i think its scandalous that some workers ahve been there 15 years and are walking out with just 3 grand 
and some will walk out worse off because they were encouraged to buy rover cars through a lease scheme and now they are getting laid off and they still have to pay the cars off which in some cases will be more than the reduncy.
will it will solve the driver shortage in the west midlands in one swoop.
jessicas dad:
i think its scandalous that some workers ahve been there 15 years and are walking out with just 3 grandand some will walk out worse off because they were encouraged to buy rover cars through a lease scheme and now they are getting laid off and they still have to pay the cars off which in some cases will be more than the reduncy.
will it will solve the driver shortage in the west midlands in one swoop.
Not if some the jobs I see advertised are anything to go by
I just heard that they’re bringing out a new model - the P45!!!
brummie:
I just heard that they’re bringing out a new model - the P45!!!
Rover cars have been sold over here only sporadically, but they were invariably awful unreliable overpriced rust buckets. I actually knew somebody who was dumb enough to buy that Honda version they made (and sold over here as a “Sterling”, due to the damage done to the name “Rover” by that awful circa 1980 version sold here…), and that piece of junk broke down nearly every week. He thought he was getting Honda quality, but in reality, he was getting pure British unreliability. The car looked like it had oxidation cancer by the time it was 5 years old, and he ended up selling it for 1/20th what he paid for it only 5 years earlier. It had all of 40,000 miles on the clock at that point.
We have a joke over here:
Q: Why do the British drink warm beer?
A: Because the same companies that make the cars make the refrigerators as well!!
Well now that China have the rights to the Rover we will see them back on the markets shortly at half the price, and you can guarantee the quality will be better 
It looks like the new model may be called The Ayatollah
They wont have a vinyl roof but will have a cloth covering like a tea towel
If there is a new Rover factory built in Iran, The Americans will probably bomb it soon.
the search goes on for
WMD
West Midland Dustbins
The fallout has started…
Transport firm goes into administration due to MG Rover
Rikki-UK:
The fallout has started…
Transport firm goes into administration due to MG Rover
Sad to see, but probably inevitable, in any situation like this there are bound to be knock on effects and its usually the innocent that suffer most.
Good luck to everyone effected, there but for the grace of God go the rest of us, no job is safe these days.
Just seen on midday news that it’s all over for the Rover plant. The car transporter drivers will be looking for work now then.
I blame Poland.
Well they seem to be getting blamed for everything else at the moment. 
I wonder when they sell all the patterns and presses what the 25/45/75 will be rebadged as? My guess is Kia.
Maybe we will see Poles doing car transporter work too!! 
Some of the workers are blaming the Chinese, the Government, and people who bought peugeot and citroen cars. Who is really to blame I wonder?!!!
SMUDGER:
Some of the workers are blaming the … people who bought peugeot and citroen cars.
I heard that today and thought it was a silly comment. I really feel sorry for all those workers who will loose their jobs but the real blame lies with ‘the design’ of the cars.
I know 4 people who have bought brand new Rovers and at work we have probably had more than 15 of them as hire cars. In a nutshell they are not as reliable as other makes and the build quality is definately inferior compared to similar priced cars.
I can only think of 1 other make of car that I rate lower than Rover and that is Daewoo.
The Phoenix directors seem to be being upheld as knights in shining armour through all this when (if last years article in the Torygraph is to be believed) the truth is they’ve stripped cash out of the company as fast as they could.
They are now asking for £100million to bail the company out. This figure is much, much less than the combined annual salary for the board of directors (which IIRC was quoted at £140million). Lets see them putting their hands in their pockets shall we. Whilst we on about money, perhaps they could donate the £13million that was recently transferred into the directors pension fund.
I’m not in the market for an argument but why should the government throw money they haven’t got (there is a fiscal deficit of £35billion annually thanks to the chancellor banking on economic growth that didn’t appear) at a company that has been mis managed.
I’m saddened and very angry to see yet another great British company go down the tubes as a result of mis-management and greed.
Coffeeholic:
I blame Poland.Well they seem to be getting blamed for everything else at the moment.
dont start everyone off on that subject again
The workers will only get 280 quid for each year of service as redundancy pay .
Not much is it? Wonder what the bosses will get though!!!
jessicas dad:
Coffeeholic:
I blame Poland.Well they seem to be getting blamed for everything else at the moment.
That’s not fair they are no worse than female drivers.
