‘Lord’ Mandelson of Bilderberg made an unwelcome return to the nation’s airwaves to defend the relatively indefensible position of French-owned Total Oil to outsource blue collar maintenance to Italian sub-contractors. Unsurprisingly, the former EU Trade Commissioner defended the right to free movement of labour inherent in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, but he also claimed that [...]
Tag Archives: Globalisation
Globalisation works – we can ship in cheap Italian labour for our French oil refineries
February 2, 2009 – 4:43 pm
This is not a detour on the road to Shangri-la. It's the path to perdition.
January 30, 2009 – 10:33 pm
Sally Buchanan made an important point about the inflation/deflation question in her comment below. We may require a re-alignment of our entire value system. The much-misued Utilitarian term ‘greatest good for the greatest possible number’ might depend on thinking about what we do and how we do it based upon what we, and the planet, [...]