SOCIALIST Action's award to industry goes this the British sycal owned Falkland Islands Company which owns 43 per cent of the islands and employs nearly half the population.
OK, many true patriots got upset when the Argentinians •occupied the island. But the company's enterprising DONSC Teanieu the first law of capitalism which is that profit comes first. Misfortune be turned. into hard cash.
When the Argentinians started digging LNI-CIC _COINU the company's 'liberators' sold the LHC Argentinians tons of WODE U ine their trenches and dug outs.
The company charo. ed the Argentinians £2 a kilo instead the market price of £1.40 a kilo, which their Was contribution the Mr Needham chairperson of Coalite should call at our office so we can give him the Socialist Action Award to Industry. undermining of Galtieri's economy.
Believing in the old adage WNe NOL W%ill not after the war reclaimed the bales and shipped them back to as damaged goods Now peoole are com. plaining about the comtrading with the Che!y. How stunid can they get? According to Margaret hatcher patriotic to make a profit anu tal bo cracuy WLal this subsidiary of the Nor, 1 am glad to say, does lne compan believe in featherbedding bUDIC Sel tor. The British army is charged £1.50 a head per night for billeting those "brave lads' who freed the islands to boost Coalite's profits.
of their three bedroomed Goose Green housed i6 houses soldiers a night. When someone complained this overcrowding the company explained most oe ov e ge the dark and don't like siceplng on lelr own.
That billet grossed Coalite £650 a HOELlI Normally the cottage is rented out for f60 a month. You can see the advantages of privatisation over the heavily subsidised puDlIC sector especially haye shares in the private one.
However Coalite is even donated of its £5 million assets to the South Atlantic Fund for service men their families. This acoll" ably is marked down as tax-deductable.
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