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The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.
We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.
I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
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.
There's no substitute for seeing firsthand a well being drilled.
Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.
It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.
The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.
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.
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.
Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.
Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.
The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.