SANTAN Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Not that you're upset or anything. Yeah, the phrase you used was "massively succesful", champ. Let's see. What are her qualifications for being made a Tsar of British business? Her business was running at a loss for 2 years before she punted it and now she charges £10k a pop to "mentor" people. Even her diet pill company was running at a loss. Factor in her tribunals for being a fucking awful boss. Unlucks. Why would I be upset? I'll assume you are that poster I mentioned.. God this is desperate stuff from you cybernats. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Obvious troll is obvious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 From the Herald Michelle Mone has sold a rags to riches story to the press for more than 20 years. But the harsh business reality is that her bottom line has never quite had the lift of her much-hyped Ultimo push-up bras. Ms Mone's lingerie empire - always far more modest than her publicity would suggest - effectively came to an end when she sold most of the business, ranked "small" by Companies House, amid substantial losses in 2014. Now, most of her business interests gone, Ms Mone is the UK Government's start-up czar, charged with finding out how to encourage entrepreneurial zest in Britain's most deprived neighbourhoods. But can her flair for getting pictures of her bras in to the papers serve as a model for enterprise for the urban poor? After all, she has achieved some spectacular publicity coups. She secured Rachel Hunter, former wife of Rod Stewart, as the face of Ultimo to replace the rocker's new wife Penny Lancaster. And her firm's creations - while never having the financial oomph or commercial reach of competitors like Wonderbra - have generated acres of usually positive coverage. Scottish business sources, however, are not convinced she has what it takes to find the answer to woefully low business start-ups in deprived parts of Britain. "She can bluster," said an entrepreneur who knows her well. "But the truth is that her PR success is based on her ability to produce photos of girls in their undies for the tabloids." Not everything said in the redtops about Ultimo has proved to be true. Reports that the firm designed the cleavage-enhancing bra sported by Julia Roberts in Hollywood hit Erin Brockovich were dismissed by the film's makers. Ms Mone sold most of Ultimo Brands - which took over the assets of her main company, MJM International, after it chalked up huge losses - to Sri Lankan business partners. Company executives insist it was a going concern despite negative net worth. She had built the business up with her husband, Michael, over two decades. Those familiar with Ultimo suggest she was the "face" of the firm and Mr Mone was the "head". The two split acrimoniously in 2011. MJM, which had been producing modest returns, suffered as a result. Ms Mone found herself in the papers for the wrong reasons. Her firm was ordered to pay nearly £16,000 in compensation to a worker who found a listening device in a vase of artificial flowers in his office after an employment tribunal. "It is not normal to bug your employees," said a senior business source. Ms Mone then detailed her account of her 22-year-long marriage's breakdown in a book. She described her regret for trashing Mr Mone's £100,000 Porsche, putting laxatives in his coffee and cutting up his clothes. Ms Mone thought her husband had cheated on her with her head of design, Samantha Bunn. The pair have since set up home together but Mr Mone denies adultery. He has said her book was "a work of total fiction". Such stories means worries about Ms Mone's appointment have spread from business in to politics, especially Conservative politics. "There is deep, deep concern about this appointment in the Scottish party," a Tory source said. Senior party figures north of the Border, meanwhile, are worried that Ms Mone's abrasive social media style could backfire. During the 2011 London riots Ms Mone took to Twitter to call for the army to support police. "People who riot, steal, cover face deserve zero human rights," she said. This was her tweeting about people from exactly the kind of community the Conservatives in Westminster now want her to help. And she was doing so at about the same time she was admitting trashing her husband's car. "Michelle has become addicted to the adulation of strangers", said a former friend. But as she enters the world of politics, can she handle the criticism of strangers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Sounds like she'll fit right in as a Tory peer, teebs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Well, this was a difficult and confusing read but the fact that she isn't massively successful is the whole point.Aye she is, she said it on twitter. It must be true. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crùbag Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Are you legitimately trying to argue that Michelle Mone (OBE) is not successful, calm down Barack.. Are you saying it's illegal to question her 'success'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRob72 Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Her company was losing money despite having outsourced thousands of jobs to China and ceased trading with liabilities of £287,000. How is that massively successful? she still seems to have done alright for herself though eh! Coupled with the fact that she was against independence is the reason she attracts so much hate and bile from the Nats, that's it.I've no time for her at all, but the levels of rage she seems to generate on here is hilarious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fide Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 she still seems to have done alright for herself though eh! Coupled with the fact that she was against independence is the reason she attracts so much hate and bile from the Nats, that's it. I've no time for her at all, but the levels of rage she seems to generate on here is hilarious. I know you're a union jack teatowel owning Unionist to the nth degree, but can you truly not see why vast swathes of Scotland hold her in such disdain? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 she still seems to have done alright for herself though eh! Indeed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland B Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 (edited) she still seems to have done alright for herself though eh! Coupled with the fact that she was against independence is the reason she attracts so much hate and bile from the Nats, that's it. I've no time for her at all, but the levels of rage she seems to generate on here is hilarious. Doing OK for yourself doesn't qualify you to become a peer and a government Tzar, surely? I have no problem with anybody who campainged or was involved in BT even though I disagreed with their message. What I do have a problem with, is those who lied and used subterfuge to get their message across. What I have a massive problem with is someone being honoured for very public campaigning on the governments behalf and being rewarded for it. If Mone had not supported the BT campaign and not done it so publicly, she would not be considered for either of her new appointments. She's a very dislikable person, but it's the rewards that annoy me more. Edited August 12, 2015 by Roland B 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dipped Flake Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 she still seems to have done alright for herself though eh! Coupled with the fact that she was against independence is the reason she attracts so much hate and bile from the Nats, that's it. I've no time for her at all, but the levels of rage she seems to generate on here is hilarious. she said she would leave Scotland if the SNP won in 2007, she said it again for the 2011 election, then she repeated it for the referendum, saying she would leave if Scotland voted YES. So she lied straight out 3 times running. Plus her outright hatred for the SNP does not exactly endear her to SNP voters. Finally she is rewarded for her lies by being given a job and likely a peerage - Nope can't see the reason to intensely dislike her either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I see there was even more positive news for the Scottish economy released today. Mone will be seething. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 she still seems to have done alright for herself though eh! Coupled with the fact that she was against independence is the reason she attracts so much hate and bile from the Nats, that's it. I've no time for her at all, but the levels of rage she seems to generate on here is hilarious. She supports the team whose name you can't bring yourself to type and her religion would stop her being your acquaintance. Let's have it right,on any other thread, you wouldn't give a monkeys about her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I'm female Voted no And can't stand her 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland B Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I'm female Voted no And can't stand her ! Mysoginist. Apparently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Are you saying it's illegal to question her 'success'? This man's got it. Yeah you should definitely be jailed for doing that. I hope I made that clear earlier.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I don't like her. You can't claim she's not successful though. 7 billion people in the world and she's no living shabby. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I'd be a success if said success was handed to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rational Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 The fact that there's loads of Tories going 'naw dinnae' speaks volumes. I think I've figured it. It's not that she's a Tory as Ruth is secretly liked, if not loved by us all. It's not because she is a businesswoman as Ann Gloag is well respected within the business community. It's not because she is a unionist, plenty of folk campaigned for no and while I thought they were wrong, I could admire them for their stance. Charlie Kennedy springs to mind. It is because she screams 'LOOK AT ME, look at how successful I am you bunch of peasants'. She is a master of self importance, completely unaware of how she comes across. A cup full of talent for publicity in a sea of ambition, she would sell your granny for glue and don't you forget it. And it rubs most sensible Scots up the wrong way. She's a hero to unionist trolls though, you can see it on here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does.......some guru chunt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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