news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8134981.stm
Just looks like prudent government to me - £120m in resettlement money is a mere drop in the ocean compared to the many billions that would have been sucked into developing new models.
Obviously the govt couldn't be seen to kick their union-represented workers into touch, hence the non-disclosure of some correspondence.
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The finding of the original enquiry have not been publicised.
There is a General Election soon.
They could be very embarrassing for the Government.
A Fraud Enquiry results in the enquiry being sub judice and not being published..
Me, cynical? Never.
Edited by madf on 06/07/2009 at 07:20
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I find myself agreeing with madf for once.
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Obviously the govt couldn't be seen to kick their union-represented workers ..........
Union-bashing without you giving giving a shred of evidence in support of your statement is totally unjustified.
Edited by L'escargot on 06/07/2009 at 08:08
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Not union-bashing at all, just wondering if it is the govenrment being politically expedient.
What I mean is the government wouldn't want to publish letters showing them basically letting Rover and it's 6000 workers (and 10s of thousands in related industries) go to the wall.
That's 6000 (+) people who probably traditionally vote more for Labour than the other parties.
Don't want to be seen letting down the working classes now, do we ?
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That's 6000 (+) people who probably traditionally vote more for Labour than the other parties.
How do you know that?
Don't want to be seen letting down the working classes now do we ?
Who is that a dig at? I wish you'd be a bit more specific in your statements.
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Who is that a dig at? I wish you'd be a bit more specific in your statements. <<
The 'dig' is directed at the government, a party supposedly rooted in skilled/unskilled manual workers in Britain who are largely responsible for them being in power in the first place.
My suspicion is that this matter is being handled (by HM Govt) in a way to deflect any government culpability in the collapse of MG-Rover.
Obviously unions are the best thing that ever happened to the UK motor industry, but that's another matter.
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.......... unions are the best thing that ever happened to the UK motor industry .......
That was certainly true when I worked in the motor industry.
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>> .......... unions are the best thing that ever happened to the UK motor industry ....... That was certainly true when I worked in the motor industry.
To elucidate, my employee would have had an insurmountable problem trying to negotiate separately with every single employee. It was a condition of employment that we were members of an appropriate trade union, to enable collective bargaining to take place.
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I wouldn't mind running a company for 5 years for £2M a year pocket money, no matter what happened afterwards, which is what the Pheonix 4 seem to have done. Its just a shame for them that they didn't get to pocket a few million £ of the taxpayers money on top of this !
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