[MM-MALTS-L] Save Johnnie Walker Whisky/advert

[Paul Dejong]

Well everybody is entitled to their opinion i guess...nevetheless... However
true yours may be...it is very cinical and in my view inappropriate.
I'm going to be equally cinical:
To me your remarks sound alike to this: If somebody had said a couple of
years ago with the Tsunami disaster..."those people should have seen it
coming and not go live on the coast line (after all, it was not the first,
and will not be the last tsunami there)" ...
maybe true, but cinically uncalled for and nothing to do with solving the
problem, or with those people needing help or not.
Why did you -in your infinite wisdom- not tell the people in Kilmarnock this
years ago, Horst, they might have benefited from your wisdom and not ended
up in this situation!
It's very easy to give a solution in hindsight...

Sorry, had to get this of my chest.  :-(

On 13-08-2009 14:45, "Horst Luening" <luening at dr-luening.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have some strange thoughts about this Kilmarnock thing. And - please
> note - that I am *not* living in Scotland or in the UK.
> 
> Uk administration did not help the industry. In contrast, they are throwing
> 'sticks at their legs' as we are saying here in Germany. They forced the
> industry to place expensive duty stamps on the bottles. Even knowing, that
> this will not help tax fraud. Italy can tell something about this. But this
> were additional costs for the industry.
> 
> Next thing was the rise of the alc. tax. Then all whisky plants, without a
> single fire in the last decades, were classified as chemical plants and
> needed a lot of additional safty equipment. Not to mention all the fine dust
> impact on the energy bill. All this resulted in additional costs.
> 
> And what happened? Finally people stopped drinking. And they began their
> reduction with the relatively high priced well branded whisky names. Johnnie
> Walker is one of them. Whyte & Mackay also announced a cut of 15% in
> workforce.
> 
> The only chance for Diageo to get the boat floating again is selling more
> abroad. And you have to divide money with the receiving nations. Otherwise
> the will not buy. Why should we work hard abroad and pay for bottling costs
> which could increase our own nation balance sheet? Is this fair? We risk our
> livers and the money should go in total to other people?
> 
> Sorry. I am not able to understand this. The real mess is, that neither the
> town of Kilmarnock has looked for diversification in the past nor did the
> governments in Edingburgh and London have. If you start messing around with
> laws you have to look further if you are able to afford the consequences.
> And nobody can say, that Diageo and the others have not opposed all
> government actions one after each other. Now the bath tub is empty. Sorry,
> everybody in Great britain should have known better.
> 
> Kind regards from abroad.
> 
> Horst
> 
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