
If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

Shale is one answer to the U.K.'s energy problem, and it has obviously worked extraordinarily well in America.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

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.

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.

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.

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.