Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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hello guys and girls
iv been with vodafone for many years, visited there dover store last week to find it closed along with the thanet store.
although its easy enough for me to get to the folkestone branch, this must be a real pain to many of its customers
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I can hardly wait for BarryW to step in and cheer this instance of his economic theory at work.
Here we have a multinational company which has had it's UK tax liabilities slashed to the bone and you can see just what it has done for us and our growth prospects...more 'free' space for the expected and much vaunted economic miracle to take place.
Play fair on tax, they say, and industry shall respond...and this one has done just that.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i was about to say much the same, they are hardly in financial difficulties.
yet they still feel that they are not making enough so throw more people on the scrapheap.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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All business must review their business plans and consider the profitability of all cost/profit centres and make decisions based on that. If a business fails to do so then it will not last long and a lot more people will end up out of work. I know nothing though about the specific Vodaphone issue. It is the facts of life.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hardly sends the right message to the low paid shop workers though, they will be fully aware of the massive profits vodafone have made and how little tax they have paid in return.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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dont they open sunday hours here in dover,10 -4.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That's life Howard.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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not now brian#are you reading the posts?
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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kieth,of course i do,but have had the odd ocassuion to go to the vodofone shop for the boy.not inpressed with there opening times.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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they all open 1000
dover never opened on a sunday
but now not open at all
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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kieth,they opening hours on the door,open monday to friday 10am to 4pm.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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not at all now briian
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 4.``It is the facts of life``.............# 7....``Thats life Howard``
Do the above apply to ``service personnel cull``?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - I assume that you are referring to the Armed Forces and there we have a different situation. The MoD was starved of the resources it needed under the Blair/Brown government and Defence is the top priority and most important part of public spending. Yes, the Forces need to always modernise, yes they need to adapt as every business has to do, but we have too few troops, too few combat aircraft and too few ships for the Defence of British interests. They are overstretched and we have never had enough boots on the ground where they have been needed in operations for years.
Different facts of life to those that effect businesses.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Unemployment is still Unemployment.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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at what point do we stop saying "business is business", "that's life" etc and actually look at the plight of struggling people shafted by big consortiums?
no immediate signs of that.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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As I said, a business has to adapt and change if it does not then all their employees will end up out of work. Life is hard, face the facts.
Look what happened to businesses like British Leyland, subsidised, poorly managed - beset by militant trade unions defending their restrictive practices preventing them from modernising in the name of 'protecting jobs'. Whole industries were destroyed in this country because they failed to adapt.
Yes, that's life and no amount of hand wringing will change that. I have said before what needs to be done to improve the UK's competitive position and help businesses to grow and new ones to develop. The provision of new opportunities that way is the best way to help those made unemployed by restructuring.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Spherical Objects....``the best way to help those unemployed is to restructure``
2.7 million are not being restructured.
For two years we have had `no economic growth`to restructure .........we can`t even recover.....
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - all you can do is offer blandishments, mere words, hot air, tea and sympathy that does nothing real to help anyone.
What on earth would you do? preserve a business in aspic 'to preserve jobs' until it eventually went bust.
Yes, it sounds hard, yes I am being hard headed. Businesses that are not run on sound business principals in a hard-headed way go bust, particularly in difficult times as we have now. We all ultimately depend on well run businesses that change and adapt, even people on benefits because without hard-headed business decisions being made the government would get even less tax revenues.