Mg Rover Goes Into Receivership

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My great great grandmother was apparently a Bavarian ice skating champion - I can't even stand up on skates .
 
They are skills you could acquire with ease( well milking more than clockmaking ) unlike ice skating and me !
 
Time for me to nail my colours firmly to the mast...

This Labour government is the best thing to happen to this country in my lifetime and Tony Blair is the best PM I can ever recall, and most economic analysts I read in the newspapers and/or see on TV seem to believe Gordon Brown is the best chancellor we've had in many decades.

Every governing party will have its faults and everyone made unhappy by those faults will take every opportunity to attack the government either at a policy or personal level.

There's no point in my saying what I think about the 18 years of Conservatism before the current government as I'm sure supporters will be quick to nitpick any points I'd make just as surely as I might nitpick any arguments Rooster Booster B)

I agree with Brian in that I think we will hear a lot more about what the management at MG Rover and its predecessors have been doing for quite some time.

About a dozen or so years ago, they passed up on the best opportunity they ever had to make the company successful. They had the opportunity to establish a permanent relationship with Honda but they spurned it.

For the first time in decades, Rovers, under the short-lived partnership with Honda, were gaining ground hand over fist on their rivals, with reliable, quality cars whose 'British' badging was overcoming the innate xenophobia of the typical British buyer. But Rover got greedy and wanted more from the partnership than their contribution deserved, so Honda pulled the plug and went their own merry, successful way.

Quite simply, Rover has never recovered.

I feel sorry for the workforce - more so for their families. There's a wee bit of me says if there was a collective will in the workforce to produce a better-built product they could have succeeded, but there's a niggling doubt that it was there. Tynesiders led the way in their partnership with Nissan but the Rover workforce produced crap once Honda ditched them.

This will please a lot of other forumites. If Labour don't win the next election I'll probably emigrate. I would not trust any of the things I hold dear to any other government: a national health service, education (particularly the protection denominational schools have under existing legislation) and the economy.

The question is, which country should I go to?
 
Originally posted by Maurice@Apr 10 2005, 08:44 PM


The question is, which country should I go to?
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Not to Spain

The political situation here can not be worse.





About Tony Blair
I think he is very good, I have seen him many times in Tv, even in BBC parliment and I think there is not as good speacher in any parliment in europe as good as him.

The positive about him is that his politic is not in the left bar in the name :D thats the reason why he is so good.
 
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Originally posted by Maurice@Apr 10 2005, 08:44 PM
If Labour don't win the next election I'll probably emigrate.
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I seem to remember my Dad telling us as kids that if Labour did win the next election(s) we would leave the country.... :lol: He was a massive Neil Kinnock hater & he said he would NEVER live in a country run by him.
 
LONDON (Reuters) - Talks to save MG Rover are set to continue after the government agreed to provide emergency funding to the company to prevent the immediate lay-off of 6,000 workers.

Staff at Rover's Longbridge plant will attend a mass meeting addressed by union leaders to hear more about the attempt to rescue the company and lift it out of administration.

The government will provide a 6.5 million pound loan to the company to cover wages and expenses for one week.

"There will be no redundancies at Longbridge tomorrow (Monday)," Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said on Sunday.

"The government has agreed to provide the necessary funds to the administrator in order to avoid the issuing of redundancy notices at MG Rover while efforts are made to keep the business together," Hewitt said.

The country's last major carmaker collapsed on Friday after it failed to agree to a rescue deal with China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SIAC).

The crisis at Rover threatens around 15,000 jobs among its suppliers, on top of the 6,000 employed at its Longbridge plant near Birmingham, creating a political headache for the government ahead of a general election on May 5.

The provision of emergency funding came after a day of talks between Hewitt, trade unions and the administrators appointed to run the company following its collapse.

"The government has agreed to assist and work with the administrator and with the unions who will be developing, with all reasonable speed, a realistic business proposition for SIAC and other possible purchasers to consider," Hewitt added.

Hewitt last week announced a 40 million pound support package for Rover's suppliers.
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I obviously mix in the wrong circles because I cannot believe the number of pro Tony Blair people on this forum.
I have never voted anything other than Labour all my life. My father like me has always voted labour. He was a railwayman from 14 until he retired at 63 and would not have dreamt of voting conservative in a million years.
However that has all changed because Tony Bliar cannot be trusted and he will not get my vote nor my fathers and I do not know one labour voter who does not have doubts about Blair and the future.
The man is a liar with the Iraq war probably being his biggest fest. For him to now insist that the ends now justify the means is an absolute disgrace. The lies he told to justify the war are outrageous.
I believe that women in general are much more perceptive about people and men in general and they see through him. That is why he has had so much trouble when faced by audiences made up purely of women. He goes to pieces.
History will tell us if he was a good PM or not. I think not and I hope that history proves me right. I cannot stand the man and if he could take two other slime balls with him when he goes ( Mandleson and Boateng) then so much the better.
As for the Rover situation then no money should be spent bailing out this company. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember the days of " Red Robbo" and his like and whilst production at Longbridge has improved its still only a fifth as efficient as Toyota and the other Japanese car plants in the UK. As someone said "Rover is Over and Out".
 
I don't think that there are many pro-Tonys on here, Hutchy - in fact, I find it hard to think of any off hand. The problem that many of us have is that the only people for whom we can vote are bloody politicians!
 
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