Richard Branson

[sinkov]

We will pay unemployment benefit. Let Virgin go to the wall.

The perfect example of why you Lefties spend all your time in oppostion BT, you'd rather pursue a personal vendetta against a capitalist and capitalism in general, rather than save the jobs of thousands of ordinary people. And those ordinary people know how you lefties think, so they won't vote for you.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The perfect example of why you Lefties spend all your time in oppostion BT, you'd rather pursue a personal vendetta against a capitalist and capitalism in general, rather than save the jobs of thousands of ordinary people. And those ordinary people know how you lefties think, so they won't vote for you.

Don't talk bloody daft sinkov. Branson and his mates talk about "survival of the fittest", yet fall back on the taxpayer as soon as the sh-it hits the fan. I don't recall you wanting to save thousands of miners jobs or wanting the government to bail out the remnants of British Steel?

I seem to recall (or perhaps someone else on here) mentioning a firm in Sheffield who were doing a marvellous job making specialist steel and saving a few jobs? Perhaps Branson could open a few record stores somewhere?

[sinkov]

Don't talk bloody daft sinkov. Branson and his mates talk about "survival of the fittest", yet fall back on the taxpayer as soon as the sh-it hits the fan. I don't recall you wanting to save thousands of miners jobs or wanting the government to bail out the remnants of British Steel?

I seem to recall (or perhaps someone else on here) mentioning a firm in Sheffield who were doing a marvellous job making specialist steel and saving a few jobs? Perhaps Branson could open a few record stores somewhere?

Shocking wasn't it what happened to those miners jobs BT, bloody Tories, evil witch Thatcher, and it was all planned for well in advance.

"The challenge from other fuels will not let up. It is only by going forward with its modernisation plan and concentrating on the most economic pits that the coal industry will be viable…In the next few years the number of miners will fall by 35,000 per year…The country cannot afford excessive protection for any of its industries if we are to compete in world markets, we must aim for cheaper energy. Over the last ten years the number of miners has been reduced from over 700,000 to under 400,000 an average fall of 30,000 a year"

B@stards, only 400,000 miners left and they were planning to lay the poor buggers off at a rate of 30,000 a year, they knew that in ten years time there'd only be 100,000 left, the industry would be dead on it's feet. Fecking Torys eh, fecking w@ankers, cruel, heartless b@stards, except this is from Labour's 1967 White Paper on Fuel, Thatcher was still an insignificant backbench Tory MP, it was 12 years before she became PM, but you Lefties never let the truth stand in the way of a good story do you BT, Wilson closed hundreds more pits than Saint Margaret ever did, but best keep that a secret eh.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Shocking wasn't it what happened to those miners jobs BT, bloody Tories, evil witch Thatcher, and it was all planned for well in advance.

"The challenge from other fuels will not let up. It is only by going forward with its modernisation plan and concentrating on the most economic pits that the coal industry will be viable…In the next few years the number of miners will fall by 35,000 per year…The country cannot afford excessive protection for any of its industries if we are to compete in world markets, we must aim for cheaper energy. Over the last ten years the number of miners has been reduced from over 700,000 to under 400,000 an average fall of 30,000 a year"

B@stards, only 400,000 miners left and they were planning to lay the poor buggers off at a rate of 30,000 a year, they knew that in ten years time there'd only be 100,000 left, the industry would be dead on it's feet. Fecking Torys eh, fecking w@ankers, cruel, heartless b@stards, except this is from Labour's 1967 White Paper on Fuel, Thatcher was still an insignificant backbench Tory MP, it was 12 years before she became PM, but you Lefties never let the truth stand in the way of a good story do you BT, Wilson closed hundreds more pits than Saint Margaret ever did, but best keep that a secret eh.

They certainly got cheaper energy sinkov. They are flagging motorists down outside our local ESSO and begging them to buy petrol.

[sinkov]

They certainly got cheaper energy sinkov. They are flagging motorists down outside our local ESSO and begging them to buy petrol.

I don't get out much these days BT, how much is petrol now, they should be almost giving it away, but I'll bet it's still an arm and a leg to fill your tank up. It's times like this you realise it's not capitalist Big Oil ripping us off on the forecourt, but the government with their fuel tax and VAT.