P&O Sunk?

[Ribenapigeon]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Ah, Saudi diplomacy.....
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[stinkwheel]

My understanding is you can make a position redundant but not a person.

If you make someone redundant then hire someone else to do the same job, that wasn't actually making them redundant and there are consequences.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Im-a-Ridah]

Seize company assets as a message to others.

[Ribenapigeon]

[stinkwheel]

The cost they have failed to take into account is the reputational damage.

P&O is now a dirty brand.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[quote="Im-a-Ridah"

See this how the left wing people do it, competitive virtue signalling!

Stoning? That's humane, virtually Tory capitalism I'd say

Personally I would cover them in hornets and set them on fire then while they are burning I would throw them into a cattle mincer while playing Phil Collins greatest hits in the background and then pour the results into a bucket, then dump it in a volcano. [/quote]

That's uncalled for. Nobody should be subjected to Phil Collins.
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[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

[Im-a-Ridah]

Phil Collins, making Vladamir Pukin [sic] look popular.

Personally I would consider nationalising the following:
- Large businesses for which the government is the only real customer. At minimum places like QinetiQ but potentially also BAE, Thales UK etc mostly defence companies. Despite BAE's vast array of products, many of them highly competitive internationally like it's 70,000t aircraft carrier or ballistic missile armed nuclear submarines, there is only one realistic customer.
- Essential services for which competition cannot realistically exist due to the unreasonable up-front investment required. Train lines, utilities, roads. I would even be willing to consider making bus and rail travel free or near free at certain periods and on certain routes. E.g You can travel from Hull to London and back for free on Saturday or something. The idea would be to bring the country together more and also help create regional hubs.
- Services which are basically just run on subsidies anyway e.g buses.
- Front line medical stuff, mostly because it is immoral to put a charge on life.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Nobby the Bastard]

It appears the government was aware of P&Os plans prior to the mass redundancies...
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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Polarbear]

The rest of the marine industry went foreign from the 70's onwards. We got rid of British ratings for Hong Kong Chinese. Then they went for FlipFlops because they were cheaper yet.

Officers followed and when I left the industry it was a token gesture number of Britswith the majority being Indians and eastern Europeans.

No one gave a flying fuck then when our Merchant Navy was decimated wth ships going foreign flag to circumnavigate labour laws. The ferry industry didn't support any action because 'I'm all right jack' and their people thought themseves safe (which they were at the time).

You reap what you sow. If the ships are not UK registered, they aren't employed under UK law and we have no rules about the nationality of workers on ships trading into the UK (unlike say America who do)

People are only interested because they are ferries coming to the uk. Shell on it's own got rid of ten times that amount of seafarers in 1986 and re employed on way worse contracts or took on Indians. BP and Exxon the same.

Fuck the RMT.
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