If there was an issue of new shares I would certainly be interested in buying some (once I understood the difference between A & B shares and what it was I was buying - never got my head round this when the attempt was made to sell off somebody's shares as £250 souvenirs during the crunch time
). Assuming I did buy some, I would happily in the first instance give my proxy votes to the ASSF or a Supporters' Trust to be used as part of a fans' block vote. I suspect many on here would happily do something similar if they could, but equally I suspect many dug deeper than me before Christmas, and there won't be that much spare cash floating about just now.
I wouldn't give the shares themselves to either ASSF or Trust (though I might leave them in my will
) as I would want to retain the right to withdraw the proxy and vote as I wanted in certain circumstances, e.g. if there was a proposal to give the whole shooting match to another Munto - ain't hindsight wonderful? I applaud Ilyas' gesture in making his shares over to the ASSF but I'm not sure it was the best thing to do.