End Of Another British Institution

[lancsdave]

HP Sauce gone

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6455565.stm

[AccyMad]

So thats why it was on offer at Asda yesterday - if I'd have know people were losing jobs over it I would have bought Daddies

[shakermaker]

Nnnnnoooooooooooo

[grannyclaret]

yep.. another institution gone to be produced cheaper on the continent,,,,

[accymel]

Ridiculous to think that Mr Blair wants people in work & yet let a big employer up sticks abroad leaving many workers unemployed!

[shakermaker]

Maybe I read your post wrongly accymel but how is this Blair's fault?

[accymel]

Originally Posted by shakermaker

Maybe I read your post wrongly accymel but how is this Blair's fault?

Has he tried to save this company or encourage it to keep it going - a big firm upping sticks - you have to ask yourself why? & the gov will have something to do with it

[shakermaker]

The firm will more than likely have influential shareholders on the continent which has encouraged the move.
I doubt there's anything the government could've done.

[panther]

Oh NOOOOOO
my daughter loves her hp sauce she'll go mental if she dont get her sauce on her chips!!
whys it going to the bloody netherlands??
and what about our bacon butty's!!!???

[panther]

............keep a bottle could Be worth summat you know

[Neil]

Originally Posted by shakermaker

Maybe I read your post wrongly accymel but how is this Blair's fault?

You try and close a plant in France.
It is too easy to make people redundant in this country. We need the law changing to make it harder and more expensive to close down UK businesses.

[jambutty]

It may not be Blair’s fault directly shakermaker but he is the head of a government that is taxing us all out of existence. Thus you can hardly blame a manufacturer going to where he is allowed to keep more of the profits.

On a slight tangent – has anyone noticed that the new upside down bottles of sauce, ketchup and salad cream contain a liquid that isn’t quite as viscous as the right way up bottles, presumably to aid the stuff to come out.

I’ve been standing my sauce bottles upside down for donkey’s years once they became about only one quarter full and I never had any problems squeezing it out.

So once again we are getting short changed.

[SPUGGIE J]

What do the Dutch know about making the best sausage butty sauce around? How can it be cheaper to produce it on the continent is what I want to know?

[cashman]

It may not be Blair’s fault directly shakermaker but he is the head of a government that is taxing us all out of existence. Thus you can hardly blame a manufacturer going to where he is allowed to keep more of the profits.--- thats it in a nutshell shaker, any employer will sod off to where he can make more profit,if hes able, its called business, crap i know but thats the way of it.

[shakermaker]

Thanks for clearing that up Neil & Jambutty.
It is always sad to read when people lose their jobs & redundancies from large firms are becoming all too common these days.