.
Agree it won’t happen certainly whilst Boris is in charge.
Putting a levy on fuel companies would still mean Sky high fuel bills with less likelihood of a reduction for customers later.

 

[Essexyellows]

Taxes on banks would claw back some of the help they were given many years ago.
Agree it won’t happen certainly whilst Boris is in charge.
Putting a levy on fuel companies would still mean Sky high fuel bills with less likelihood of a reduction for customers later.

Thought the majority of the money used to bail out the banks had been recouped by HMG selling their shares in them?
Rather than a levy maybe a mandatory HMG shareholding big enough to influence things? Kind of partial nationalisation ?

Dunno, I`ll be dead before it all goes to pot!

 

[Peterdev]

I just thought it would be good to put a levy on bad customer service. The public might well support it.
I see Lloyds are gradually closing all their branches. I’m glad my career in banking was over many years at the age of 34

 

[Marked Ox]

ught the majority of the money used to bail out the banks had been recouped by HMG selling their shares in them?
Rather than a levy maybe a mandatory HMG shareholding big enough to influence things? Kind of partial nationalisation ?

Dunno, I`ll be dead before it all goes to pot!

You're a socialist at heart.

 

[Essexyellows]

You're a socialist at heart.

"Socio-conservative-liberal-Taliban" would do me.

They all have good parts.

 

[MarkG]

Thought the majority of the money used to bail out the banks had been recouped by HMG selling their shares in them?
Rather than a levy maybe a mandatory HMG shareholding big enough to influence things? Kind of partial nationalisation ?

Dunno, I`ll be dead before it all goes to pot!

Thought I heard we (uk plc ) bailed out natwest for £18billion but just sold our share for £1bn or so. No idea if those numbers are right or mean we’ve lost 17BN.

 

[MC Yellow]

Thought I heard we (uk plc ) bailed out natwest for £18billion but just sold our share for £1bn or so. No idea if those numbers are right or mean we’ve lost 17BN.

Taxpayer no longer majority NatWest shareholder https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60898614

£26 billion according to this