"You Astra be joking" ask cheap motor insurers.
Insureyourmotor.co.uk, the cheap motor insurers who insure so much more than Astra's, cheaply, can't help but notice the exodus of car manufactures setting sail from our shores gathering momentum; as the latest of the global heavyweights, themselves who have sought for years to keep Ellesmere Port families in shell-suits, is pulling up their anchor on the banks of the river Mersey. Vauxhall, as cheap motor insurers - Insureyourmotor.co.uk - are keenly aware, are but a finger hole in the general motors pudding/portfolio, that has now announced that 900 of its supposedly productivity-shy workforce are to loose their Astra constructing livelihoods, because it would be cheaper for GM if they paid Lithuanians in treacle toffee to bolt together their 'car for the ordinary person' instead. In a stroke that cheap motor insurer - Insureyourmotor.co.uk - acknowledge will wipe out the current night shift in its entirety at the Cheshire-based plant, it will subsequently have a domino effect that ultimately will see a slump in overall production - and - more worrying still for those left with a precariously balanced Lacoste account, the prospect of the Antara SUV model due in two years time, not actually showing up at all.
Still, Insureyourmotor.co.uk, the cheap motor insurers, (Vauxhall or otherwise) report that on the plus side, the remaining workers got to see Deputy PM, Brown, or is that green? Gordon this week, and his apology for his Trade and Industry Minister getting caught up in his heels - Alistair Darling, in the sycophantically apologetic flesh; dismissing the highly-skilled (but no longer wanted) workers anxiousness brought about by the loss, by hinting at their imminent securing of other work in the locality will be a doddle - with those oh-so-pointless words trotted out at times like these by those of corporate suit; "Of course, the government will pledge £2.75 to retraining ex-employees". Indeed. For any number of employment opportunities which don't actually exist; as any constituent for this part of the Wirral will testify, being handed an orange bib at B+Q is scant consolation for losing a challenging, fiscally rewarding job tinkering with Vauxhalls alongside the M53.
This vote that will give soon-to-be shelf-stackers no confidence whatsoever as they alter the writing on their summer holiday destination luggage tags from Torremolinos to Talacre, and itself comes only days after the following, equally well-chosen words are still ringing in their ears. Courtesy of Carl-Peter Forster, General Motors Europe boss, and therefore making him their boss. (seeing as they're parent company to the grubby faced automotive urchin who hasn't been handing his homework in on time, namely the Ellesmere Port plant) Ones which went along the thoughtful lines of the UK being more able to absorb job cuts than other European countries. And why is that exactly? Because these other European countries as far as I'm aware haven't got any employees, (present or ex) seeing as they're all taking the 'extensively trained for jobs' of our guys (plastic scouse or otherwise) over here.
Insureyourmotor.co.uk, the cheap motor insurer, employs extensively trained staff at their HQ too. And being this well trained in cheap motor insurance issues means they can pass on incredible savings to people like you. Which won't come as much relief for sports shops facing closure in Ellesmere Port , but will for Astra-insuring folk country-wide.
Date - 21/09/2006
