Buccaneering Buoyancy

Plucky little P&O Ferries entrepreneur Peter Hebblethwaite, who summarily sacked hundreds of workers from the master race and replaced them with cheap foreigns, received a pay rise of at least fifty-five per cent that same year despite his obvious contempt for the little people. Hebblethwaite informed a parliamentary huff-and-puff that he accepted the bonus after due reflection despite having committed the Truss-and-Trumpster error of doing the quiet part out loud and despite having suffered a similar dearth of adverse personal consequences. He also, despite being asked whether he was robbing his staff blind, bragged that some of his workers were so sustainable as to be paid less than the legal minimum wage: a claim which the company had denied. At present P&O's accounts are coming in nine months late, after a major accountancy firm resigned the job of auditing them despite the self-evident probity on show.