simoan wrote:SoftBank have announced it will be listed on NASDAQ only. No messing with the silly little technology loathing London market, they want top dollar for it. You can thank the idiotic British Government of Theresa May for the whole sorry mess. The whole thing is/was a national disgrace.
While I understand the sentiment, and indeed was a forced to sell my shares (being in a small minority). I really don't think that you can blame anyone but those who sold their shares at the time.
The football club Manchester United had quoted shares at the time that the fans were in uproar over it's sale. How many fans had shares in MU? Like MU, the sale of ARM was only possible because not enough people who cared owned the shares.
Did you, like me, own shares in ARM at the time of their sale?
If you want the government / state to have final say in the disposition of privately held assets then I fear those assets can no longer be regarded as owned by anyone other than the state. Do you currently have shares that you feel that the government might benefit from owning? For the good of the country of course.
Possibly we should re-nationalise British Petroleum. No need for windfall taxes and company investment could continue through bad years like 2020-21.
Of course the state could ignore BP and pay a market price to own ARM.
As for listing in the US, I fail to understand how you can blame a British government from decades ago for decisions made by Japanese company today. Actions of that and later governments possibly, but a single government and PM from long ago?