Corporate Britain in the firing line as US private equity lines up bids

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  1. Private equity firms buy functional businesses, cut every cost they can (even to the detriment of the service/product), ride it until all the customers leave and then strip the assets and sell them. They have no interest in building functional businesses and are a massive detriment to any market they enter.

  2. The real “benefit” of Brexit that we aren’t supposed to think about – the pivot to UK as US client state, owned and operated – is underway, I guess.

    > [Boris Johnson, 2018] warned against being locked into the EU’s structures: ‘That’s not what the Americans want to see, what they want to see, like all our friends, is …’ [a deregulated crippled economy ripe for exploitation by rapacious US corps]

    — https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5701033/Boris-Johnson-savages-Downing-Streets-post-Brexit-trade-plans.html

    Britons aren’t the beneficiaries, of course, unless they’re amongst the very few positioned to line their pockets at the expense of the rest of the country in this situation.

  3. You know a country is doing well when all it’s companies get bought up by foreign private equity firms. Roll up, roll up.

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