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Originally Posted by GEaston
The price has gone up because the business can now be actually run as a business and not just as a loss making community service. I am pleased the nations debt is not going to rise, and the fact that billions can be recovered in the process is a win win.
Royal Mail now stands a chance as a business, time will tell if it makes something of the opportunity it now has. My hope is the government sells it's remaining 30% stake.
The concept of loss of Britishness is such nonsense. There are loads if examples of successful British businesses, like Intercontinental Hotels or Diagio.
Most people in the world think Guiness is an Irish drink, but it isn't, it's British owned. People also think Smirnoff is Russian, but it too is British. Have Ireland and Russia lost their identity? No, not at all, they were just acquired by the largest spirits manufacturer in the world (Diageo), which happens to be British !
4 of the top 15 drinks brands in the world are British (Johnny Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Crown Royal). So raise a British glass to the Royal Mail freed from the shackles of the state. Good luck to them.
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that's because your nuts
to run a business like so called ukplc you need infrastructure they have wrecked every bit of infrastructure that made Britain great every other country copied the British blueprint and think we are nuts getting rid of it. the tories say they are for business when they are the opposite. 1. they give huge tax dodging hedge fund firms backing when they should be giving support to the small medium business encouraging starting up business instead of giving the multinationals an unfair advantage by giving them taxpayer money in grants tax breaks etc. you need to create conditions for a successful economy for everybody not just the bankers and their hedge funds. you are talking about diageo when you have no clue about them they make me angry. johnny walker was from Kilmarnock made and bottled in Kilmarnock now it is an unemployment blackspot a community destroyed as there is not any presence of Johhny walker left in Kilmarnock ehh Diageo shareholders who are the major shareholders?
they are another company who get subsidised from taxpayers .they got nearly 1 billion dollars from the good old us of and uk taxpayers