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Originally Posted by Livia
I've rarely seen so much excitement and air-punching over so many people losing their jobs, then flooding the job market and consequently bringing down the price of those skills. But if it reinforces someone's political agenda, I suppose you could even spin this to make it look like a little victory.
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Who is excited about the workers losing their jobs? This isn't about the Carillion suppliers that could be driven under if they aren't paid or the workers who were told to go home or the shareholders who were given remarkably little information. This is about hedge funds who were convinced the company was in trouble.... 18 hedge funds that made £80m from the initial share slump. Its about Marshall Wace and BlackRock, the US-based investment institution that hired former chancellor George Osborne as an adviser last year, on a £650,000 salary. Its about wealth shuffling and the lies that were dished out in July of last year. Its about Carillion still being able to buy public sector contracts when clearly it was about to hit the wall. This is about corporate governance regulations being so lax and how senior executives will walk away from this unscathed.
I love the way you have just tried to turn this round to suggest our concerns about what has just happened are somehow mocking the poor souls who are going to walk away from this jobless, moneyless and possibly homeless.
You added zilch to the topic other than mock those of us talking about it.