Perhaps it’s the many years of drinking mediocre claret. Conceivably, I overdid it on the consumption of the ‘63s - Warres in particular. Her Ladyship would suggest my eager embrace of the Cornish pasty or fondness for a Roast Haunch with Rowanberry… whatever the reason, I can only assume that I have gone completely bonkers.
Why am I the only person in Blighty who thinks Ed Milliband is more dangerous than a Covid-Ebola variation called deadbyxmas.v25
Perhaps I am being delusional, but that would imply that my recent awareness of how bad the situation has become was also imagined. As a chum or even a subscriber (and I think of you all as chums!), try to be helpful and help me make sense of these facts. What should I make of them?
Over the last eight or so months, we have seen Ineos close Ethanol production at Grangemouth (500 jobs), Airbus cut production (500 jobs), JCB (230 jobs), Dyson (600 UK jobs), Stellantis, aka Vauxhall, close Luton (1100 jobs), and Port Talbot (2000 jobs). But Labour has an “industrial strategy”.
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