Rover Bites Blair
Rover Bites Blair
The Rover plant in Longbridge is to close on Blair's watch.
Yesterday, the cat was let out of the bag concerning the £40m that the Governement put into the car manufacturer earlier this week in a desperate effort to keep it afloat before the election.
The whole New Labour strategy for this election has been to make it seem as if Blair isn't an autocratic megalomaniac who doesn't give a stuff what anyone else thinks and portray him as a 'man amongst equals' within the cabinet.
The FT revealed yesterday that Blair had steamrollered Brown and Hewitt to offer a rescue package to the failing Longbridge plant. Hewitt this lunchtime denied this, creating a rod for her own back by claiming the story is "just plain wrong" on Sky News.
Blair has cancelled his campaigning this afternoon, in order to be seen to be personally dealing with the problem.
Six thousand people have been told that they have lost their jobs today.
The Rover plant in Longbridge is to close on Blair's watch.
Yesterday, the cat was let out of the bag concerning the £40m that the Governement put into the car manufacturer earlier this week in a desperate effort to keep it afloat before the election.
The whole New Labour strategy for this election has been to make it seem as if Blair isn't an autocratic megalomaniac who doesn't give a stuff what anyone else thinks and portray him as a 'man amongst equals' within the cabinet.
The FT revealed yesterday that Blair had steamrollered Brown and Hewitt to offer a rescue package to the failing Longbridge plant. Hewitt this lunchtime denied this, creating a rod for her own back by claiming the story is "just plain wrong" on Sky News.
Blair has cancelled his campaigning this afternoon, in order to be seen to be personally dealing with the problem.
Six thousand people have been told that they have lost their jobs today.
Oh please…
Don't buy the Blair propaganda that everything has to be compared to the worst of the Tory past.
If that were really a sensible method of choosing who to vote for then Blair would always be saddled with Jim Callaghan's winter of discontent - rat infested rubbish-piles on the streets, corpses rotting unburied in churchyards, power shortages due to the three day week imposed by militant unions…
This story is about six thousand poor people losing their jobs smack in the middle of an election campaign whilst the government is banging on about how great they've made the economy.
Longbridge is in Birmingham Northfield, which has been Labour since 1992 and the incumbent currently has a majority of nearly 8,000. Throughout the Thatcher years it was solid Tory.
Posted by
Ben |
Fri Apr 15, 01:48:00 pm
I like your blog, I am going to link to it from Five
Posted by
Deek Deekster |
Fri Apr 15, 02:00:00 pm
Wait a minute. While I sympathise with people who have lost their jobs, isn't the reason Rover is going under more to do with their cars being pieces of crap than with the economy? I mean, even the best economy in the world can't support a terrible product that no-one is buying. A terrible product everyone is buying, yes. Look at the success of McDonalds.
Posted by
Matt |
Fri Apr 15, 02:36:00 pm
Absoluetly. Incedentally, happy birthday McDonald's - 50 today. Long may your 'healthy option' Caesar salad's contain more calories than your Big Mac's
Posted by
Ben |
Fri Apr 15, 02:45:00 pm