Gordon Brown and Richard Branson are flying off to China today to try and persuade the Chinese sovereign wealth funds to bail out the United Kingdom government from its disastrous exposure to Northern Rock. The Chinese government has been very severe about investing in banks exposed by sub prime lending and dubious business plans, and denied a similar request from Citibank.
Their journey had an inauspicious beginning when an incoming flight from China missed the runway and passengers had to be evacuated down the emergency chutes, closing the southern runway and causing even more chaos than usual at Heathrow; the Leader's chartered plane was delayed. He should have flown business class.
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Business Class, HG
Busybody Class surely.
Nobody can bear his surly, telling everybody what to do, ways, definitely busybody class, S
Now's the chance, while he's out of the country - what a pity the army is in Mönchengladbach.
And I've voted for 'Virgin take away spectacular' on Capitalists@Work Northern Wreck poll, but really it will be Chinese.
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