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(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
City Financier and prominent UKIP supporter Jon Moulton sacked 2,727 of his staff on Christmas Day after deciding to put City Link into administration.
Moulton didn’t even bother to tell his employees – most of them found out via the press that they will be receiving no more pay after the 31st of December.
But no-one should be surprised by Moulton’s Scrooge-like, heartless behaviour.
Moulton is a former Conservative Party donor, who decided to transfer his allegiance to UKIP after criticising Tory chancellor George Osborne for not cutting hard enough and for being too soft on austerity.
And you can expect much more of this kind of fat city cat behaviour across the country should UKIP ever manage to get its hands on the reins of power (God help us).
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More on Jon Moulton here:
Meet Ebenezer Scrooge 2014: sacking people is “great fun”
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It’s very sad that they’ve gone bust, and a rotten thing to do to make the announcement on Christmas Day.
That said, I’m really not surprised that City Link has gone belly up. Their customer service was atrocious, constantly losing packages or saying they’ve delivered something when they haven’t. Somebody I know sent a package which was recorded as “left safe in porch” to a house that doesn’t have a porch.
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Sad, but unfortunately, true. When a neo-Thatcherite buys the company you work for for no more than a pound (Sterling) you can be fairly certain something ‘dodgy’ is happening. Former Labour voters, enthralled by certain aspects of UKIP, need to be aware that the likes of Farage or Moulton will ‘shaft’ them. ‘Working class’ votes good; ‘working class’ generally — they should ‘doff’ their plebian caps!
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It’s clear from this that Scrooge is alive and well and giving money to UKIP and the Tories. Truly, these are the parties that read Dickens, but didn’t understand him or like his message, except when cosily packaged on biscuit tins as part of the heritage industry.
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“UKIP supporter and fat city cat Jon Moulton sacks 2,727 of his staff on Xmas Day”
Actually they were made redundant. There is a huge legal and practical difference. It’s best to understand such things before writing about them. The timing was obviously appalling, but to deliberately delay calling in the administrators until after Christmas would have been illegal.
What the company should have done was involve the workforce and unions at an earlier stage, when the rumours about financial problems started circulating.
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UKIP does tend to attract dodgy individuals, with little awareness of social issues. Incidentally, I have not come across any “former Labour voters, enthralled by certain aspects of UKIP”. I have done a lot of cavassing for Labour and found that UKIP tends to get its support from former Conservatives.
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Reblogged on http://www.dicklannister.com.John Moulton has been an avid supporter of our Institute of Mediocre Management for years. Lovely chap, we used to shoot peasants together at Thatcher Hall in the 70’s
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“Actually they were made redundant”.
Nitpicking. They’re still out of work, and to find out from the press is deplorable and despicable behaviour.
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FitzNicely – No, it’s not nitpicking. It makes a fundamental difference to possible redundancy payments, and to their prospects of getting another job.
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What’s worse is that they announced it to the media without bothering to inform the staff!
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Erwot – Nonsense. All law allows scope for the application of good judgement and empathy. We’re talking about a time window of only three working days – imagine how much this fellow would complain if regulators insisted upon that kind of micro-management of business operations!
A competent business owner working with a competent administrator would have no problems whatsoever announcing the redundancies in the New Year. When decisions like this are made, it is not because it is required by law. It is a choice. And it is a cruel and inhumane one.
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ContrastingSounds – Are you saying that City Link and Ernst & Young should have covered up the insolvency until after the New Year (i.e. another week) and this would have been both legal and better for the employees, customers, creditors etc.? I think you are wrong, but (as I said) there is a very valid criticism for them not taking action sooner.
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By coincidence I saw a City Link van delivering on xmas eve, about 5 pm – I was suprised they were working that late.
Had that driver known then what he undoubtedly knows now, would he have knocked off early ?
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Riiight… so he’s taking jobs away from hardworking Britons. Will the party he supports consider him an honorary Romanian? 😛
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As long as they were not taking from customers knowing they could not deliver I dont see why they could not have delayed until the first working day after the holiday the people who deal with the paper work would not be working until then anyway.
Erwot why dont you openly say that you support the capitalist system instead of spouting legalistic bull shit that means nothing to people who WORK for a living or did until they were shafted Your only criticism is that he should have acted earlier
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edmcarthur – “As long as they were not taking from customers knowing they could not deliver…”
Precisely! Not only would they have to refuse any new customer contracts received between Christmas and New Year, they would also have to immediately cancel ongoing contracts with their big customers like John Lewis. If they did not do so then somebody would be going to jail for taking money in the knowledge that services could not possibly be provided. I think somebody might have noticed! Let me suggest that you don’t ever get involved in any cover-ups, you’re not very good at it!
“Erwot why dont you openly say that you support the capitalist system”
Do you have an alternative? I would be most interested!
