Robert Maxwell = Not-Staff

I enjoyed dinner this Wednesday with my right-hand-man Gaul Wood and Harry ‘Giraffe’ Macadam, at Harry’s favourite restaurant (or ‘rezrawhn’ as Harry likes saying) Osteria Dell’Angolo. Blog, for your reference, the food qualified as being ‘quite good’.

It unfortunately emerged over dinner that Gaul Wood is yet another ill-informed member of the anti-Robert Maxwell band-wagon. What a shame.

Possibly Mr Wood, and all the other bah bahs that slag Maxwell off the whole time, should be referred to reading up on him and forming their own opinion on the man. Better that than relying on the twisted opinion of the jealous of anyone who earns more than £50k a year by doing anything for themselves Guardian newspaper.

Robert Maxwell CV of Not-Staffisms:

Escaped Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia whilst most of his family were killed in a concentration camp.

Made his way to England with nothing and served in the British Army.

Suffered the devastation of losing two children at young ages but went on to build many different businesses that employed tens of thousands of people.

In 1988 bought a business for £2.6billion. That must have been one of the biggest purchases ever at that time, mustn’t it? Not bad for someone who started with nothing. He certainly had bottle.

All the leftie bandwagon bullies might do well to remember that he actually owned the Daily Mirror when it was a newspaper for proper socialists, not modern snivelling middle-class under-achieving ones.

Okay, so the guy did his bollocks and knocked out most of the pension fund. To be fair – not good.

But…my point is this…he felt so bad about it he jumped off a boat and topped himself. He knew he’d done wrong. At least he built the business up himself. At least it wasn’t only other people’s money that he lost. He got well and truly carried out…into the Atlantic Ocean! NOT LIKE ALL THE HORRIBLE CORPORATE CITY PEOPLE who knocked out everyone else’s money, after taking NO RISK with their OWN money, and then IMMEDIATELY they got bailed out by YOU and ME and all the other tax-payers. Oh..and guess what..? They’re all STILL THERE, still ANONYMOUSLY milking us! They did their absolute kahunas, they were wage-slaves, only taking from the system, scratching each other’s backs.

Robert Maxwell was an easy target. He wasn’t, unlike the City wage-slaves, an anonymous target. He did his nuts and he knocked out some other people’s money. That was bad, but before then he employed many, many people. He paid a hell of a lot of tax and created many businesses. Overall, I think it’s fair to say he put more in than he took out of the ‘life pot’.

In other news:

I have written to my Trans-Atlantic Not-Staff pen-pal John Herou (father of the great Pam Statements), asking him how his impressive tummy is. John has spent decades building up and cultivating a truly superb American style paunch and well done to him. I am wondering though, if he may now consider photographing it for posterity and then eradicating it. We discussed several benefits to such a project at our Christmas party and I look forward to his progress reports. I have promised him, as a reward, should he lose two stone, dinner at Oslo Court, before the 2013 Star Christmas Party. Come on, John! USA!! Okay, go on then, if you lose three stone, we’ll let you shoot at some draft dodgers too!!

Hasta lluego, Ben x