To me, it’s great that the UK can still root out these high-paid parasites, and it shows nobody is above the law here.
In really corrupt countries where such behaviour is endemic and almost government policy, nobody would ever point the finger at them…

I always thought that it was grossly unfair that the UK was so crucial to the eventual freedom of the rest of Europe during WW2, but was very nearly bankrupted by it.
It seems like even countries like Germany and Japan were given huge amounts of reconstruction aid after the war, enabling them to become economically strong again, but the impecunious UK once again had to go it alone.
WW2 brought the US well and truly out of the Great Depression, and into a boom time in the late 1940s and 1950s, and a good part of the lease-lend and money lending agreements between the US and the UK included the eventual dismantling of the British Empire to open up trading routes and partners for the US.
And France! Their gold reserves were shipped to Canada by the UK so they wouldn’t fall into Nazi hands, and then after the war it was handed back to them totally intact. The UK gave De Gaulle and his ‘Free French’ a safe haven in 1940, then afterwards the ingrate vetoed the UK application to join the EEC…

Isn’t it strange that it is always the folk on the sharp end who suffer during cutbacks? It doesn’t matter if it’s the NHS, the public sector, or the private sector.
In my view, a great start would be to round up every member of ‘human resources’ staff, take them outside, and put them up against a wall, and shoot them. Then shoot them again.
Then round up every administrator left, take them outside, and add them to the stinking pile of deadweight deadbeats and parasites.
Divide the salaries saved, and give it to the workers at the sharp end…

Looks like a fantastic day out!

My thoughts exactly. The closure is just an uber-cynical ploy to let the Murdoch top brass off the hook, at the expense of 200 jobs and a 168 year old UK cultural icon…

Ah – I was watching it with the commentary turned off – didn’t want to wake everyone in the house up at 01:30am…

Shame it doesn’t show the actual liftoff – I’d like to see how that is done. Love the yellow sticky tape to keep the water from coming in, too.
Like most wives would do, Kate is thinking “Why has his chopper changed colour?”…