Rover bosses took £40 million !

[sasguru]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090911...m-6323e80.html

Basically the greedy feckers cold bloodedly destroyed the last major indigenous car manufacturer in the UK, for their own gain.
Makes my blood boil

Then the inquiry took another £16 million.

Basically our business leaders, as well as politicians, are the most greedy, selfish, venal, devious, inept, useless koonts going

[DiscoStu]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090911...m-6323e80.html

Basically the greedy flipers cold bloodedly destroyed the last major indigenous car manufacturer in the UK, for their own gain.
Makes my blood boil

Then the inquiry took another £16 million.

Basically our business leaders, as well as politicians, are the most greedy, selfish, venal, devious, inept, useless koonts going

Is it socialist sasguru again this morning?

[sasguru]

Now they face a ban on running companies:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090911...n-6323e80.html


Bring back hanging, drawing and quartering, I say

[sasguru]

Is it socialist sasguru again this morning?

Nothing to do with politics is it?

[DiscoStu]

Now they face a ban on running companies:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090911...n-6323e80.html


Bring back hanging, drawing and quartering, I say

Edit: 2 posts off the big 15K!

[sasguru]

Edit: 2 posts off the big 15K!

Oh yeah - didn't notice!

[DiscoStu]

Nothing to do with politics is it?

Haven't people been destroying businesses for their own personal gain since the beginning of capitalism? There are countless asset-strippers who are more than happy to destroy a company for their own personal gain.

Admittedly, Rover was ultimately sunk by their own complete ineptitude at running it, and their willingness to take out huge sums from what was a struggling company, but I think the analogy still holds.

[sasguru]

Haven't people been destroying businesses for their own personal gain since the beginning of capitalism? There are countless asset-strippers who are more than happy to destroy a company for their own personal gain.

Admittedly, Rover was ultimately sunk by their own complete ineptitude at running it, and their willingness to take out huge sums from what was a struggling company, but I think the analogy still holds.

Fair enough I suppose.
It used to be that some capitalists had some patriotism and felt some responsibility towards their workers.
Oh well never mind, I'm probably out of touch with the modern world.

[Menelaus]

There's one view that says that the "Phoenix Consortium" obtained a bargain and then ****ed it up. There's another view that says that there was malice in their actions - I think that the key here revolves around the question of weret he actions malicious or incompetent.

[minestrone]

There's one view that says that the "Phoenix Consortium" obtained a bargain and then ****ed it up. There's another view that says that there was malice in their actions - I think that the key here revolves around the question of weret he actions malicious or incompetent.

As that wee french geezer said "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence".