Sold down the river
Is it just me or does anyone else think that the sale of Cadbury to Kraft is just another rung in Britain's descent into irrelevance.
Whatever weasel words come from the board this is nothing to do with securing futures, developing business or any other of the platitudes our management classes use to hide their real intentions.
This is about money and naked greed. Assurances of jobs and factories are about as long lasting as a bar of Dairy Milk on a hob.
If Cadbury and its traditions were all about profit then the Bournville Estate would never have been built. The sale to a US multi-national is just selling history, tradition and bit of what made us Britain to the highest bidder.
It might be a bigger fish but it has the same stink of the HP sauce deal about it while Kraft's record on labour relations puts it among the bottom four among multinationals according to the US based International Labor Rights Forum.
As a nation we once had a steel industry, shipbuilding, coal, fishing and a car industry. All gone. We don't even own much of our gas and electricity companies now and public transport is a private bun fight.
It is a sad day for Cadbury, Bournville, Birmingham and Britain.
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Roger Clarke - Birmingham’s very own Grumpy Old Man on what gets right up his nose.
Mr Brown is an un-elected, weak leader, who has let many big named British companies go to the wall.
To see Cadbury's takeover financed by a Bank which has had to be propped up by mainly English taxpayers, with money lent to a slop-producing bland American food company, is nothing short of outrageous.
Mr Brown, you and your shoddy, double crossing government should hang your heads in absolute shame (but you won't because you haven't got an ounce of shame in your entire body). You have sold us all well and truly down the river. The damage is irreversible and the people of Birmingham will never, ever forgive you.
I think you are being generous calling him a leader - bloke in No 10 maybe but leader? And once the old Prince of Darkness, Baron Mandelson of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham, who is also First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Council (Gilbert & Sullivan would have had a field day) chucks his oar in in you cannot believe a single word anyone says from now on.
I'm a Brummie living in Scotland and am writing to say how disgusted I am by the sale of Cadburys to Kraft - especially since RBS lent Kraft over 7bn pounds to facilitate this takeover. Kraft will eventually and inevitably run Bournville into the ground. Our Labour government will do nothing as they did for Rover. They are allowing RBS to lend this money to Kraft yet they are reluctant to lend money to British firms. Mandelson is behind this to make income for this rotten government. Remember when the election comes. Labour are not to be trusted!