If the crew refuse to leave the ships, is that piracy?
Even by the piss poor standards set by British Airways & British Gas, what P&O have just done is absolutely sickening.
If the crew refuse to leave the ships, is that piracy?
Fire sale of assets incoming.
Matheson will buy a cross-channel ferry on Bangers and Cash to run from Lochboisdale to Castlebay.
Genius.
Workers co-operative ferries?
Nah, that’s a time gone bye.
Aye, that Capitalism is the boy.
There’ll be a bailout. A dog returns to its own vomit, and that.
Socialism for the capitalists, austerity for the untermenschen.
“Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.”
P and O was co-founded by Lerwick boy, Arthur Anderson, who also funded the building of main Shetland School in Lerwick, originally known as the Anderson Institute, now known as the Anderson High School whose motto was and still is “Do weel and Persevere” - he’d be turning in his grave!
But it's owned by the government of UAE
Now, they committed the deed on Thursday morning.
Who do you think was over there talking to the boss on Wednesday?