Anger as Mandelson threatens to sue HBOS merger challengers

23 December 2008

By Tom Gordon, Scottish Political Editor

SOURCES CLOSE to Alex Salmond last night accused Lord Mandelson of trying to “stack the deck” against those challenging the merger of HBOS with Lloyds TSB after they were threatened with huge legal bills unless they dropped their case.

THE BIG SELL OFF OF THE UN-UNITED KINGDOM

Well after todays secret SALE of our nuclear production plant to the US we don’t seem to have much left.

UK’s Atomic Production SOLD to an American company.

The government has sold its last remaining shares in the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment in Berkshire to an American company.

The move means Britain no longer has any stake in the production of its Trident nuclear warheads.

We Sell Off yet another vital UK Asset

Opposition MPs have criticised the sale, but the Ministry of Defence said Britain’s “sovereign interests” had been protected.

The fee paid by California-based Jacobs Engineering has not been disclosed.

The sale of British Nuclear Fuels’ stake means Jacobs has control of one third of Aldermaston’s operating company, AWE Management.

The other two thirds were already in private hands. They are split equally between American defence giant Lockheed Martin and the British plc Serco.

The Jaguar Land Rover dilemma

Jaguar Land Rover's Indian owner Tata bought the marques in March

Sorry but there not British any longer -

“Jaguar Land Rover is in trouble. Nothing new there. Ford sold the two British carmakers for reasons beyond its own dire finances.

But what is causing jaws to drop is how readily the Indian industrial giant Tata is going cap-in-hand to the UK government asking for financial assistance, less than nine months after acquiring the brands”.

Royal Mail stake to be sold to private foreign firm in £3bn deal

Extracts from BBC NEWS Friday, 18 February, 2005, 00:01 GMT

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Royal Mail loses postal monopoly

The Royal Mail’s 350-year monopoly is to end at the start of 2006, 15 months earlier than previously planned.

The UK’s postal service market will be fully liberalised from 1 January 2006, regulator Postcomm announced, following three months of consultation.

From that date, any licensed operator will be able to deliver mail to business and residential customers.
Royal Mail, which controls 99% of the market, welcomed the news but the main postal union said it was “ill-advised”.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) warned the decision will place “the country’s cherished universal service in jeopardy”.

The CWU also criticised what it said was a “competition at all costs” ethos which it says will put the Post Office at a serious competitive disadvantage to its European rivals.

Challenge over EU referendum given go-ahead by High Court

LISBON TREATY LITIGATION

UPDATE  25th June 2008  I am sorry to say that I lost and that Lord Justice Dyson did not appear to have taken on board that the government had, in effect, guaranteed to me that they would not ratify the treaty before the hearing, and had breached this undertaking.

Although I was the person who brought the action, it was, in effect, on behalf of all those of us – well over half the population – who wanted our say in a referendum.