Scary Bear Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 I saw the news report and thought ‘what a shitty company P&O are’. Absolute scumbag behaviour sending a video message telling people they are immediately redundant. b*****ds. Companies like that shouldn’t be allowed to do business in the UK. The Tories are also absolute scumbags though, and people still vote for them, so maybe those people are fine with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Wilkos Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 P&O Ferries? More like, P&D'oh Ferries. (D'oh is the noise Homer Simpson makes when he is annoyed (see pic below) and I imagine those laid off today will be annoyed). 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Will this impact on the EIHL? There are still quite a few games still to play in the season. For the Stenaline Belfast Giants? Doubt it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thane of Cawdor Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 hours ago, djchapsticks said: From here, the only correct course of action is to hoist the Jolly Roger, get the chanties CD on over the tannoy, set sail for the Seven Seas and spend the rest of your lives as pirates going on quests for dubloons and wenches. is that some form of chamber (pot} music? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorongil Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 52 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: DP World don't give a flying f**k about HR and presumably they had their legal eagles ensure that they had a cast-iron case before they pulled the trigger. Capitalism red in tooth & claw, you seem to have been an advocate for same in a lot of your posts, no ? There’s no way they’ve had legal advice to say this was ok. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsOfficialMoaner Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, Thorongil said: There’s no way they’ve had legal advice to say this was ok. What'll happen next then? The Brit's get in a league fight drawn out for years ? For the time being, the foreigner take their jobs? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post O'Kelly Isley III Posted March 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2022 Whilst I echo the disgust and fury over this action, something seriously doesn't add up here. Anyone who equates summarily sacking 800 'British rate' crew members and replacing them with licensed galley slaves and making a dent in reported annual losses of £100M is IMO completely missing the point. No, this is the laying of the first brick in The New Model Britain the Tories, and Sunak in particular, are intent on building. Someone mentioned freeports, those light touch tax scams which operate to a model which benefit business at the expense of employee rights and the taxpayer. Dubai Ports are a key player here. P & O' Ferries action today is merely the portent for a wave of similar shaftings - once the political and media hand-wringing subsides expect much more of the same across a range of industries. 34 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, O'Kelly Isley III said: Someone mentioned freeports, those light touch tax scams which operate to a model which benefit business at the expense of employee rights and the taxpayer. Dubai Ports are a key player here. "DP World, one of the largest port operators in the world, is owned by Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund, and chaired by Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, who also heads Dubai’s customs authority. The group owns London Gateway port – the centrepiece of the first of the controversial freeports championed by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, and established by the government last year." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/04/free-ports-or-sleaze-ports-rishi-sunaks-dream-of-tax-free-zones-about-to-become-reality "Five years ago a young, unknown MP wrote a pamphlet for a Thatcherite thinktank extolling the benefits of free ports. Now that Rishi Sunak is chancellor, his dream for Britain is – for good or ill – fast becoming reality. This week, alliances of port owners, businesses and local authorities must submit their bids to establish free ports, competing to set up zones exempt from normal tax and regulation. Proponents say free ports can attract investment to areas that have been left woefully short, bringing jobs and prosperity to deprived regions as part of the “levelling up” agenda, helping prioritise greener industry, and breathing new life into, say, the former Redcar steelworks site, or the Grimsby docks. But others fear the move signals the creation of “mini-tax havens” and a race to the bottom on regulation, keeping revenues from councils and the Treasury to line the pockets of business and landowners, with profits sent offshore rather than reinvested in the UK." ETA - "DP World has also come under fire for a £146m deficit in the Merchant Navy Ratings pension fund, which includes retired P&O crew. Sources said the taxpayer could be liable for the shortfall if it was left unpaid. DP World last year agreed to sponsor the European golf tour – at a cost of £147m." Edited March 17, 2022 by Florentine_Pogen 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 The SNP are doing Freeports as well but insulting our intelligence in the process by calling them Greenports. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 50 minutes ago, Detournement said: The SNP are doing Freeports as well but insulting our intelligence in the process by calling them Greenports. Probably because they can blame the Greens if it goes tits up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 If we were a small country with almost no internal economic activity freeports would be a great idea. As it stands, they're just enterprise zones with added customs loopholes. Might boost the local areas but might cost the country a bit more. Who knows. Unsurprising that Tory industrial policy is a mixture of classics and tax dodging. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 10 hours ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said: What'll happen next then? The Brit's get in a league fight drawn out for years ? For the time being, the foreigner take their jobs? More than 8 games to go, then? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 6 hours ago, Detournement said: The SNP are doing Freeports as well but insulting our intelligence in the process by calling them Greenports. Yes they are on both counts. Freeports have been aggressively marketed by the UK Government as some sort of quick fix for decades of decline in a number of coastal locations - Middlesbrough is a good example, where a 'charismatic' Tory mayor has been very vocal in support. It is all being branded as part of the fabled levelling up exercise, whereas in reality it likely result in a serious levelling down of wages and employment rights which in post-EU Britain will quickly seep out to other activities, as well as disadvantaging other businesses in the locale. Instead of trying to put a green tartan label on this idea the SNP should have challenged it head-on by calling out the considerable downsides and presenting an alternative modus operandii. The only problem with that is that people like Andrew Wilson probably regard freeports as some sort of panacea. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 17 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said: Yes they are on both counts. Freeports have been aggressively marketed by the UK Government as some sort of quick fix for decades of decline in a number of coastal locations - Middlesbrough is a good example, where a 'charismatic' Tory mayor has been very vocal in support. It is all being branded as part of the fabled levelling up exercise, whereas in reality it likely result in a serious levelling down of wages and employment rights which in post-EU Britain will quickly seep out to other activities, as well as disadvantaging other businesses in the locale. Instead of trying to put a green tartan label on this idea the SNP should have challenged it head-on by calling out the considerable downsides and presenting an alternative modus operandii. The only problem with that is that people like Andrew Wilson probably regard freeports as some sort of panacea. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Get that cunt from Airdrie on to sing those shite sailor songs he does, that'll make them feel better. No, not Jason Leitch, the other one. Can't mind his name. Nathan something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Get that c**t from Airdrie on to sing those shite sailor songs he does, that'll make them feel better. No, not Jason Leitch, the other one. Can't mind his name. Nathan something. I think he'd be far better use on the front line in Ukraine 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Get that c**t from Airdrie on to sing those shite sailor songs he does, that'll make them feel better. No, not Jason Leitch, the other one. Can't mind his name. Nathan something. Sergeant Wilson? He’d eat them before they had a chance to complain. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 13 hours ago, BFTD said: As an aside, just looked up the website for DP World, and it's not what I was expecting. I always found the guys from DP World to be a bit stuck up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Crew fucked by DP. Difficult to get all the seamen out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 16 hours ago, N5 Spur said: If it hasn't been previously mentioned, and I don't see that is the case, I think it's important to make the distinction between P&O Ferries and P&O Cruises - they are now separate entities with the ferry company being owned by Dubai Ports World and the cruise outfit being owned by the Carnival Corporation. I reckon the cruise company are going to suffer due to name association There's every chance that P&B might take a hit here too. Pray for Div (who's got his own boat to maintain). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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