76 jobs to go at Cobham (From Bournemouth Echo)

"Cobham Granted HeliSAS™ CAAC Certification in China, allowing installation of HeliSAS on hundreds of Bell 407 helicopters in that country."

Capitalist mondialisation at it's finest.

Profit taking precedent over jobs, Thatchers legacy persists

l'anglais wrote:
"Cobham Granted HeliSAS™ CAAC Certification in China, allowing installation of HeliSAS on hundreds of Bell 407 helicopters in that country."

Capitalist mondialisation at it's finest.

Profit taking precedent over jobs, Thatchers legacy persists

Then why didn't New Labour under the leaderships of Tony Bliar and Gordon (sell all the gold cheap) Broon simply reverse the trend. Please don't keep blaming Margaret Thatcher as she quit as PM in 1990.
Blame whoever came after and how much they cost the country in pointless wars and countless deaths.
Of course ifyou REALLY want to do something then stand for parliament in the next election and win your seat.

Cobham made a hash of the Nimrod upgrade in the 1990's, that was later taken over by BAe, which led to the delay of the new version coming into service and ultimately the scrapping of the entire fleet. They also only modified one Airbus tanker aircraft for the RAF before the process was taken in-house by Airbus. They over stretched themselves and this is the result.

billd766 wrote:

l'anglais wrote:
"Cobham Granted HeliSAS™ CAAC Certification in China, allowing installation of HeliSAS on hundreds of Bell 407 helicopters in that country."

Capitalist mondialisation at it's finest.

Profit taking precedent over jobs, Thatchers legacy persists

Then why didn't New Labour under the leaderships of Tony Bliar and Gordon (sell all the gold cheap) Broon simply reverse the trend. Please don't keep blaming Margaret Thatcher as she quit as PM in 1990.
Blame whoever came after and how much they cost the country in pointless wars and countless deaths.
Of course ifyou REALLY want to do something then stand for parliament in the next election and win your seat.

1. The Milk Snatcher didn't quit, she was booted out by her beloved tories.

2. Pointless and expensive wars? Which one's, those in 1914 and 1939 that ensured that Britain lost any say in the World. Then had to wait to be bailed by Uncle Sam, then repay lend lease for the next 1/2 century.

3. We all have views on subjects. Unfortunately, Britain is not a Democratic country (MP's elected with less than 50% of the popular vote is not a democracy). Abolish the veto at the House of Lords & I'll think about it.

You have stated here, hard facts, of which I totally agree, all we have to do is to find the third one to share our thoughts. ps. I do not think that either of us actually lives in the uk, or am I wrong here?.

downmoor-ch63 wrote:
You have stated here, hard facts, of which I totally agree, all we have to do is to find the third one to share our thoughts. ps. I do not think that either of us actually lives in the uk, or am I wrong here?.

You're right, sometimes you need to step back a pace to see the light.

downmoor-ch63 wrote:
You have stated here, hard facts, of which I totally agree, all we have to do is to find the third one to share our thoughts. ps. I do not think that either of us actually lives in the uk, or am I wrong here?.

I don't live in the UK either. I left Poole in 1960 to join the RAF and quit the UK in disgust in1999 and moved to Thailand as a base while I was working worldwide from 1991 to 2009.
Sometimes it is easier to be on the outside looking in rather than in the forest and seeing only trees everywhere.