(not satire – it’s the UK today)
Over a hundred and seventy years after Dickens published a Christmas Carol, meet Ebenezer Scrooge 2014:
You can read all about how Moulton sacked his staff and couldn’t even be bothered to tell them here:
UKIP supporter and fat city cat Jon Moulton sacks 2,727 of his staff on Xmas Day
But Moulton is not just a fabulously wealthy fat city cat who doesn’t give a sh*t about British workers. He’s a prominent UKIP supporter too. And a good example of just how nasty some of the people behind UKIP are.
Here are some quotes:
Moulton on making people redundant: “You can never fire anyone too soon”
Moulton’s description of the people he has fired: “cutting away unnecessaries”
Moulton on why there should be even more austerity: “It’s the moral thing to do and it’s the right thing to do.”
Moulton on why there needs to be more cuts to public services such as the NHS: “I don’t believe that the UK economy will do well until the public sector shrinks.”
Moulton on how much he loved making companies bankrupt when he worked as an accountant: “Insolvency was great.”
Moulton on his great love for Margaret Thatcher: “”Without Mrs Thatcher I probably would have stayed working in the US, watching the UK decay rapidly.”
Moulton on his approach to making a profit: “We come and make redundancies, close facilities, take the costs of out of a P&L and in a month or two, profits come back.”
Moulton on his first experiences of dealing with bankruptcies and redundancies: “Firing people, selling factories and stock. It was great fun.”
Moulton on why he loves his job – which often involves sacking thousands of people: ” I do what I do for the enjoyment it gives me.”
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What a nasty little chap!
Obviously personality disordered in some way. A tragedy our social systems allow these type of people to become dominant.
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Tom has made Jon Moulton appear to be something he is not. City Link was making losses before he took over. He tried to save it but failed. It would have gone bust earlier if he hadn’t tried to save it. He is in the business of turning companies around.
Tom has used selective quoting to push his view, something typical of political activists particularly those on the left who thinks its criminal to be a successful business man.
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I’d like to see this fucker fired, myself. Preferably out of a very large cannon, aimed at an immovable object. With IDS, Gideot and Cameron lined up behind him to go next, in that order.
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Clearly UKIP leave no stone unturned in their search for suitable sponsors. Surely no decent human could vote for a party financed by this sort of tainted money, but I guess they will.
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Tom one of your links is FT which requires loggin in and signing up .
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Jon Moulton, the modern Ebenezer Scrooge, stands condemned from his own mouth with these very telling, and disgusting quotations. This is the real face of the City and UKIP, despite the spin and waffle of the Tories and Farage.
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Perhaps someone should edit his Wikipedia profile. It makes him look like a saint (Put a note in the talk page first to tell Wiki people what you’re about)
I may not like much of his politics, but he’d been trying to save a failing business (we are told) but if other businesses are thriving why not his?
He should have also treated his permanent staff more humanely perhaps, but how many of those 2727 were contractors who were expecting to finish at Christmas anyway?
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Ugly bitter bald men in glasses need to do something to make themselves feel important and worthwhile, after all he seems pretty generic and unoriginal. I feel sad that people think a strong economy is the only thing that matters, the strongest economies are very slow growing and stable, built around excellent services like the NHS and education. He is trying to go for an instant result to make a drastic impact to make it seem like he is doing a good job when if you go about it in such a bullish way you create long term instability. Not an intelligent way to do things. Things like this make me so happy I am a gardener, being happy and a nice person makes life so much more enjoyable, and I know this as have worked for some very rich people and so many of them are miserable. If I ever worked for a person like this though they would totally end up with a willy drawn in weed killer on their lawn.
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aharrr jim lad pieces of 8….
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all of us 1st with the common weal… http://www.allofusfirst.org/the-key-ideas/why-we-must-invest/
‘What investment is not is speculation. More often than not in Me-First economics vested interests refer to ‘investment’ when what they really mean is ‘speculation’. Investment grows the totality – if you didn’t do it, the total wouldn’t be as big. It is a route to improvement. Speculation does not seek to grow the totality but simply capture a bigger share of it for yourself. So to ‘invest in land’ should mean ‘to spend money making land better and more productive’, not ‘to buy land, do nothing with it and hope its value rises so it can be sold on to someone else unimproved’
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This is the way people, and workers are used and abused in the U.K. I and my colleagues were given our notice on Valentines day on the 14/02/1997. Our large departmental chemist store was taken over by the German pharmaceutical giant GE HA. a few years beforehand. Each of the employees were sent to the office halfway through the day, and given notice forthwith, and paid for 3 months redundancy in advance. It is ironic that the Germans are not allowed to treat their employers in the same way, and they are compelled to retrain their workforce. It was said that GE HA was going to do this months before they did it, but we put it down to rumour!
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linda
and the rumour causes/triggers frozen anx and panic, can cause bullying ie last in 1st out goading…so the workers work their socks off, hoping if they worked harder the company would be saved, but instead, as in many cases, all they have done is to increase wealth for the proprietor…who intend to break up the company in any case asset strip it and throw away/sell off the carcass and/or debt…which is why redundancy is never pleasant….sometimes to be sacked….without the torturous months of not knowing ie the fear of the unknown is often hell….is better for health, although still bad for health and wellbeing…the whole business is never clear cut as some try to suggest….
perhaps, more or less to the principle if you’re a good worker why would you be sacked applies in the minds of some..going to tribunal is nerve racking and costly in any case, most would rather forget it and spend valuable time finding a new job…it’s being between a rock and hard place, an archaic system that has no business in the 21st century..intent plays a very big role in feeling secure…or perhaps the intention is to re-employ personnel on different terms and conditions…most people aren’t blessed with massive reserves of resources and live hand to mouth…most jobs that are available for the working classes in our economy, are as servants/service industry/retail.. see common weal for solutions…
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30603162 citylink employees share their views…
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I am U.K.I.P. and have been a member for over 10 years.
