I had expected the complexity of our takeover problem to be...

I had expected the complexity of our takeover problem to be reasonably manageable, limited to ESG, Santos, the ESG shareholders action group and hopefully some other bidders. this would have not been easy to deal with but it seemed to be at least to have some bounds.

The problem has since expanded to:

-The DOW falling 500 points

- is a double dip recession occurring and will we be in GFC2 at the time of the vote.

-Standard & Poor's has just downgraded the United States credit rating from AAA to AA


I suspect we are in for some very "interesting" times.