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Previously on "Westminter child abuse enquiry cover up"

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  • darmstadt
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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Eh? Chrysler, Ford, and Vauxhall weren't competitors? And then the slow influx of foreign car manufacturers from the mid-70's? Or was your old man a dedicated Allegro fan?
    I think he means no one was sacked for not selling cars, the government just pumped more money into it.

    If they had been a private enterprise they would have adapted or died.

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  • CourtesyFlush
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    Westminter?

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    I am not sure what point you are trying to make about recruitment consultants but the problem with BL was that there was no competitive market for manufacturing and selling cars. If there had been bad management would have been weeded out by the markets.
    Eh? Chrysler, Ford, and Vauxhall weren't competitors? And then the slow influx of foreign car manufacturers from the mid-70's? Or was your old man a dedicated Allegro fan?

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  • Unix
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    The public sector was not the driver of the contractor market your point is utterly irrelevant
    The computer/internet age was the driver, anyone who thinks different is deluded..

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    Looking at British Leyland, the management wrecked the company far more than the unions. The Italian Job found they were most unhelful. The professionals were forced to turn to Ford.

    The issue was alot of hangers on (then called management) doing nothing except sponging.

    Now we call them recruitment agents. They can't even be bothered to look after their kids when they go on holiday thus exposing them to celebrities.....
    I am not sure what point you are trying to make about recruitment consultants but the problem with BL was that there was no competitive market for manufacturing and selling cars. If there had been bad management would have been weeded out by the markets.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by speling bee View Post
    In which case you should be able to grasp it.

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  • speling bee
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    The public sector was not the driver of the contractor market your point is utterly irrelevant
    In which case you should be able to grasp it.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Unix View Post
    Oh that's right, there are no public sector contractors..

    The public sector was not the driver of the contractor market your point is utterly irrelevant

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Thatcher freed up industry from the shackles of Union and government control. The UK was virtually a communist country on the edge of bankruptcy. Companies were forced to compete in markets as opposed to being government run monopolies. The drivers of the contractor boom were the banks and the energy companies who were forced to invest in technology in order to compete in what were to become global markets.

    I am surprised I need to explain this to you.
    Looking at British Leyland, the management wrecked the company far more than the unions. The Italian Job found they were most unhelful. The professionals were forced to turn to Ford.

    The issue was alot of hangers on (then called management) doing nothing except sponging.

    Now we call them recruitment agents. They can't even be bothered to look after their kids when they go on holiday thus exposing them to celebrities.....

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  • Unix
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Thatcher freed up industry from the shackles of Union and government control. The UK was virtually a communist country on the edge of bankruptcy. Companies were forced to compete in markets as opposed to being government run monopolies. The drivers of the contractor boom were the banks and the energy companies who were forced to invest in technology in order to compete in what were to become global markets.

    I am surprised I need to explain this to you.
    Oh that's right, there are no public sector contractors..

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  • BrilloPad
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    BBC News - Butler-Sloss: I won't quit as head of abuse inquiry

    But Labour's Simon Danczuk said her position was tainted because her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was Attorney General in the 1980s.

    I will send an email to him later. A politician who will stand up for what is right - what a star.

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  • quackhandle
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    More concerning, abuse is probably
    still going on today. The system will be protected.
    +1. Expect some information, probably about MPs that died many years ago, to come out usually the day after a terrorist attack. The allegations about the living will probably never come to light, sadly.

    qh
    Last edited by quackhandle; 9 July 2014, 12:02.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    She's the sister of Thatcher's Attorney General, it seems. I think we all know how I feel about that gang of thugs.

    So which should I be more concerned about when considering her fitness for the job: her brother's activities, or her husband's?

    Or are we now allowed to judge a woman on her own merits, given that it's 2014 and they're allowed to vote and own property and all kinds of tulip like that?
    She also sits in the House of Lords so she'll be investigating her fellow old fuddy duddies and decently charming old chaps that enjoy a Pimms or two and then again:

    Brother of paedophile inquiry judge was accused of 'cover up' - Telegraph

    How the Establishment hid the monster in their midst | Mail Online

    They should have appointed a sitting judge who can use legal powers to call up witnesses but nope...

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Unix View Post
    So you think there was no business or rich people before Thatcher came, the UK was a communist state before her? You give her too much credit, globalization and technological advances create the benefits .
    Thatcher freed up industry from the shackles of Union and government control. The UK was virtually a communist country on the edge of bankruptcy. Companies were forced to compete in markets as opposed to being government run monopolies. The drivers of the contractor boom were the banks and the energy companies who were forced to invest in technology in order to compete in what were to become global markets.

    I am surprised I need to explain this to you.

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