Which company would you close?
If you were given a magic wand to make one of the following 50 companies simply not exist – for the betterment of the UK - which would you pick (in other words, ignore the job loss impact)? The selection includes big name media companies, banks, airlines, retailers and utility companies.
Which company would you make disappear?
Which company would you close?
If you were given a magic wand to make one of the following 50 companies simply not exist – for the betterment of the UK - which would you pick (in other words, ignore the job loss impact)? The selection includes big name media companies, banks, airlines, retailers and utility companies.
Which company would you make disappear?
Results
| 01. Abbey |  | 539 votes (3 %) |
| 02. Alliance & Leicester | | 224 votes (1 %) |
| 03. Asda | | 149 votes (1 %) |
| 04. Barclays | | 448 votes (2 %) |
| 05. BBC | | 502 votes (2 %) |
| 06. BHS | | 110 votes (1 %) |
| 07. BP | | 199 votes (1 %) |
| 08. British Airways | | 646 votes (3 %) |
| 09. British Gas | | 811 votes (4 %) |
| 10. British Telecom | | 948 votes (4 %) |
| 11. BSkyB | | 923 votes (4 %) |
| 12. Carphone Warehouse/TalkTalk | | 507 votes (2 %) |
| 13. Channel 4 | 30 votes (0 %) | |
| 14. Daily Mail | | 1,522 votes (7 %) |
| 15. Daily Telegraph | 22 votes (0 %) | |
| 16. Easyjet | | 122 votes (1 %) |
| 17. EDF Energy | | 138 votes (1 %) |
| 18. E.On | | 147 votes (1 %) |
| 19. Esso | | 113 votes (1 %) |
| 20. Financial Times | 16 votes (0 %) | |
| 21. HSBC | | 364 votes (2 %) |
| 22. Iceland | | 278 votes (1 %) |
| 23. ITV | | 107 votes (1 %) |
| 24. Lloyds/HBOS | | 1,071 votes (5 %) |
| 25. Marks & Spencer | 71 votes (0 %) | |
| 26. Morrisons | 44 votes (0 %) | |
| 27. Nationwide | 60 votes (0 %) | |
| 28. Natwest/RBS | | 874 votes (4 %) |
| 29. Npower | | 322 votes (2 %) |
| 30. O2 | 93 votes (0 %) | |
| 31. Orange | | 185 votes (1 %) |
| 32. Ryanair | | 1,605 votes (8 %) |
| 33. Sainsbury | 36 votes (0 %) | |
| 34. Scottish Power | | 145 votes (1 %) |
| 35. Scottish & Southern | 41 votes (0 %) | |
| 36. Selfridges | 42 votes (0 %) | |
| 37. Somerfield | 85 votes (0 %) | |
| 38. Tesco | | 1,426 votes (7 %) |
| 39. Texaco | | 121 votes (1 %) |
| 40. Topshop | 50 votes (0 %) | |
| 41. The Express | 64 votes (0 %) | |
| 42. The Guardian | | 129 votes (1 %) |
| 43. The Independent | 18 votes (0 %) | |
| 44. The Mirror | | 152 votes (1 %) |
| 45. The Sun | | 4,863 votes (23 %) |
| 46. The Times | 13 votes (0 %) | |
| 47. T-mobile | | 144 votes (1 %) |
| 48. Virgin | | 282 votes (1 %) |
| 49. Vodafone | | 155 votes (1 %) |
| 50. Zara | | 184 votes (1 %) |
21,140 votes received.
We try to use technology to limit voting to one per person. Occasionally, this may erroneously block a few people's votes (eg, from shared offices). Apologies for that.
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