Things we’re not likely to see: Tories cancelling P&O owners Free Ports contract
Moored: P&O ferries – and contracts offered to the firm’s operator, DP World – should be mothballed until reparations are made to the 800 workers they have wronged.
Remember This Site’s article on March 19, where I stated that any UK business in a position to do so should find a way to penalise P&O ferries’ owner DP World for the sacking without notice of 800 UK-based employees?
I should have included the government, of course – and isn’t it providential that the UK’s Tory government has awarded DP World two contracts to run Free Ports. On that subject, This Writer agrees with David Osland, below:
Unless the government terminates DP World's two lucrative contracts to run free ports, it is effectively condoning the 800 mass sackings at P&O Ferries. Don't hold your breath.
— David__Osland (@David__Osland) March 19, 2022
Any organisation that treats the people of the UK with contempt should not receive financial rewards of any kind from the UK government. That should be among the most basic conditions of forming a government.
Tory-voting ex-employees of P&O may have been surprised to see their struggle being spearheaded, not by Boris Johnson, but by Jeremy Corbyn:
Jeremy Corbyn providing national leadership on the P&O Ferries Scandal. pic.twitter.com/4BUMndL1lo
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) March 18, 2022
His argument is a good one. So next week we should see the UK’s Tory government cancelling these two contracts – right?
Well, maybe not. This government runs on greed, and we don’t know what, if anything, was offered to ministers in return for these “lucrative” deals.
So: don’t hold your breath waiting.
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