Originally Posted by
Mick Stability
In a sickening parallel to the British car industry, British Leyland finally went under whilst its executive leadership were spending 70% of their time working out how to screw the staff. They were so busy trying to extract revenge over the unions, they lost sight of why they were in business in the first place, and simply forgot about the product.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history . . .
I'm somewhat surprised that this nonsense has gone unchallenged! I thought that 'Rover' went under while managers were busy ripping the heart out of it and coining it over the workforce. There was no revenge over the unions as they had already been declared impotent by being inflexible and threatening strikes at every drop of every hat. Other aspects of Leyland (e.g. Land Rover at Solihull and Mini at Oxford) seem to be doing reasonably ok - they have been through hard times admittedly but are still around.
If we are comparing ourselves to a defunct nationalised manufacturing poorhouse, then is there any real hope for us?
We can be better than that surely?