Carnage Matey!
Sorry to be so subtle (and I mean it, honest). The Hootsmon aka Johnston Press has a fiercely Unionist agenda here in Jockland, despite the fact that the Nats have made some serious improvements to our quality of life - and a few mistakes as well it must be said.
The JP agenda is to preserve their UK advertising revenue at all costs -today they even gave us Scots a free larger than life colour map of the UK for cr*ssake. The same ethos applies to News Corporation. (Google is your ..etc.). They're not going to like it up 'em.
The prominence they and others give to this story is two-fold - flag carrier bowing to financial pressures and cutting back internal routes means Old Blighty is in trouble - even more than Northern Rock.
Scottish= Edinburgh financial red-eyes will have less choice (and there are a lot of them, again check Edinburgh-London business flights.) They cannae go to London when they want. The business argument for a connected UK then founders. See? I told you journalism wasn't easy..
Cheers
M
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