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Jim Ratcliffe
British
Businessman
Born:
Oct 18
,
1952
America
Been
Energy
Work
World
You
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Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.
Jim Ratcliffe
Politics
People
Arrogance
Few
Like
Leave
Bullies
Friendly
Very
Few People
Decent
Decent People
Much
Organisation
Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.
Jim Ratcliffe
People
Management
Complicated
Law
Valuable
Pay
Unions
Difficult
Changes
Negotiate
Thousand
Pension
Cases
Talk
Annual
Employment
Advise
Role
Represent
Where
Grievance
Explain
Organisations
Large
Awards
Play
If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
Jim Ratcliffe
You
Live
About
Cash
Something
Head
Got
Sand
Your
You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.
Jim Ratcliffe
You
Wind
Energy
Bath
Only
Policy
Blows
Energy Policy
Means
While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
Jim Ratcliffe
Life
Family
Community
Unions
Early Years
Spent
Brought
Part
Most
Were
Years
Up
Did
Family Life
Being
While
Certainly
Working-Class
Play
Early
What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.
Jim Ratcliffe
Future
Long
See
Long-Term
Term
Want
It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.
Jim Ratcliffe
Work
Hard Work
Particularly
Always
Been
Place
Us
Hard
Manufacture
Profitable
I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.
Jim Ratcliffe
Country
Think
Marketplace
Would
Would-Be
Part
Perfectly
Like
Without
Bureaucracy
Expensive
Norway
Successful
European
Switzerland
Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.
Jim Ratcliffe
Has-Been
Been
Lot
Fun
Growing
Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.
Jim Ratcliffe
Problem
Energy
Extraordinarily
Obviously
Well
Answer
America
Worked
If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.
Jim Ratcliffe
Good
You
Energy
Market
Pensions
Cost
Cheap
Got
Go
Huge
Sensible
Skills
Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S.
Jim Ratcliffe
Great
You
Creative
World
Language
Plant
Energy
Those
Pensions
Pretty
Costs
High-Quality
Most
Got
Go
Western
Very
Western World
Germany
Expensive
Energy Costs
Infrastructure
Much
Skill
Skills
Levels
Below
Do your analysis of energy costs. Either it comes from windmills and solar or things like nuclear and shale gas. You have to think about how you provide competitive energy for U.K. Ltd.
Jim Ratcliffe
You
Solar
Energy
Think
Analysis
About
Costs
Like
How
Provide
Either
Energy Costs
Your
Nuclear
Things
Gas
Competitive
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