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[gettingrichslow] 05/5/2018 09:20

It doesn't matter who is having the party. B+ likes the finer things in life as we know. So does Minerve (eg $1.4m second home in Florida). The difference is only one of them displays extreme hypocrisy to go with it!! Minerve must have been on the absinthe yesterday, it's the only plausible explanation for his rants...

[brexitplus] 05/5/2018 08:39

We, the whole family, are having a party. And a big one too. Lots of champers.

But I agree about minerve- he is rather hypocritical and never said if he had a chauffeur or not.

What a wonderful day.

[meanwhile] 05/5/2018 08:27

Is Minerve having a party, or is it brexit+ Partridge?

[mattboxy] 05/5/2018 07:55

Meanwhile Not confused at allIf Minerve is genuinely trying to say that Melrose bosses are directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of children throughout this country because they earn inflated bonuses he is insane!! How can he then boast about celebrating the weekend with a fat cat like party. How is it ok for him and his fellow directors to take inflated salaries? It's the same argument. It simply makes me doubt he is of any business standing at all!

[brexitplus] 05/5/2018 07:36

Meanwhile

Please send Mrs Meanwhile my regards, if she actually exists.

[gettingrichslow] 05/5/2018 00:19

Meanwhile, you are turning into a Minerve-lite!! Can we have one of your hilarious 'calculations' soon please?

[meanwhile] 05/5/2018 00:10

Mattboxy, have you got people confused?
Your post makes no sense. You have all the stock phrases, 'moral compass', 'fat cats', 'your logic has no logic' but they are in the wrong order.
Get your mind together, lad, and then have another go at it.

[gettingrichslow] 04/5/2018 23:55

You've hit the nail on the head Mattboxy!
And his lapdog (Meanwhile) accuses people of 'compulsive bragging' while simultaneously banging on about the size of his wallet and the size of his Melrose holding! But he can't see the hypocrisy in that... embarrasing really.

[mattboxy] 04/5/2018 23:45

So it's ok for you to eat lots and drink and party while there are starving in the world!! You have a very strange moral compass Minerve. It would appear that you are a fat cat trying to salvage your conscience. Melrose fat cats make money if they create value which if they do pays tax which funds the NHS. When GKN made low profits less tax. Your logic has no logic your morals are the same as those of the people you seek to criticise. Your are a strange one possibly not thinking straight. You worry me

[meanwhile] 04/5/2018 23:04

Minerve, I would give up trying to educate this brexit+ fellow if I were you. He's beyond help and you're wasting your efforts.

I've not seen his posts for several weeks now but my wife still follows him, and one other on this board, as case studies for her occupation. So I hear occasional summaries of his pronouncements.
I couldn't at first see my wife's comparison of him with Alan Partridge but I have now been persuaded that he has a similar character. The compulsive bragging and name dropping. The need to be seen as an all-rounder, successful, happy and content. A view of life based on over simplified principles. (His view of rural Britain from watching Countryfile). The need to always have the last word. The use of meaningless stock phrases like 'no brainer', 'skin in the game' to make some conclusive point.

I'd like to know if he wears a blazer, a cravat, and a wig.

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 22:08

Minerve

I fully intend to. Big family event, lots of people all intent on enjoying themselves. Youngest 18, oldest 90. We always have lots of fun. Lots to eat. Lots to drink. Lots of games.

Hope you can enjoy your weekend.

[minerve] 04/5/2018 21:49

Don't worry about bad things in life brexit. Your actions are not linked. You have no responsibility. Enjoy your weekend.

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 21:42

Yes, every day is wonderful. Obviously every day in your life is miserable.

[minerve] 04/5/2018 21:40

Ikea man. "The wonderful everyday"

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 21:37

Obviously too much. Time for the men in white coats.

[minerve] 04/5/2018 21:35

You either get it
Or you don't
You either stand or you fall
When your will is broken
When it slips from your hand
Then there's no time for joking
There's a hole in the plan

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 21:31

Minerve, how much have you had to drink?

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 21:14

My best mate from primary school in Kent is a Gillingham season ticket holder. Over 40 years now. He’ll be at the match and will report back to me. Gills have no chance of promotion so good luck Argyle. Did I say my nephew did his medical training in Exeter and Plymouth?

[yertiz] 04/5/2018 21:08

Gillingham - do or die game. We need to win by 3 or 4, and Rochdale need to beat Charlton by the same amount.......tense stuff!

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 21:05

Hi Yertiz, who are Plymouth playing this weekend?

[minerve] 04/5/2018 21:03

brexitplus

Where is the wealth creation? Where? Where? Where?

I am sure they do support charities! LOL

Extract £47M and pop a few £M to some charities here and there.

They are nice people aren't they!

Tell you what 'rainbow man', you give me £1K and I give you back £20!

Will it make you feel better?

Oh, we saved a few kids from cancer, the rest can die, I NEED that Sunseeker!

[yertiz] 04/5/2018 20:57

Royal Worcester Hospital, like every other hospital throughout the world, are not infallable and every so often cases like this, as tragic as they are, happen. Take the case of a neighbour of mine, an elderly lady, very independant but suffering the effects of Type 2 diabetes, some deafness and very recently, headaches. You may have heard the term 'blinding headache' - this is, in fact, a real situation (Temporal Arteritis) easily diagnosed by a simple blood test and easily and quickly treated with steroids. Timing is paramount but the hospital, her GP, the Pharmacist and Health Care professionals caring for her missed it. Result? She is now totally blind, lost her independance and has no way forward all though no one individual's fault. Blame has to be laid at the feet of everyone who had some degree of involvement. (The NHS does operate in a 'No Blame' culture, btw - lessons are always learned through transparency and mindfulness - still far too many managers unable to see the big picture, to my mind).

The lad in Worcester was suffering from Addison's disease, always difficult to diagnose as so many of the symptoms mimic other situations. Awful time for the family, but you can bet your bottom dollar the hospital didn't go out of their way to not diagnose the condition. Again a simple blood test (serum Cortisol) would have helped, but is never diagnostic on its own.

Back to the argument about Fat Cats (Melrose Directors are not the only ones out there!) and morality. My question to all on here is, if you were offered the millions for heading up a leading management operation based on the results you'd achieved, would you turn it down? Me - of course not, but I could still do an awful lot with that money through philanthropic means and I'm pretty sure the majority think that way also. My problem is I don't have millions, but I do contribute my share to the good of the world through the work and training I deliver, the charities I support and the taxes I pay.

Now, if I were a banker, city trader or a Premiership footballer, that's a completely different story. They have too much money and no moral compass - you can probably add politician to the list too.

Have a nice weekend all.

[brexitplus] 04/5/2018 20:54

I think the Melrose Directors also created a company, in fact two, and made the companies they purchased into better companies. You have no idea whether they support charities, and their performance fee which is £41 million, not £47 million, is absolutely nothing to do with the nhs other than the huge amount of tax they pay.

There is no correlation whatsoever.