how to avoid listening to news about rover

its very sad. the chinese wont buy rover and they have gone bust. who is to blame? the products were old, the managers did try to find a partner to make a new car and without billions to spend they couldnt do it alone. if you think that if each of the 6000 employees put up £1000 they would only pay the bills for 1 week, they would need to raise £200,000 EACH to fund a new model. so you cant be too hard on the p4 even if they have walked away with a lot of money. 5 years ago the unions went with their plans as the best of the rest was a 75% shut down, or 100% shut down then. i think they tried.
they made the old cars, and the new 75 last 5 years, but by now they needed a new model to replace the 25&45 and mgf. that didnt happen. and for good reason, there is over capacity and while car companies did deals with competitiors in product gaps eg ford/vw galaxy and ford / nissan maverick no one was going to want to help build a main stream product other than an indian or chinese company.
however rover was fighting a market that wasnt a level one. its competition got better state aid and better "friendly" homenation help from other companies such as suppliers and banks. that means whenever there is over capacity its more likely a uk company will go bust to a french, japanese or german one.
blair doesnt help our companies. look at the way metro-cammell workers lost out when the french protected alstom from going bust and being split up or sold. blair lets our jobs die when the competition gets govts bending over backwards to bend rules and keep them going.

ok so thats my view, what has it to do with the title! well getting bored with the non stop "rover" talk on the radio i retuned to the one station which didnt mention it. perhaps importantly that turned out to be CRI, chinas version of the bbc world service. "real time beijing" didnt mention it once. says it all.