Cadbury takeover

[Seadragon]

I am so gutted that Kraft are taking over Cadbury. My parents live 15 mins away from the Birmingham site, I take the kids every year to its factory. It is a much loved British Institution. The chocolate is the best in the World and Quakers founded it and had a philantropic philosophy in regard to its workers. Kraft closed down Terry's site when they took it over. This is a really sad day.

[Androcles]

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the financial deal or of nationality of ownership, you can guarantee one thing - Kraft is a mediocre company producing mediocre products and like Cadbury's products or not, they will soon be even more cr*p, with Krafts record of debasing everything they touch (Sorry - cost engineering)

[youngmafbog]

AOG, much as it pains me to say it the French have a number of things right. Like freedom and being proud of your country.
Labour have squashed it all out of us with two control freaks Blair and in particular Brown.

[youngmafbog]

Sorry McBottle from Noo Labour

[David Black]

Renault is actually pretty bankrupt.

Frankly Margret Thatcher did the right thing by the British car industry she opened it up to real competition and in the last few years we did not lose money on the car industry that was all done by foreigners?

[Gromit]

Can anyone remind me who it was let our water, electricity and gas companies be owned by German and French countries?

[Seadragon]

Thanks for your input everyone. I am not feeling any better. I just think that Britain is going downhill by selling off major businesses as Oldgit implies. And as Young says Labour messed up with the Competition Act, their hands are tied. Kraft has problems and it will be the British workers who will suffer in the end, Kraft will not give a toss about British employees when they need to make cuts (look at Terry's) and the back lash of that will be seen on the economy. With so many assests going abroad in 20-30 years time this economy is really going to struggle.

[David Black]

Frankly Britain has always made money by moving on and selling history to others.

The darkest period of our industrial decline was set in motion by the Labour party trying to freeze or industrial landscape and provide "Job security" to its supoprters.

That job security only lasted a few years but has caused dislocation and misery for millions of employees whose future was locked in avision of a different era.

Britain can grow nicely if we accept that things change and secondly if we decide to focus on smart people rather than state planning.