Maggie and Sid’s (kid’s etc) clever trick when the denationalised everything in the ‘80s was to offload the gold-plated BT/British Rail/British Airways etc pension schemes to the shiny, new private companies. All closed now, of course to new employees, but as we saw with British Steel, a major financial noose around the neck of even the most giant of companies. Perhaps, like the Gove and Johnson Brexit gang, they’re assuming they won’t win and so will cross that bridge only if they have to…
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