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Clearly ‘Erwot’ doesn’t understand the difference between ‘redundacy’ and being ‘sacked’. The former, should a trades union be involved, will involve ‘terms and conditions’, perhaps, some severance package, and other tedious labour movement stuff such as that; being ‘sacked’ without being told that may be a possibility is … ‘profit’ before people.
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Is this an attack on ukip ?, why has ukip been mentioned at the start of this news story ?. I think you people know why, yes another example of media neuro linguistic programing, read between the lines, attach bad news to political party.
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R Wood – No, it’s you who doesn’t understand the difference. To put it simply for simple people like you… “redundant” means that the job is no longer there, whilst “sacked” means that the job is still there but the employee has been removed from it.
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preston – The answer to your first question is “Yes”.
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hark who now speaks for the downtrodden….the holder of the sabre that rattles always in favour of the SQ….could this be a newly formed protege we witness?
no it is not tom i speak of, who does weed out pernicious rascals and always does a fine job imo…but one of latter acquaintance….i must say being made redundant is marginally better than being sacked…both mean one has no longer any paid employment…oh great joy nip to jcp tout de suite, for a job no problem there…flambe pud dowsed in tears all very quaint and reassuring…ah! britishness @ it’s very best…’pack all your troubles in your old kit bag and smile smile smile…’ one day someone will make a cracking song and dance out of it….’what’s the use of worrying….’
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OBD – “the holder of the sabre that rattles always in favour of the SQ” – Status quo? Or perhaps that considered and careful change makes more sense than blind revolution for revolution’s sake…
“i must say being made redundant is marginally better than being sacked” – They don’t compare, because if you were sacked (and it was not an unfair dismissal) then it was your fault.
Do pernicious rascals not also have a right to existence, as well as the obvious ability to do so… and maybe also serve a greater purpose as a questioning thorn in the side of prevailing opinion in the current forum?
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‘Or perhaps that considered and careful change makes more sense than blind revolution for revolution’s sake…’ meaning i assume you actually want people to listen, take note, and not rub people up the wrong way?
you have a strange way of getting attention…
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OBD – Or maybe sometimes people listen and take note BECAUSE you rub them up the wrong way…?
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not as much as you do, i’d wager…
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OBD – Sometimes people listen, take note and reply… and sometimes even when the said they never would!
Judge my arguments by the content of what I say, ask or reply – nothing else.
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Erwot, OBD has outed you as being none other than Finkfust…. a sly ploy, but it has fooled no one, because we know your irascible style, which you cannot disguise. Happy UKIP Kristmass…May santa bring you many toys.
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Never before, when a big boss has sacked his staff have I ever read anything to do with their voting choice? These Crackpots will do ANYTHING to try and find something to smear UKIP with, no matter how weak.
After sneering down their elitist noses at your average White Van driving working class Bloke, the Labour party have lost a lot of working class support, it is UKIP that are now known as the party for the working class.
I come from a traditional Labour voting family but ‘most’ of us have now switched to UKIP.
Well done UKIP, well done Nigel Farage, from now on it’s UKIP all the way!
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Hi Jim, – so you went from ‘traditional’ Labour (Left) to extreme Right? What was your thinking in that irrational swing? Did you consider the Green party during this incredible journey? As for UKIP being ‘now known as the party for the working class’, wake up before it’s too late, there will be no Party further from the working class once they get a bit of power. They will use you as civil fodder.
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Niche info, you blog good themes I like
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Erwot, sacking simply means to deprive someone of employment, irrespective of whether there remains a job there or not. As for the timing, they were not legally bound to announce this on Christmas Day – a non business day. Any decent human being would also have advised the staff first. You are full of it, like most neoliberal apologists.
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There is no need to smear UKIP; they do a great job all by themselves.
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Ive just read the link An early entry refers to “parcels left in a secure porch when the house doesn’t have a porch” and it happened to me with some work trousers that went missing not once but twice! If that’s the usual behavior of the workforce then no wonder that they went tits up! I dont care if the boss is left wing, right wing or a center forward he aint going to keep paying for parcels that his work force leaves in imaginary places is he?
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Anyone who knew Jon Moulton at university knows that he has always been comfortable being in front. He drove his MG in rallies, which may partly explain his later interest in MG-Rover, but which certainly made him look like a capitalist toff at the time of the three-day week when most students couldn’t afford a bicycle. He relished his image, then as now. He seems to behave like a well-parented psychopath might, and he has a simple mantra: making money is a good thing. His driven, business-focused work ethic necessarily implies ignorance of wider issues (there just isn’t enough time) so he should be completely comfortable at a UKIP party meeting.
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I’m hunting for links that prove the evil Jon Moulton is either bankrolling or a high flyer in UKIP. There are only bigoted and prejudiced smears and innuendo from an assortment of misguided red rats.
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