Originally Posted by
ninianclark
She/He (aka Gammon Flaps) got a bit upset in a previous thread (so they started a new one to get more attention again)
The basics behind it were Gammon Flaps said The Govt will end up paying for the Carillion collapse, then they said the Govt should help all the SMEs affected by Carillion going bust etc etc - basically you cant have it both ways. That was the gist of it I think.
The Govt pension protection scheme will be in place (should the pensions go t1ts up), The Govt via the administrators have paid out redundancy where applicable. Govt contracts were distributed to other firms also working on the HS2 project etc that has helped the continuity of the projects.
The people that really lost out are the sub contractors that Carillion owed money to - the Govt didnt bail them out.
Carillion is (or rather was) a PLC it wasnt a Govt Dept. Having to spend this money to ensure HS2 isnt delayed etc - obviously works out better for the project than not paying to get the HS2 contracts back on track.
As for my mate who worked at Carillion, he got the money he was owed, and everyone on his old team now either works for the main companies on the HS2 project or some of them have gone to work other infrastructure companies. A few of them went full time - most of them have gone as contractors / consultants.
So Gammon Flaps - fear not , breath gently, let your heart rate come back to normal. It's not jeremy's fault, your gracious Leader is still alive.
ps for the record the Carillion modus operandi was that of an out of control c unt - and there were lots of them. I suspect though that seeing as they were audited by KPMG (another bunch of c unts) they will have operated just on the edge of company law.