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Nominate your NINE stockmarket villains or buffoons of the past 12 months – its for UK Investor Show

All will be revealed in due course but this is going to raise money for Woodlarks, will be a lot of fun at UK Investor Show and I ask for your help. Simply nominate your top nine stockmarket knaves or buffoons of the past 12 months – all must be from different companies or organisations. For starters here is mine:

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  1. Steve Holland

    Rob Terry!!!!

  2. 1) Rob Terry, Quindell
    2) Bill Kelleher, New World Oil & Gas
    3) Peter Landau, Range Resources
    4) Roland Cornish, Beaumont Cornish (shared with Felicity Geidt, who clearly doesn’t know how email works)
    5) Sarah Hale and everyone at discredited Nomad Jefferies
    6) Andrew Austin, IGas Energy
    7) Laurence Moorse, Quindell
    8) David Chen, Range Resources (though probably a better candidate for next year, given the way things are going)
    9) Frank Timis, African Minerals

  3. Head of FCA
    Head of Aim regulation
    CEO of London Stock exchange
    Chairman of BHR
    CEO of BHR
    Chairman of SKR
    Vince Cable
    Fatty Cornish
    Chris Oil

  4. *The board of Core VCT for some sharp tactics eg on winding up.
    The board of SOCO International for losing a lot of oil and reporting drastically reduced reserves and presiding over a 60% share price drop.
    Me for having shares in both outfits

  5. *The board of Core VCT for some sharp tactics eg on winding up.
    *The board of SOCO International for losing a lot of oil and reporting drastically reduced reserves and presiding over a 60% share price drop.
    *Me for having shares in both outfits.


  6. drunken sailor

    1. Tim “Blobby” Baldwin TXO
    2. Tim Harper CTFA
    3. Martin Wheatley FCA
    4. Marcus Stuttard AIM regulation.
    5. Aiden Early – of no company because he is disqualified and definitely not a shadow director of Worthington any more
    6. Vince Cable
    7. Robert Fielding Quindell
    8. Andrew “piggy” Austin IGas
    9. Steamy of QPP SAG and all his aliases


  7. nigel somerville

    my nine:

    1. Rob Terry – ex QPP (apparently)
    2. Angus Forrest – Tern and previously DLM (now ARGP where he was also Chairman for a time)
    3. WH Ireland – for employing Paul Shackleton. Also Nomad to Tern which has had to issue serial corrections to RNSs
    4. Roland Cornish – Beaumont Cornish
    5. Ray Zimmerman – ZAI
    6. Jefferies International (Nomad to IGas and African Minerals)
    7. Andrew ‘Piggy’ Austin (CEO, Igas)
    8. Marcus Stuttard and the Keystone Cops at AIM Regulation
    9. Martin Wheatley, boss of the FCA


  8. alcira16247

    Robert Simon Terry – disgraced ex Quindell Chairman

    Peter Hambro – the founder and chairman of Petropavlovsk (ultimate old school crony capitalist!)

    Marissa Mayer – Yahoo CEO (proving that…… yeah, that’s right……… she ain’t no Steve Jobs!)

    Christopher Bailey – Burberry CEO ( screaming £8.5 million salary, ain’t enough to ruin a company!)

    Martin Wheatley – CEO of the FCA (for changing the word ‘conduct’ to ‘cockup’)

    Peter Shea – CEO Daniel Stewart (for proving keeping it in the family, don’t always work!)

    Doug Ware – CEO Worthington Group ( wished I’d stayed a photographer!)

    Dave Breith – CEO of Comms (Shamed and discredited)

    Andrew Austin – CEO, IGas. (for not telling the truth, PIGGY!)


  9. filthy lucre

    a blogsite built on vendettas and bitterness, will not enjoy the longevity
    of T1ps.com

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Thursday »

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INSG
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  • By Steve Moore
  • 17 September 2026, 13:34
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  • 17 September 2026, 12:38
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  • 17 September 2026, 11:10
CRTA
Cirata letter to FCA & AIM Regulation: was bad news suppressed ahead of fund raise? I bet it was!
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  • 17 September 2026, 10:04
PAF
Pan African Resources – full-year results, a winning share tip still Buy
  • By HotStockRockets
  • 17 September 2026, 08:45
AVCT
TW does not understand the science and maths at Avacta so what do Evil Banksta and Jim Mellon say?
  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 17 September 2026, 08:14

Wednesday »

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  • By Steve Moore
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AVCT
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  • By Tom Winnifrith
  • 16 September 2026, 14:32
ADF
Facilities by ADF – interims emphasise its “strength”, so a trading warning (natch!)…
  • By Steve Moore
  • 16 September 2026, 14:25
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CTA
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Tuesday »

Bearcast
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ALU
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Boom
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  • 14 September 2026, 13:55
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  • 14 September 2026, 13:23
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  • 14 September 2026, 12:19
BRES
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VCT
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  • 11 September 2026, 14:52
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  • 11 September 2026, 12:22
JSG
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  • By Tom Winnifrith & Steve Moore
  • 11 September 2026, 11:27
FUM
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