Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

YouGov released the results of a poll on Saturday that unbelievably claimed 82% of the country support him.

Mind you, YouGov is owned by the Chairman of the Tory Data Strategy Board.

 

You probably know better than I but these polls can easily be skewed by the choice of answers available. And as you point out, it is hardly an independent poll.

 

Completely untrue. Fake news.

 

We're fine - still got last year's. The main egg eaters in our family have all left home - and now can't travel here for the occasion.

 

This particular mob rely on answers from their panel members rather than the general public - and they select them on a poll by poll basis. They also select them knowing their political leanings, so each poll is fairly easy to manipulate.

 

They got the last election spot on.

 

Stephan Shakespeare ( Kukowski ) the joint founder and now CEO of YouGov stood as a Tory candidate in Colchester. In 2012, Shakespeare was appointed as Chairman of the Data Strategy Board (DSB), the advisory body that was set up by the government to maximise value of data for users across the UK. He is the former owner of the ConservativeHome website until he sold it to Lord Ashcroft. YouGov was listed on the AIM market at the LSE.

What bit of this is wrong?

 

He does not own the company

 

Stop splitting hairs or dancing on a pin whichever you find most agreeable. He started the company, is still the CEO of it, and although he might have to take note of what his shareholders say, effectively it is still his company. If he wanted to sell it, provided he could get the right price and the shareholders agreed, he could.

 

Wrong, he is a minority share holder, he is not in overall control. A shareholder requires agreement of 51% of the shares to be in control. The company could be sold against his wishes if enough of the public shareholders decided it should happen.

The statement was clearly false, lazy Guardian type misinformation.

 

Great new everyone
Wuhan is open again with unrestricted travel; and even better the markets reopen again
If you want to blame anyone for the crap we are in, there it is, CHINA
They lied to the world and they lied and are lying to their people still
Get a grip
As an aside if there were a way to nuke China without destroying the rest of the planet at this moment in time I would agree to it
On the other hand the way they are going they will destroy themselves and us anyway

 

And you claim to be a businessman. Lots of companies are controlled by minority shareholders, but the shares are divided up in such a way that the CEO will always have the final say. Get a grip. To all intents and purposes it is still his company.

 

You were clearly never a business man. You lack even the basic knowledge of a limited company. DUH!

It depends HOW many shares a shareholder has. He has well below 50%. He is not in ultimate control.

 

Just a casual genocide of 1.4BN people there.

Wowzers.

 

YouGov is a PLC love x

 

agreed, not owned by one person.

 

That was just for effect
The rest were too busy squabbling among themselves to even notice

 

I can assure you that I know very well all about limited companies and plc's as well. I also know about how you can divide share holdings up between different parties and still retain control. Then of course you can have preferential shares which I expect that you know all about. Your posts are not adding to a can of beans, so stop please.

 

I noticed duggie.

 

This is exactly what happened to Stelios Haji-ioannou when he set up Easyjet. He and his family controlled 34% of the shares. He often disagreed with the rest of the board on strategy. He accused them of buying too many planes so he tried to pursued other shareholders (to reach 51% of the shares) to kick out the management team. He failed to get enough support so he left the board and subsequently moaned from the side without any influence whatsoever for many years.

It is purely down to number of shares.