ten questions for the johnston press

1. Who are you people?

2. What right had you to take over the newspaper where I worked?

3. What right had you to fire me?

4. Is the collapse in the trading position of the Leinster Leader and the Johnston Press since you fired me, (with a share price of £4 the night I was fired to a share price of pennies today) the fault of the people you fired or the fault of the people doing the firing?

5. How many people did you fire from the Leinster Leader?

6. How many people did you make redundant with minimum statutory redundancy payments from the Leinster Leader?

7. How many people chose to leave the Leinster Leader rather than work for you after you fired me?

8. What did you do with my 500 pension contributions paid over ten years?

9. Did you use any part of my pension to pay your retiring chief executive Tim Bowdler, the one who presided over the purchase of the Leinster Leader for 138 million quid and who presided over the collapse of the Johnston Press share price to a level of five pennies?

10. Is downsizing the appropriate way to deal with an economic downturn?

11. At what point, given that your old Chief Executive oversaw the deal to buy the Leinster Leader for 138 million quid, at what point would it become appropriate to downsize such a fellow?

12. Your new Chief Executive John Fry formerly headed up a publisher called Archant which isn't doing particularly well at the moment. Is Fry being paid out of my pension?

13. At what stage, and at what level of incompetence would you consider downsizing a Chief Executive?

14. Can senior management figures at the Johnston Press ever be downsized say in the event of them causing a new ice age or something?

15. What motivates people like you to purchase independently trading centuries old newspapers using money borrowed from idiot banks?

16. What class of people are you?

17. Are you accountable to God?

18. Do you go to church?

19. Have you no shame?

20. How dare you?