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Leighton reckons we aint got it in us

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Night Tonic
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Post by Night Tonic »

It does not follow that I am any more comfortable with it than you or anyone else. Its just a fact. We're not the ONLY country in this postition either.
greynut
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Re: Leighton reckons we aint got it in us

Post by greynut »

[quote="BB brother"][quote="greynut"][quote="krooserman1802"]Read this colleagues. half way down the page Leighton states ;_

"Is his walkabout magic wearing off? Leighton, sitting in front of a poster of the Rocky Mountains at Loblaw, shakes his head. and had to do something about it. There will be no strike, he predicts. “The last round wore everyone
out, and nothing changed, and nothing is going to change what has been agreed over pensions.â€
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greynut

Post by F0zziebear »

Rarely do I say this but I have to agree with your sentiments.

Whilst everyone else was jumping on the Labour bandwagon I had a horrible feeling in my stomach. I feel I will proved right after at least ten years of mortgaging this country we now find that we can't afford our negative equity property called Britannia. The winner is Blair in all this as he essentially sold his property at the top of the ladder and is now reaping laods of cosy contracts at various companies.
Brown on the other hand has completely mis-judged his old 'dictactor' friend Blair. Blair only gave up the running of the country once he saw that this country's economy is about to go pear-shaped. Brown will be left with a country in tatters, and then the Conservatives will come into power in 18 months times with this country on it's knees.

As for Leighton he talks nonense a lot of the time. He might have walked the floor a couple of times but doens't do it anymore. As for reading everyone's emails, thats bull, he employs someone else to reply on his behalf. He was there when Leeds Utd mortgaged everything for Europe, almost got there and then came crumbling down as it was a high risk strategy.
I do admire some of his approach and do not want to sound like I am contradicting what I have said before.

It sickens me how top senior mgmt do get way above inflation rises without consequencial elements written into their contracts. It doesn't mean to say they are not worth what they are paid relative to someone else in the company or the indsutry/sector as a whole, but when you screw-up you should not be getting golden handshakes.

It's not worth banging on about Leighton he has worked hard and got his rewards, whether you agree with them or not. He has banked plenty to keep logs on the fire durnig this forthcoming Depression. I won't call it a recession as that indicates we might get off lightly. This is a true depression and when 3million homeowners re-apply for their mortgages in the next 12 months look at their faces, that is depression.

F0zzie - wishing on a prayer
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Post by Budfrog »

BELIAL wrote:Maybe since we now operate in a commercial environment we should adopt pricing structures used by other successful enterprises. Utility companies and hedge fund managers etc. will charge you for basic access to their services and then demand a percentage for profit on top. So if an adshot raises 10 mill revenue we take 10% on top of the postage?
Just had a letter from Virgin Media informing me that my daytime landline calls will be having a 'small' increase. This 'small' increase is from 3.25p per minute to 4.00p per minute Mon-Fri.

Very 'small' at 23%, just think what the media and PostCon would make of a 23% increase in postal charges (inc downstream).
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Post by BB brother »

All Good ! Greynut.


And they call us Lefties :hmmmm

Lol
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Re: Leighton reckons we aint got it in us

Post by borders »

[quote="greynut"][quote="BB brother"][quote="greynut"][quote="krooserman1802"]Read this colleagues. half way down the page Leighton states ;_

"Is his walkabout magic wearing off? Leighton, sitting in front of a poster of the Rocky Mountains at Loblaw, shakes his head. and had to do something about it. There will be no strike, he predicts. “The last round wore everyone
out, and nothing changed, and nothing is going to change what has been agreed over pensions.â€
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Post by pinstripe »

Sorry I get confused, which is Labour and which are the Tories? Ah, remember the good old days when you know which political party was doing you over (sigh).
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Re: greynut

Post by johnsonrmc »

F0zziebear wrote:
As for Leighton he talks nonense a lot of the time.

F0zzie - wishing on a prayer
"

Amen, to that comment, very true.
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Post by BELIAL »

Must apologise for my really bad memory, can anybody remind me which of the tory anti union laws New labour have revoked?
BB brother
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Post by BB brother »

Theres was un E.U. law that came in about a year ago that gave unions,i think,almost semi partnerships in the running of certain buisnesses.

Now, the not so difficult question is ! Did Blair sign up to it ?


Yes or no answer....

You have three guesses ! LOL


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Post by BELIAL »

Can I do 50/50
Night Tonic
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Post by Night Tonic »

Or phone a friend -and it WON'T be Brown
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Post by DGP1 »

Best not ask the audience then :d'oh!
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