GKN will be stripped and sold for parts by ghouls who have no interest in making things | Will Hutton
by Will Hutton from on (#3KMR9)
What can we expect from a takeover led by a protege of Lord Hanson, the man who laid waste to industrial Britain?
The past is never dead. When the wheeling, dealing, asset-stripping Hanson Trust finally collapsed in 2007, having played a major part in the deindustrialisation of Britain - but having greatly enriched its Thatcherite founder Lord Hanson - I thought a stake had finally being driven through the heart of a particular ghoul.
Never again would our Westminster, Whitehall and City establishments indulge a glorified super-accountant who knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. And, in the name of "culture change" and rigorous "management", had laid waste to industrial Britain. I was wrong.
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