At Fortis, the Belgians threw shoes and sang the Marseillaise.
At ArcelorMittal the French stormed the building and threw smoke bombs.
And at AIB yesterday, the Irish were chucking eggs.
As an aside: this was not just off the cuff, either. Yesterday’s yolky brouhahah was, in fact, per the Belfast Telegraph, a calculated, premeditated egging:
I bought them a month ago and made sure they were really evil smelling – like the board of AIB… I have no regrets whatsoever, I should have brought a gun.
But we digress.
Today, the Guardian has a nice roundup of all such recent AGM excitement. In which – the point of this post – we’ve found a challenge – for the British.
Roger Lawson, communications director of the UK Shareholders’ Association, believes that the British are largely “too reticent” to start unleashing missiles at businessmen.
Ahem.
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May 15th
Computacenter
Galiform
Intertek
Kazakhmys
Ladbrokes
Petrofac
Shore Capital
Skyepharma
Standard Life
Unite
18th May
Babcock & Brown
BG Group
RSA Insurance
19th May
Avis
Cairn Energy
Collins Stewart
Evolution
Ferrexpo
Fidelity European Values
Next
Regus
etc etc.