When I was made redundant on Valentines back in 1997, we had a Labour government, and it was a Labour government when the Great British Iconic Cadbury was bought by the American company Kraft.
The Lib, Lab, Con have all had their hands on the reigns of power, and have made this country what it is today, and has had its hand in the shaping of the E.U., we ask ourselves, are we happy with their work?
U.K.I.P. cannot have the finger pointed at them for any rotten policies that have dogged the three established political parties, and is not implicated in their disgusting historical child abuse that is, and has gone on in local, and national government, dragging our country down to the depths of despair and hopelessness!
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linda
so the uk gov shaped european policy, which it has, leaving europe won’t solve the problem of political uk mismanagement and incompetence…the problem is within uk structures, not european structure’s, as you rightly point out…
so you advocate that the uk should be reformed, as the problem is, as you rightly point out, with the uk establishment…but hen ukip is for indy from who? europe and/or wm? i like the idea of indy, yes for indyscot…the uk is not a country, scotland is and scots do definitely want indy from a union, i always thought that ukip don’t like unions either?…a the majority of scots want to stay in the EU and become indy of the UK…what a pickle, eh! but you are right to imply ukip, and nicely put, should fight for indy from it’s self..
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Are we going to address the real issue of Britain in the E.U.?
Can, and should the U.K. have it’s sovereignty in it’s entirety, soul, and right, returned to its people?
I, and many people think we should, and share a healthy, respectful, trade and cooperative relationship with Europe and the rest of the world!
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I doubt he just fired them, they need to have pre released information, and city link are one of the private companies that sprng up to replace the royal mail because the government thought that it was a good idea to flog off everything to the private sector. This is what happens in the private sector companies go broke people get made redundant and whichever party he supports has nothing to do with it.
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This story is grotesque in its falsity. City Link has been losing money for years. Unlike a nationalised industry of old, it had shareholders and they had lost a lot of money. Two very large competitors were approached to buy/ take over the business to protect jobs. Neither were interested at all.
There comes a point when a company in the situation like This one loses the support of its Bankers and the Directors hands are forced. The author of this snivelling piece of tripe is perfectly well aware of that.
As for suggesting that Moulton enjoys dismissing people, I hope he sues the author rigid.
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linda
‘Are we going to address the real issue of Britain in the E.U.?
Can, and should the U.K. have it’s sovereignty in it’s entirety, soul, and right, returned to its people?
I, and many people think we should, and share a healthy, respectful, trade and cooperative relationship with Europe and the rest of the world!’
so you answer my post with another question, i see….and you point out that it’s the imperial uk that has caused the problems and not the eu…so we actually need to reform the uk, indy from ukwm imo is best….each country a republic with it’s own parliament…
ukip are obviously not a party of social justice and equality for all….to have emotional health (freedom) we all need vitality giving vitals of life on demand, which is the crux of the REAL issue…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGXQG8hyXzA for this one day in glasgow 45000 people applied for tickets…30000 people were disappointed…our indy movement grows now well over 50% now want indy, and failing that 68% want devo-max (everything bar defence and foreign policy)…the snp are on course for over 47 seats @ wm…ukip want release from eu…scotland wants release from uk…smith has promised nothing and will deliver nothing….
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Overburdeneddonkey look Scotland if you want independence just do it convincingly and plough your own furrow, just stop bl££:y winging, the UK has done well for you over the years as has Scotland been a great partner in the UK, no animosity but just GO
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no matter which way you look at it, there is the wrong way and the right way for employers and the employees.
fairness in wages, and fairness in profit.
A leaf out of the German book where they built their manufacturing base, and re-trained their workers, and now they are the country who does well in the E.U. and every young person is guaranteed an apprenticeship, and the workforce enjoy hardly any unemployment
The U.K. on the other hand allowed their manufacturing base to dismantle, then used North sea oil to keep thousands and thousands of skilled workers of every category on the dole, this started to happen in the late sixties, and we have never properly recovered to this day.
Business has been relying on skilled foreign workers, hence the nigh on 1 million unemployed under 24 year old’s, and this number of unemployed has stubbornly stayed the same today, as when Labour left office in 2010.
This situation has been the North East, and Midlands shame for many years, and the political elite are far removed from most parts of the U.K., and live in the London bubble, The Bubble being the only real thriving part of Britain.
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We want our country’s sovereignty back, our own laws, our own self determination, , whats so wrong about that? The British people voted for a Common market, not a federalist superstate of Europe which is being imposed on us. Look up the history, and learn the truth of the whole E.U. farce!
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nobby
nothing to whinge about, the power of the indyref movement is here to stay…this country is on fire with passion for freedom….odd that you say speaking of our stunningly successful movement for democratic change is whinging, and not inspirational….snp membership has soared from 20000 to over 100000 in a few weeks post indyref… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWP5h6RqknA a small meeting in perth, the next week was in glasgow filled seats @ record speed, 12000 attended… numbers and passion for change that other PP’s can only dream of, whinge no not i, tis you who whinge…be inspired, as are we….
linda hudson… the UK is NOT repeat NOT a country…
and i also note that you do not engage in conversation, for someone who wants soul and sovereignty back, is very odd…social engagement is a predominate to human endeavour….
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your ranting me dear, cannot have a conversation with ranters, you want to cut U.K into little pieces, but want a European union to head your your country, so get on with it, and good luck!
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linda
no! i’m not ranting, but you are…but, i’ve obviously got my point across….
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you sure got your political goal across for all to see Mr, overburdoneddonkey, wish you went by your real name!
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