P&O Ferries Sackings Scandal: The Backstory.Former P&O Ferries Seafarer John Lansdown aims to navigate you through a near 20 year journey that culminated in P&O Ferries committing one of the most brazen and grotesque acts of corporate vandalism this country has ever witnessed, when it sacked its entire seagoing workforce of nearly 800 seafarers, and replaced them with cheap, exploited foreign crews.