Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,476
Yesterday's news in most national press already.
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Matey- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 131
Let’s hope the others don’t follow suit. I worked for them in a senior role for 20 years and they just called me near the end of the furlough and said I’m redundant. No goodbye, no thanks….not even a card. At the end of the day, I guess we’re all just numbers!
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Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,680
This is just the tip of the iceberg and a mere inkling of what is to come in the 4 "free-ports" or more correctly "charter cities" (https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/ also critiques here
https://bakerstreetherald.com/ &
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/is-the-charter-cities-moment-here/)
DP World have been paid £50m by our government to set up 2 of the charter cities on top of the loans & furlough monies paid to P&O, allowing them to pay out £270m in dividends whilst pleading poverty as a justification for sacking 800 workers.
This is the new world order envisaged by the 1%ers who find democracy, transparency & representation a hindrance to their ability to milk us dry, ably supported by a willing cohort of middle managers who are grateful to get a slightly larger slice of the cake in return for shafting the rest of us... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal)
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Does anyone seriously believe that Laughing Boy will grow a pair over this one? Given his history of relentless mendacity, I have some doubts. We can only wait and see.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/23/boris-johnson-po-ferries-sackings-mpsKeith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,569
Sue
Your not wrong ,all I'm saying is the same conservative local MP voted against better conditions for workers , double standards .
Of course post 99 the usual lack of support no wonder he was never elected .
Jan
I still feel this is a PR disaster and will live with P and O for some time .
Of course it's the only way you can hit them is in the pocket.
Ross
Nice to chat to you today
Everyone
Next Demo
This Sat same place midday
If P and O get away with this
You could be next !
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,476
'This is the new world order envisaged by the 1%'
Is this the same wealthiest 1% in the UK who pay an estimated 28% of all income tax ?
'If no one went no faster than what I do there'd be a sight less trouble in this world'
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
Who saw Keith on TV .supporting the many people been made redundant by P@O.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,569
Hi Sue
The interview lasted a lot longer ,
But still if we don't protest where will this end .
No one's job will be safe.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
I agree I fully support the actions .Jobs need protection .Where will the jobs be for the future generations?Still talk talk .I don’t think some people can look further than their noses.
Currently the P@O situation is causing problems with our local road net works .Poor Aycliffe Residents . I would like to see more action from DDC .
Market Square is a mess and currently pulling down the old buildings in Stembrook.Too top it all they were trying out the new electric busses.What are they thinking about .
Bob will know there is a quotation People fiddle while Rome burns .Well long time since I was at school.Someone will correct me ..
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
It were Nero who did the fiddling.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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And I have done that for 40years
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,656
I only saw a little of their grilling but worrying that they would brazenly and knowingly break the law again.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,981
Thanks Ray .Nearly right then.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,569
To brazen
They couldn't understand they have procedures to go through .
The chief executive made it clear he was happy to break the law
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 2,900
(Another) someone who thinks the law doesn't apply to him. Without wishing to prejudge things, I do hope that the sentence includes hours of community service - I'm thinking here of litter-picking on the A2 and A20. Just saying.
(Not my real name.)
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
It's a charade. He knows only too well that he's acting with impunity.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Labour has suggested Boris Johnson was playing “fast and loose with the truth” when he told MPs yesterday that the government was definitely taking P&O Ferries to court for breaking employment law when it sacked 800 workers last week.
Johnson told MP at PMQs that he thought the company had broken the law and he said:
We will therefore be taking action ... If the company is found guilty, it will face fines running into millions of pounds ... We will take ’em to court, we will defend the rights of British workers.
But, during the P&O Ferries committee hearing this morning, ministers could not give details of when legal action might start, and one official said powers were not available to get an injunction against the company. (See 12.03pm.) And in the Commons, when Emily Thornberry, the shadow attorney general, asked if the government law officers agreed with the PM that the law had definitely been broken, Alex Chalk, the solicitor general, refused to back Johnson’s statement. And, asked if there would definitely be a prosecution, Chalk just said the firm would be taken to court “if the law allows for a prosecution”.
Thornberry has written to Suella Braverman, the attorney general, asking her to clear the matter up. She says:
Can I therefore ask you again, as a matter of urgency, when the prime minister said yesterday on multiple occasions that the government would be taking P&O to court for breaching the 1992 Act, is that statement correct, is that actually happening, or was he playing fast and loose with the truth, with the law and with the hopes of hundreds of P&O workers, by claiming to take action that he is not?
Johnson expected Keir Starmer to raise the P&O Ferries sackings yesterday and, by explicitly saying a prosecution would take place, he was partially able to parry Starmer’s claim that the government had been ineffective in response to the scandal.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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It is disgusting the way the staff were treated and they should have got a bigger pay out as well ,the only way to treat P.O. is stop them using The UK ports, but under Marine law that cannot be done, but they have broken the law so they should have the same done to them.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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The danger here is ,if P and O get away with this other employers will do same .
The chief exec showed yesterday he wasn't fazed by his actions .
He also didn't say he wouldn't take his bonus on his £330,000 salary .
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