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[despaer]

I see that the attempt to pin blame on other people has begun in respect of the people that ran Rover for its last few years, most notably the attempt by Baron Mandelson (go on then, name me a good Baron by the way) to bar them from running another company. Bear in mind that these people were, by many accounts, a collection of moderately talented

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[simoneck]

A lovely piece of short term labour thinking coming back to bite them.
This is just classic Mandleson spin....doing something meaningless as a distraction from their own failings.
They didn't want any job losses in 2000, so they pushed Rover into Phoenix's hands, rather than Alchemy who had a much more sensible plan.
Of course it's always easy with hindsight to say that a different option would have been better, but did anyone, at any stage, really think that Rover could remain as a volume car manufacturer? BMW couldn't see a way to make it work, how was it feasible for it to go it alone?

[andygates]

Munchausen. He was great.

[despaer]

As in 'Munchausen syndrome'?

[andygates]

Yes! The Baron told stories. And was fictional. And ace.

[despaer]

Touche, then, I feel.

I had more of a Harkonnen thing in my mind when I wrote the original piece.