Rover shutdown ??

So Ian Rawlings was, like

You've reminded me of another pet hate of mine. In the Patricia Hewitt Radio 4 interview, she was banging on about the help that was going to be given to the Rover suppliers as "£40m of taxpayers' money". Every other time in the last 8 years that they wanted to spend my money on something, it was always an "investment". It was only Mrs Thatcher who seemed to know where it came from and called it "taxpayers' money". Now why would New Labour want to spin it this way, a few weeks before an election?

In article , Larry writes

I thought it was the early 1970's :-) (shortly after being merged in BL

- coincidence ?)

Adrian

but the estimates I've seen are for another 10,000 unemployed that's £200 pound each on the dole so that's 2 million quid a week we've got to fork out with no return at all

just a thought that's all

In message , Andy.Smalley writes

But in time many will be re-employed. You simply cannot keep pumping money into failed businesses, otherwise we would still be supporting capacity in shipbuilding, aerospace, steel making, coal mining, etc etc.

There are different reasons for these failures but largely ineffective and weak management at some stage, and, at times, an intransigent workforce. Unfortunately MG Rover seemed to have gone beyond the point of no return when BMW took over.

ISTR that the vote-grabbers were talking about pumping cash into the secondary industries that would be hit by Rover collapsing, which is more sensible.

Just a thought, and on-topic at that, I wonder if any of these suppliers also make Land Rover spares for the independent market.