Poor due diligence at best, at worst.....very scary

[Lofthouse Lower]

Shady corporate deals at BWFC

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Answers please, Phil

[Worthy4England]

Oh do feck off. We can strategically place a few around our 18 Yard Box, when we play the DMB's.

Top move by Garty.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Leaves a bad taste but that's business. I doubt Real Madrid ended the shirt sponsorship deal with Siemens 'cos somebody pointed out they made the gas chambers at Belsen. I'd be surprised and delighted if BWFC (and for that matter Richard McCormick) only put their money in banks, pension schemes and financial schemes which specifically avoid unethical investment. They're quite hard to come by. See Mark Thomas passim for how deeply involved these distasteful industries are in the fiscal mainstream. This country's glorious leader has been storming round the world drumming up arms sales, and lest that be deemed partisan, the other lot were just as keen.

There are few easy options.

[Lord Kangana]

Just a smokescreen to cover the real scandal at the 'Bok if you ask me.

[Prufrock]

Leaves a bad taste but that's business. I doubt Real Madrid ended the shirt sponsorship deal with Siemens 'cos somebody pointed out they made the gas chambers at Belsen. I'd be surprised and delighted if BWFC (and for that matter Richard McCormick) only put their money in banks, pension schemes and financial schemes which specifically avoid unethical investment. They're quite hard to come by. See Mark Thomas passim for how deeply involved these distasteful industries are in the fiscal mainstream. This country's glorious leader has been storming round the world drumming up arms sales, and lest that be deemed partisan, the other lot were just as keen.

There are few easy options.

In fairness I think Real Madrid would end it if Siemens were still making gas chambers, which that article seems to imply this lot are doing with land mines.

Very uncool IMO.

[Lord Kangana]

I thought that was AEG and IG Farben anyhoo?

[Verbal]

Leaves a bad taste but that's business. I doubt Real Madrid ended the shirt sponsorship deal with Siemens 'cos somebody pointed out they made the gas chambers at Belsen.

Yes but isn't the landmine division currently active? Don't think Belsen has been particularly busy for 60 years or so..

I'd be surprised and delighted if BWFC (and for that matter Richard McCormick) only put their money in banks, pension schemes and financial schemes which specifically avoid unethical investment. They're quite hard to come by. See Mark Thomas passim for how deeply involved these distasteful industries are in the fiscal mainstream. This country's glorious leader has been storming round the world drumming up arms sales, and lest that be deemed partisan, the other lot were just as keen.

There are few easy options.

Yes it is difficult, but surely it doesn't do much good for the corporate image of BWFC. I mean it was only last year that the BWFC community trust was doing charity cycle rides for injured war veterans...

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I take it you bank with the Co-Op. Good for you. Excellent phone banking too.

[Prufrock]

Probably not, but then we don't have a team of people whose entire job is to make sure the things we do look good in a media spotlight. I think I can morally square keeping my few pennies in a bank which may or may not do terrible, unethical things, whilst I spend most of my time earning said pennies, and the rest sleeping/killing myself slowly with legal drugs. I'm not sure a multi-million pound business with people employed specifically for PR, with researchers involved, in a relatively large financial deal either not doing their homework, or worse, letting it slide is a similar cirlce. Landmines are some nasty shit yo.

PS have a good holidaiz.

[Bruce Rioja]

Internet bookies on the shirt? landmine manufacturers on the hoardings? Bovril the temperature of boiling oil? Whatever next?

[TANGODANCER]

I doubt the munitions department of this company have anything to do with this deal. They're just one of a massive amount of worldwide companies making armaments. If the market's there, the products will sustain it. If there were no wars nobody would make weapons. Unfortunately, there are. Money has never had any moral boundaries. These figures seem to be five years old:

It is estimated that yearly, over 1.5 trillion dollars are spent on military expenditures worldwide (2.7% of World GDP).[1] Part of this goes to the procurement of military hardware and services from the military industry. The combined arms sales of the top 100 largest arms producing companies amounted to an estimated $315 billion in 2006.[2] In 2004 over $30 billion were spent in the international arms trade (a figure that excludes domestic sales of arms)

[Lord Kangana]

Internet bookies on the shirt? landmine manufacturers on the hoardings? Bovril the temperature of boiling oil? Whatever next?

Is the Bovril one purely hypothetical?

[Verbal]

Internet bookies on the shirt? landmine manufacturers on the hoardings? Bovril the temperature of boiling oil? Whatever next?

Zat Knight signing a new contract.

[jimbo_bwfc]

Wait till The Nipple Shop milks it and claims we're affecting their corporate image.

[Worthy4England]

Just a smokescreen to cover the real scandal at the 'Bok if you ask me.

Doesn't Eddie D make pop-up toasters? We all know the problems they could cause if sold to hotel chains...Bobo might get his brekkers on time.

[Lord Kangana]

Hotels are expensive things to replace you know.

[Hoboh]

Hopewe are getting a good deal off them, whats a few mines? some people were more than happy when Gaddafi was going to buy us for his son!!! look where that would have left us now.............
Anyway a lot of multinationals have dodgy skeletons if you look long or far enough back. Take the money!!

[jaffka]

quite useful landmines in some scenarios

[ohjimmyjimmy]

How outraged you are will depend on how badly you want that star striker on the extra 10 grand a week, i suppose.

[midnitefooty]

I think you'll find a lot of companies have a "dark side" to them. Once you start trying to pick and choose, you're not going to end up with much.

Is child labour an issue for you? A lot of chocolate companies take no responsibility for child labour. Thankfully, companies like Nike and Adidas seem to be fairly responsible. Don't know about Reebok though