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Breaking of the Rover MG Story by UK Government

  • 26-04-2005 8:58pm
    #1
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭


    Did it strike anyone else that the UK Government announced they would not support the company any further on the eve of the Popes funeral?
    Perfect timing or what?
    The next days media was covered with the funeral and had to battle to make space for the hugely damaging story to the Blair Government.
    Ok - they took a bit of a hammering in the following week... but the Popes funeral and process for a new Pope seemed to have the media and public looking elsewhere.
    With a week or so before the election, it looks like the Rover story is now dead and buried in the national press.
    Anyone else think this was a fantastic move by the Labour campaign?

    It's akin to the burying of bad news the government was accused after 9/11 that cost Jo Moore and Stephen Byers his job (more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2013061.stm)


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  • #2
    lomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭lomb


    it doesnt bother me tbh. rover was a dead duck run into the ground by 'venture capitalists' it never really had a future. GM in the US wants to lose 3 brands permanently and worldwide many companies that expanded by buying other brands have come to regret it. ie daimler/chrysler, bmw/rover.

    the only future rover ever had was building niche sports cars under the MG brand


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