If there is any comment that I would add, it’s the isolation when you’re made redundant…Yes when you sign on it’s a major culture shock, yes you have the support of your immediate family, both my husband and I lost our employment within a month of each other, then to make matters worse we ‘lost’ our family and friends (and the people we called friends) – we became social lepers, you know people avoid contact with you because they don’t know what to say. Their main topic of conversation is ‘how busy they are at work’ to anything they are currently spending money on?! You suddenly find yourself in this wilderness with no work, no money and no conversation!
We are extremely lucky, we know that now; we have started working for ourselves, we know it will be a long haul getting out of the financial mire. But we are positive and so relaxed now – less stressed, it’s fantastic.

Since Rover,s collapse five years ago i still feel quite a lot of anger about the way everything was handled. I felt at the time we were made so many promises from so many people that Rover would never close,the government wouldn’t let it close , its British,the TGWU saying a deal was being done as we speak to save Longbridge, even Carl Chinn saying we were not going to let Longbridge close and we would keep fighting, we will be back…….but at the end of the day it all came to nothing.We also heard about a certain fund which was set up for Rover workers which has never materialised…….. and it goes on. I really miss all the former employees of Rover, i wonder if they still feel let down by people who talk a good game but fail to show it,hmm sounds familiar.