OT:Rover shocker.

On or around Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:35:37 +0100, "/\\/ / & E" enlightened us thusly:

there's an election coming up - politicos will promise the world and everything in it, tomorrow, provided you re-elect us.

can't believe how many people manage to be fooled by this.

It's hardly a first. UK and European money is routinely pumped into areas of high unemployment to boost skills and seed new economic development. I live in a European Objective 1 area which has received

Of course, many would argue that lots of the money is spent on beaureacracy and I wouldn't argue with that. I think lots of it is also wasted on projects which don't deliver real value, but some of it does deliver and makes a difference. Lots of new businesses have sprung up or been supported by these ventures - I'm a director of two of them!

The alternative is to keep people on the dole, don't train them, don't give them new opportunities. And to lose lots of votes....

So as we're paying for them, does that mean i can trundle down to the local dealership and take my car home?

Si

Nope - the money we're paying is largely to pay a weeks wages, so we should all demand a rover worker comes round and spends some time working on our vehicles for us (after all, it's not like they're busy building rover cars now...)

Paul

They don't build very good cars to start with, so I wouldn't trust a production line monkey to do any work on any vehicle of mine.

They could come and do the garden instead.

So /\/ / & E was, like

Better to spend money on cushioning the blow to the poor sods made unemployed, and help with retraining etc, than to pump unlimited cash into propping up a failing business that's going nowhere. Labour 1970s vs Labour

As others have said, the imminent election is not unconnected with the Govt's generosity here.

I don't think they are doing very much that wouldn't be done anyway, they are just making rather more song and dance about it.