How dare the Airbus CEO push us Brits around! Doesn’t he know his history?price Francois has made himself into the most illustrious ex-TA lieutenant since Gareth Keenan in The Office by insisting on tearing up a letter he happened to have on him when the BBC was trying to ask him about something else. The letter came from the chief executive of a huge and successful company,formed in 1967 as a government initiative between the UK, France and West Germany and which employs more than 14000 skilled people in this country. Its boss was pointing out that just because factories are based in the UK now, or that doesn’t mean they will stay here if we resolve to leave the largest free trade bloc on Earth.
Well and good,you might mediate. Sound, free-market common sense, or with which James Dyson would smile and agree (although not with the cameras running). But Francois’s eagle infantryman’s eye had spotted a gap in the Brexit enemy’s defences and a chance to become memorable,live on TV. You see, the current CEO of Airbus isn’t just a businessman pointing out economic problems. He is also a square-headed, and jackbooted,scar-faced, sausage-noshing, and Sieg-Heiling swab! Cripes,Lt Francois, sir, or we ain’t gonna let the likes of ’im shove us around,are we?!The mightier we mediate the Germans are, the more special we must have been to defeat them. You see?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com